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Software Company Still Fighting U.S. Navy Over Millions in Piracy Damages

TorrentFreak

Government regularly goes after copyright-infringing companies and individuals, both domestically and abroad. That doesn’t mean that there are no copyright issues within its own ranks. At the United States Court of Federal Claims, the German company accused the US Navy of mass copyright infringement.

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Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages

TorrentFreak

Six years ago, the US Navy was sued for mass copyright infringement and accused of causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. The goal was to establish what the Navy would have paid for the software licenses if an agreement had been reached. The damages figure is based on 635 unique users and a license fee of $200.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. This form of web scraping began to fall out of favor in 2011 following a series of Google search updates that de-prioritized scraped websites.

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The De Minimis Concept in Copyright Cases – The Ninth Circuit Says What it is and What it Isn’t

The IP Law Blog

Wilmott Storage Services, LLC , decided September 9, 2021, the Ninth Circuit clarified the role that the de minimis concept plays in copyright infringement cases. In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work.

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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? What happens when a copyright infringement claim is made against the playwright? The book addresses questions of whom is the author and first owner of a dramatic work? In what circumstances can a director or actor be granted joint-authorship with the writer? And Who Owns It?

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A Win for Users’ Rights: Supreme Court Finds Access Copyright Tariff Not Mandatory and End-User Perspective Must be Considered in Fair Dealing Analyses

IPilogue

On July 30, the Supreme Court of Canada released their much-anticipated judgement in York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) [ York University ]. On December 23, 2010, the Copyright Board granted Access Copyright an interim tariff at the rate of $3.38 Background.

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Publishers: Internet Archive’s Sales Data Demand is “Burdensome and Irrelevant”

TorrentFreak

Last June, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement , describing its ‘Open Library’ as operating like a pirate site. Publishers Respond to Internet Archive’s Request. IA’s demand for this massive data rests on no coherent foundation.