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Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

Copyright Lately

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Fair Use Shields Google in Its Copyright Battle with Oracle

The IP Law Blog

Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages. In designing the mobile platform, Google independently developed most of the code but copied what the parties referred to as “declaring code” for 37 application programming interfaces, or APIs.

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“The Copyright Case of the Century”: Final Settlement between Google and Oracle on API Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

The decade-long dispute between Google and Oracle over computer code’s copyrightability finally came to an end on April 5, 2021. copyright law. It is arguably, as Stanford law professor Mark Lemley coined it, “ the copyright case of the century. ” . The case meandered through constant reversals of judicial judgements.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. HLG ultimately filed suit for copyright infringement.

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Copyright Infringement Case: Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.

Intepat

Android even though they developed their own run time environment independent of Java, used 37 API calls that are similar to Java API and literally copied 11,500 lines of code deemed central to Java. The jury, in this case, held that the re-implementation of 37 Java APIs was protected by fair use.

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HIT NETFLIX CONTENT AND THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT THAT FOLLOWS

JIPL Online

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States. SETTLEMENT CASES.

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First Circuit Says Mirroring Qualifies for Section 230–Monsarrat v. Newman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In response, Newman, the community moderator, copied all of the community’s posts and uploaded them to Dreamwidth–an action we used to call “mirroring” in the old days. ” Copyright. Nevertheless, the registration is worthless because Newman qualifies for fair use. ” Nature of Use.

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