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InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Orphan Works Appeal Ninth Circuit rules 'no compelling reason' for First Amendment review of copyright law.  |
Investment Advisor May 2007 |
The U.S. Court of Appeals Decision A PDF of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's ruling on the Financial Planning Association vs. The Securities and Exchange Commission.  |
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Entertainment Industry Looks For Supreme Relief The entertainment industry filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to get a definitive ruling whether software companies should be allowed to create software used to facilitate pirating copyrighted material.  |
Wired Scott Brown |
Scott Brown on Sherlock Holmes, Obsessed Nerds, and Fan Fiction Well over a century after Sherlock Holmes died, Holmes-based fan fiction is still being churned out  |
Searcher September 2012 Peter B. Hirtle |
Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit.  |
InternetNews April 6, 2010 |
Court Voids FCC's Comcast Net Neutrality Order Federal appeals court strikes down FCC's order rebuking Comcast for blocking traffic on its network, issuing a landmark ruling that casts a long shadow over the commission's role in broadband policy.  |
Managed Care December 2000 |
2 Federal Courts Differ Concerning External Appeals Almost 40 states have laws giving health plan members the right to seek external review of denials of coverage. Conflicting federal court rulings about states' authority to bind health plans to external review decisions have put their constitutionality in question...  |
InternetNews July 1, 2005 Erin Joyce |
Click Here For Inducement Disclaimers The Supreme Court's ruling that P2P technology developers can induce users to steal copyrighted works could be extended to search services that in effect publicize those P2P services.  |
InternetNews January 5, 2005 Roy Mark |
Court Rejects DMCA Subpoena Process ... Again Decision upholds earlier ruling that music industry must use traditional subpoenas in P2P legal wars.  |
Information Today November 13, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Tasini Case In September 1999, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, in New York, reversed a lower-court decision and ruled that it's copyright infringement for a publisher to put a freelancer's work online or reuse or resell it without explicit permission...  |
InternetNews March 12, 2010 |
Microsoft Loses Another Round in i4i Case In latest setback in patent case, appeals court reiterates that Microsoft's infringement was "willful," while both sides wait to see if the court will agree to hear Microsoft's en banc appeal.  |
Information Today January 20, 2003 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years.  |
InternetNews May 16, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Google Wins Infringement Appeal A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that Google did not infringe the copyrights of an adult photo publisher by displaying thumbnails of proprietary pictures in its image search engine.  |
InternetNews September 11, 2009 |
Appeals Court Saves Microsoft $358 Million A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a $358 million damage award against Microsoft in a patent lawsuit is exorbitant, but still found that the software giant had still infringed a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent.  |
OCC Bulletin January 15, 2002 |
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Examiner guidance on the mark-up of settlement services fees by a title company...  |
Managed Care January 2006 John Carroll |
It's To Plans' Benefit To Spell Out Authority Claims administrators have been put on notice by the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that employee benefit plans will need to spell out in precise detail their prerogative in making benefit decisions - or risk losing it.  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Apple To Pay $450 Million In Settlement For Price Fixing E-Books The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan voted 2-1 on Tuesday not to overturn a July 2013 ruling that found Apple had fixed e-book prices in collusion with five major publishing houses.  |
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Now Perfect 10 Sues Microsoft Nude model publisher claims Microsoft's search engine infringes its copyrights by displaying thumbnails of pirated photos.  |
D-Lib August 2008 Peter B. Hirtle |
Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status It is almost impossible to determine with certainty whether a work published from 1923 through 1963 in the US is in the public domain because of copyright restoration of foreign works.  |
InternetNews May 3, 2007 Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Vonage New Trial Bid A federal appeals court late Wednesday rejected Vonage's motion for a new trial in its bitter patent infringement feud with Verizon.  |
Salon.com February 21, 2002 Damien Cave |
Mickey Mouse vs. The People How an antiquarian bookseller and a Nathaniel Hawthorne fan sued Congress and ended up before the Supreme Court...  |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Copyright Copyright constitutes one aspect of intellectual property law; here are five things you may not know about it.  |
Salon.com April 15, 2002 Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong...  |
InternetNews April 8, 2010 |
FCC on Shaky Ground After Comcast Ruling Court's rejection of Federal Communications Commission's order rebuking Comcast for slowing traffic on its network calls into question the agency's authority in the Internet space.  |
Reason December 2004 Julian Sanchez |
Illegal Music A decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit says crafting new musical works from bits and pieces of older songs is infringing.  |
InternetNews August 19, 2004 Roy Mark |
P2Ps Score Landmark Legal Victory Appeals court rebuffs movie and music industry claims that file-swapping developers are liable for copyright infringement.  |
InternetNews October 17, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Lawsuits to Continue Microsoft's past seems to be catching up as two lawsuits against it are cleared to proceed.  |
InternetNews October 12, 2004 Roy Mark |
High Court Bounces Latest RIAA Effort The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected industry's effort to revive a controversial practice that briefly forced ISPs to reveal the identities of thousands of accused peer-to-peer music pirates with no notice to the alleged infringers.  |
Home Theater August 7, 2008 |
Court Upholds Network DVR Cablevision's network DVR isn't illegal, immoral, and fattening after all, a federal appeals court has ruled.  |
InternetNews April 20, 2004 Michael Singer |
Sex Site Settles with VeriSign Federal court says the company's domain registrar division botched a title transfer for Sex.com.  |
InternetNews September 26, 2007 Caron Carlson |
Vonage Dealt Sprint Nextel, Verizon Patent Blows VoIP provider Vonage, in the midst of Verizon appeals, takes a Sprint Nextel patent blow.  |
Investment Advisor July 2007 |
Group Think The Financial Planning Association told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit... The Social Investment Forum reported that investors are filing a record number of social and environmental shareholder resolutions... etc.  |
Salon.com June 23, 2000 Janelle Brown |
Another defeat for "kiddie porn" law Free speech wins again as the COPA is struck down by a court of appeals.  |
Reason January 2006 Jacob Sullum |
Takings, Take 2 State courts, where the battle over eminent domain is now shifting, don't necessarily agree with the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 ruling in Kelo v. New London.  |
InternetNews April 2, 2010 |
eBay Victorious in Trademark Dispute The online auction site dodged a bullet this week after an appellate court found that it did not infringe on Tiffany & Co.'s trademark by enabling the sale of thousands of counterfeit items.  |
Information Today March 31, 2011 George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question.  |
InternetNews June 27, 2005 Roy Mark |
High Court Rules Against P2P The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that peer-to-peer technology developers are legally responsible for the illegal acts of their users.  |
InternetNews April 2, 2010 |
Microsoft Loses Bid for Appeal in i4i Patent Case Court denies Microsoft's long-shot request for a full "en banc" hearing to appeal its patent-infringement loss against the small Toronto firm i4i.  |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Court to Grokster: Download This! Demolishing file-sharers won't solve the media industry's long-term challenges. What's to stop programmers in, say, Estonia, from developing a P2P network? And what other new-fangled technologies will change the industry?  |
InternetNews December 10, 2004 Roy Mark |
MGM, Grokster to go Under Supreme Scope Hollywood hopes the high court will overturn the lower court's decision ruling P2P operations legal.  |
InternetNews March 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
Will High Court Dodge P2P Decision? Analysts say justices could tell lower courts to decide if file-swapping firms actively induce users to infringe.  |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.  |
InternetNews February 13, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Google Ordered to Pay Up in Belgium A Belgian court today reportedly sided with European newspaper publishers, ruling Internet search giant Google must pay fines for violating that country's copyright laws.  |
Information Today February 25, 2002 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Copyright Challenge Case On February 19, the U.S. Supreme Court gave an unexpected, late Valentine surprise to the copyright and publishing communities by agreeing to hear a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act...  |
Search Engine Watch February 20, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Legal Rulings On Image Search & Meta Tags In the right circumstances, image search engines don't violate copyright and using another company's trademarks in meta tags isn't infringement, two separate court cases have found...  |
PC World June 28, 2001 Frank Thorsberg |
Microsoft Faces New Antitrust Trial Appeals court upholds monopoly finding, but sends case to new judge to consider penalties...  |
On Wall Street May 1, 2010 Lauren Barack |
Courts Say You Can Charge Higher Fees, But It Still May Not Be Wise The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision says that while advisors can basically charge what they believe their services are worth, mutual fund investors can demand more clarity from their advisors as to why they may pay more than an institutional investor.  |
InternetNews August 28, 2009 |
Dell, HP Side With Microsoft on Word Appeal Microsoft gained some help this week from its two largest PC partners who asked the court to let them join in the company's Word lawsuit as so-called "friends of the court."  |
InternetNews March 21, 2007 Roy Mark |
VoIP Still on FCC's Open Road A federal appeals court upheld a 2004 FCC ruling that Voice over IP services are interstate in nature and not subject to state public utility regulation. The ruling gives the FCC the responsibility and obligation to decide which regulations apply to Internet telephony.  |
Information Today October 28, 2014 George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers.  |