Earlier this week we found out that JK Rowling and Warner Brothers were successful in their copyright infringement case against RDR Books for their planned publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon, an encyclopedia about all things Harry Potter.
Everyone was quick to discuss the decision, including The NY Times, WSJ, TechDirt, Stanford Law School, The Berkman [...]
Judge Howard Lloyd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a copyright infringement case against Veoh, a video sharing site, ruling that the DMCA does not require such sites from reviewing the content they host for potential infringement. The judge said, “The DMCA was intended to facilitate the growth [...]
Last week the EFF achieved a victory against Universal Music when a judge ruled that Universal should have considered fair use before filing a DMCA take-down notice for the infamous Prince/baby-dancing video.
Because Universal Music reviewed the baby-dancing video in order to identify “Let’s go crazy” playing, the judge noted “that it wasn’t any sort of [...]
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