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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright.

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Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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The Beat (And Cher’s Lawsuit) Go On With New Ruling in Bono Copyright Dispute

Copyright Lately

The court’s March 14 ruling (read here) rejected the defendants’ assertion that copyright terminations served by Bono’s heirs effectively preempted Cher’s state law contract rights. In addition, Cher’s complaint only references copyright termination in the context of Composition Royalties.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms That Parties Can Contractually Shorten Statute of Limitations Period for Copyright Infringement Claims

The IP Law Blog

10, 2023), the Ninth Circuit held that the trial court had properly enforced contractual provisions to find that the Plaintiff’s copyright infringement claims were barred by the agreed-to shortened, statute of limitations period. Evox Productions creates and licenses images of cars. Chrome Data Solutions, LP (filed Feb.

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them. for a ‘lifetime’ license. You agree that as a condition of your license, you will not: i. Copyright Law and DRM. Still, here’s the relevant section.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

In that apology, Butz admitted he was “clearly ignorant about copyright laws and got defensive when it was brought to my attention.” Three years later, she licensed one of those photos of Vanity Fair who, with permission, commissioned a new work based on it by Andy Warhol.

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Copyright Infringement and Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendants

The IP Law Blog

In 2014, Lang Van sued VNG for copyright infringement. In 2016, the Ninth Circuit reversed that decision and ordered the district court to allow Lang Van to conduct discovery directed at jurisdictional issues. The Court also found it significant that VNG had “contracted with U.S. law and, at the very least, affect U.S.