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Supreme Court: Bank Can Terminate Contract Over Lacking Anti-Piracy Measures

TorrentFreak

File-hosting platform 1fichier.com appeared around 2009 and since then has seen no shortage of copyright complaints. Trade Representative as a notorious piracy market. Socit Gnrale terminated its contract with 1fichier in 2015 due to concerns over piracy. Most recently, it was highlighted by the U.S.

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CMA Releases Report on Music Streaming Market

IPilogue

On November 29th, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released its final report of its market study into music and music streaming. Moreover, competition between music streaming services and the digitization of the market improved consumer outcomes greatly, though creators still had concerns about their earnings from streaming.

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YouTube Isn’t Liable for User Uploads of Animal Abuse Videos–Lady Freethinker v. YouTube

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Thus, Lady Freethinker sued YouTube for breach of contract and related claims. (A Same thing with the Lori Drew prosecution from 2009). Both the breach of contract and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing causes of action, for instance, are predicated on YouTube “allowing hundreds of animal abuse videos.”

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Copyright and the Digital First Sale Doctrine: A Comparative Review

Intepat

Such a doctrine is the cornerstone for secondary markets such as libraries, used bookstores, and places for selling used CDs and DVDs. The case involved the organization called ReDigi, an online market where users can resell digital music files they have bought legally. Section 109 of 17 U.S.C., ReDigi Inc.

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Game On! Bright Data Scores Major Victory in Web-Scraping Dispute with Meta (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Then he reversed course on remand and ruled in favor of LinkedIn on its breach of contract claims. On January 23rd, Judge Chen once again dropped a bombshell for the web-scraping world (and those looking to stop it) by ruling in favor of Bright Data and against Meta on its breach of contract claims at summary judgment. Bright Data Ltd.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression?

SpicyIP

The same, in its submission did not intend to impinge on the market of the Plaintiff. While terminating the contract, the Plaintiff had informed Defendant of the terms of termination, which inter alia provided that using Plaintiff’s content without a license would now constitute infringement. In Academy of General Education, Manipal v.

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