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Software Company Still Fighting U.S. Navy Over Millions in Piracy Damages

TorrentFreak

It all started in 2011 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ After some testing, the Navy installed the software across its network, assuming that it had permission to do so. 600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. ” 579 ‘Infringing’ Copies.

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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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Dropbox’s TOS Amendment Fails (And If This Opinion Stands, Yours Will Too)–Sifuentes v. Dropbox

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Sifuentes got a Dropbox account in 2011. Dropbox says it has amended its TOS twelve times since 2011, including adding the arbitration clause in 2014. [NB: That would be a legal fiction, but most online contract formation law is predicated on similar fictions). Qwest Gets Mixed Rulings on Contract Arbitration Issue—Grosvenor v.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim. This form of web scraping began to fall out of favor in 2011 following a series of Google search updates that de-prioritized scraped websites.

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UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

The IPKat

On the other hand, the debate around TDM has not developed in a context devoid of licensing practices, at least in Europe. It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law.

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The Supreme Court Limits the Extraterritorial Reach of the Lanham Act

LexBlog IP

In 2006, Hetronic entered distribution and licensing agreements with Hydronic Steuersysteme GmbH (later purchased by Abitron Austria GmbH). In 2011, Hydronic began reverse-engineering Hetronic parts and contracted new suppliers to source them. The Court first asked if the statute explicitly applies to foreign conduct.

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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association or the copyright holder. 21 In a 2011 survey conducted by the U.S. Published in Landslide , Vol.