2014 Copyright Infringement Due Diligence 
Copyright Lately
MAY 10, 2024
That’s because it does away with a nationwide split among appellate courts, including a 2020 ruling by the influential Second Circuit Court of Appeals that limited copyright infringement damages to three years before the filing of a lawsuit, even if the plaintiff had been unaware of earlier infringements.
Patently-O
MAY 9, 2024
2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. 507(b)’s requirement that copyright infringement lawsuits be “commenced within three years after the claim accrued,” a discovery rule has long been considered applicable in copyright cases.
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SpicyIP
OCTOBER 20, 2023
passed an order interpreting the scope of this safeguard, reiterating that the right of the plaintiff to initiate actions against the “groundless threats” under Section 60 would be terminated in light of a separate suit by the defendant alleging copyright infringement, even if filed subsequent to the Section 60 suit.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 15, 2024
If the Supreme Court upholds the discovery rule for copyright cases, or simply declines to address it, the decision will leave copyright defendants exposed to very large awards for years of infringing conduct (as they have been everywhere but the Second Circuit). 1962 (2014). 2014) (collecting cases). 663, 134 S.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JULY 25, 2022
In so holding, the Ninth Circuit created (or widened) a circuit split with the Second Circuit, which previously held that even under the discovery rule, damages for copyright infringement are limited to “a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed.” 1962 (2014), the U.S. 2014) (collecting cases).
Kluwer Copyright Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Section 95a UrhG stipulates that technical measures employed for the protection of a copyrighted work or protected subject matter may not be circumvented without the authorisation of the rightholder, Section 95a UrhG being the transposition into German law of Article 6 of the InfoSoc Directive (2001/29). Claims under copyright law.
IP Tech Blog
MARCH 18, 2022
Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Although NFTs have been around since 2014, their far-reaching, multi-layered legal implications are just now being recognized.
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