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Patent Poetry: Fourth Circuit Overturns $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Verdict

JD Supra Law

The Fourth Circuit has overturned a $1 billion verdict in a copyright case against Cox Communications. As the court explained, Defendant Cox Communications sells internet, telephone, and cable television service to 6 million homes and businesses across the United States.

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“El TORO LOCO”: when a Monster truck show amounts to both trade mark and copyright infringement

The IPKat

This time, this Kat has found a recent decision issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris in a dispute concerning both copyright and trade mark infringement. is the organizer of televised motor sport events called "Monster Jam". The court first tackled trademark infringement.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

However, if such streaming of copyrighted music is done without obtaining license from the copyright holder, then it amounts to copyright infringement. Hence, licensed broadcasting of copyrighted music does not give rise to copyright infringement. In the case of Super Cassettes Industries Pvt.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

However, if such streaming of copyrighted music is done without obtaining license from the copyright holder, then it amounts to copyright infringement. Hence, licensed broadcasting of copyrighted music does not give rise to copyright infringement. In the case of Super Cassettes Industries Pvt.

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Truth or Fiction.or Copyright Infringement?

JD Supra Law

Author Denise Shull lost her challenge to the Showtime television show Billions, which she claims copied the character bearing her name in Shull’s book Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk.

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SPARKS Piracy Bust: Extradited Brit Pleads Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

Berman yesterday, the 52-year-old pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement for his role in the SPARKS conspiracy. After an extradition process that took nearly a year, he was eventually extradited to the United States to face criminal charges. Bridi Pleads Guilty. During a hearing before Judge Richard M.

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“Inducing” Copyright Infringement in Canada: Is it a Thing?

IPilogue

Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? The defendants had been retailing pre-loaded set-top boxes that gave viewers unauthorized access to television broadcast and cable programming in which the plaintiffs owned or controlled the copyright. Lieberman, Christopher G.