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Nintendo Sues Emulator Gamer Who Streamed Pirated Games Before Release

TorrentFreak

The conclusion of that lawsuit declared that an emulator like Yuzu, that circumvents Nintendo’s technical measures, decrypts Switch games using unauthorized copies of Switch cryptographic keys, allowing games to be played on anything other than a Switch, violates copyright law. And it doesn’t stop there.

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ORIGINALITY IN DATABASE: UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT THRESHOLDS

Intepat

While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law. This raises critical questions: What qualifies as originality in the context of database protection?

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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

Patently-O

For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

A person authorises the use of the space for the transmission, sale, distribution, or display of an unauthorised work unless they know or have good reason to suspect that doing so will result in a copyright violation. The Purpose of copyright. How to prevent copyright infringement. Do not copy anything.

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“What’s Mine Is Not Yours To Give Me”—Nor To Take Without Just Compensation: A New Jersey’s Reaction To Sovereign Immunity, Intellectual Property, & Takings

LexBlog IP

In this case, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a government entity may reproduce, display, and utilize a copyrighted work for its own benefit without paying any compensation to the copyright owner. ” So, the question arises as to whether such “intellectual property” is “private property.” 1073 (2019).

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place.