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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

A person authorises the use of the space for the transmission, sale, distribution, or display of an unauthorised work unless they know or have good reason to suspect that doing so will result in a copyright violation. The Purpose of copyright. How to prevent copyright infringement. Recognize the subtleties of fair use.

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place.

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“What’s Mine Is Not Yours To Give Me”—Nor To Take Without Just Compensation: A New Jersey’s Reaction To Sovereign Immunity, Intellectual Property, & Takings

LexBlog IP

In this case, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a government entity may reproduce, display, and utilize a copyrighted work for its own benefit without paying any compensation to the copyright owner. ” So, the question arises as to whether such “intellectual property” is “private property.” 1073 (2019).