Intellectual Property Law in Cyberspace, Second Edition, 2015 Cumulative Supplement - Softcover

G. Peter Albert; Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617466468 ISBN 13: 9781617466465

Publisher: Bloomberg BNA, 2015

Synopsis

New in the 2015 Cumulative Supplement A ruling finding a transformative fair use in a web crawler in Fox News v. TVEyes, where TVEyes created a database indexing and excepting every television news broadcasts information that cannot otherwise by gathered and searched; A decision in in Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google Inc. finding Google Books, a service that reproduces sections of copyrighted works so that users may perform searches of the material, to be sufficiently transformative to satisfy that element of the fair use defense; A discussion of the Copyright Office s sixth rulemaking to designate classes of works that will be exempt from the prohibitions against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works when such circumvention occurs to engage in non-infringing uses of works in the designated classes; The court in Capitol Records, LLC v. Escape Media Group provided much needed clarification of the bounds of an appropriate repeat infringer policy; A decision determining that the transformative use by West and Lexis of attorneys briefs posted in their online database after conversion into text-searchable files, addition of editorial information, unique identifiers, and links was a fair use in White v. West Publ g Corp.; A new topic on pre-1972 recordings reviewed a trio of cases in courts on either side of the country which evaluated whether common law copyrights prohibit both the reproduction and public performance of these recordings; the owners of pre-1972 sound recordings are leading two-to-one against the broadcasters in challenging the broadcasters decision to not pay royalties for broadcasting pre-1972 recordings; The Fourth Circuit ruling in Radiance Foundation v. NAACP that the provision of mere information services without any commercial or transactional component could not meet the use in commerce element, and that the use of the marks at issue was too attenuated from the donation solicitation and the billboard campaign to support Lanham Act liability; A new topic on the transition from operating the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function pursuant to a contract with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to a regime of independent, private governance under the supervision of a global multistakeholder community; Action by ICANN to implement a new Trademark Clearinghouse whereby trademark owners can pay ICANN to register exact matches of their trademark, which is designed to gives owners a number of qualified procedural protections; A ruling by the Eleventh Circuit that the functionality of a software program was not entitled to trade secret protection under the Georgia Trade Secrets Act even though the program was password protected in Warehouse Solutions, Inc. v. Integrated Logistics, LLC; And more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomberg BNA
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1617466468
• ISBN 13: 9781617466465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300