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This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. The key issue on appeal is whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment for Crocs on Double Diamond Distribution and U.S.A. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions.
The court found that three out of four fair use factors i.e. the purpose and character of the use, the amount and substantiality of the portion used, and the effect on the potential market, weighed in favor of fair use (with the remaining factor, i.e. the nature of the copyrighted work, being considered neutral and favoring neither party).
However, with the publication on 23 October 2012 of UAE Federal Law No. 4 of 2012 Concerning Regulation of Competition all businesses with operations in the UAE or supplying goods and services to the UAE market will have to ensure that they focus on and comply with the provisions of this new law. A GCC Trademark Law was issued in 2006.
At the same time, however, Article 6 of the Term Directive ( Directive 2006/116/EC ) also states that “Member States may provide for the protection of other photographs” and thus leaves to each Member State’s own discretion the decision of whether to provide some protection to non-original photographs in addition to “original” ones.
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vii] The Battle for the PublicDomain and Traditional Knowledge 2006, 5 Doris Estelle Long Intellectual Property Law: Volume 321 of the John Marshall Review. In the end, this method of TK control would likewise be in line with this notion. vi] United Nations University, 2015, pp.
Also in its amended opinion, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Google , the court placed newfound emphasis on the consideration of the “public benefits” the copying will likely produce as part of its analysis of the fourth fair use factor—the effect of the use on the market for the original. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th 17 U.S.C. §
Addressing Factor 4, it asserted there was little or no market harm, because “time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see … a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge.” ( Id. Arguably little to no market harm, at least not until remote controls and commercial-skipping became popular.)
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