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Author of Cell Phone Unlocking Petition Makes Final Push for 100K Signatures
""My immediate reaction was to shut down the business," Khanifar wrote, but he started working with Jennifer Granick, founder of Stanford's C…
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The Law Against Unlocking Cellphones Is Anti-Consumer, Anti-Business, and Anti-Common Sense
"In the year after helping me with my case, Jennifer Granick fought for an exemption from the DMCA for unlocking phones, and in November 2006 it was grante…
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DMCA Safe Harbor for Service Providers Also Protects Non-Storage Activities Designed to Facilitate Access to User-Stored Content
Author: Stuart Loh Universal Music Group (“UMG”) sued Veoh Networks, Inc. (“Veoh”), an Internet-based service that allows users to share videos online, for c…
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Considerations When Subpoenaing Customer Information
Author: Stuart Loh The plaintiffs, Echostar Satellite LLC and its related companies ("Echostar"), provide pay-TV programming to their customers via e…
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Interference with "Pay-Per-View" Billing Information Prohibited under Section 553 and DMCA
Author: Morgan Galland Defendants, Jon Chaffee, Amy Chaffee and Ramalda Bou ("Chaffee"), appealed a summary judgment decision of the United States Di…
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Copyright Owners Must Consider the Fair Use Doctrine when Issuing DMCA Takedown Notices
Author: Stuart Loh The plaintiff, Stephanie Lenz, posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her children dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.” Univer…
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Content-Sharing Website Veoh.com Entitled to Safe Harbor Under DMCA
Author: José Mauro Decoussau Machado Io produces, markets, and distributes adult entertainment products. In its lawsuit against Veoh, it maintained that a var…
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Elkin-Koren on Anticircumvention Law and Consumers-as-Participants
Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren has uploaded a paper titled Making Room for Consumer Under the DMCA, to be published soon in the BTLJ. The paper provides a terrific anal…
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Digging the grave for next-generation DVD TPMs?
That a string of digits-and-letters receives the honor to be composed into a song is, I think, a noteworthy development. Sure, copyright law is about fostering…
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District Court Finds Failure to Demonstrate Circumvention of a Technological Measure in DMCA Claim Involving User Detection Feat
Plaintiff Auto Inspection Services, Inc. (“AIS”) owns the copyright to an automotive inspection program (“AIS’s Program”) that contains a quality control featur…
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District Court Finds Failure to Demonstrate Circumvention of a Technological Measure in DMCA Claim Involving User Detection Feat
Plaintiff Auto Inspection Services, Inc. (“AIS”) owns the copyright to an automotive inspection program (“AIS’s Program”) that contains a quality control featur…
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We All Now Wish We Were Film or Media Studies Professors
So, thanks to the Librarian of Congress, film professors and media studies professors can now make a compilation of film clips for class without breaking the la…