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Copyright Content & Platforms – This Week’s Odds & Ends
Fear the Walking Dead. Popularity and piracy go hand in hand. The most tormented television shows are Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. In many instances, episodes of those…
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Validity of California Resale Royalty Act Faces Another Court Challenge
By Eric Hiatt
The validity of the California Resale Royalty Act (the “RRA,” Civil Code Section 986), a 1976 law that requires resellers of fine art to pay a royalty of 5 percent…
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Upcoming Federal Circuit Decision Presents Opportunity for Clarification of Patentable Subject Matter
Since Alice,[1] consistently defining the bounds of statutory subject matter in computer arts confounds even the most experienced attorneys. E-commerce software combining visual elements of multiple parties’ websites is patent…
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Russia’s Primary Social Network in Hot Water Again Over Failure to Police Infringement
Russia’s Facebook, vKontakte, is under fire for its allegedly poor handling of pervasive copyright infringement on its platform (literally translated from Russian, “v kontakte” means “in contact”). The Association for…
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Federal Circuit Tasked With Analyzing Evidence For Proof That Defendant Had the State of Mind Necessary For Induced Infringement
On January 19, 2016, the Supreme Court issued a grant-vacate-remand order in a dispute between rival medical device companies Medtronic and NuVasive. The order directs the Federal Circuit to revisit…
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Bitcoin Is “Property,” Rules California Judge in Pivotal Bitcoin Case
Last week, we blogged about the latest development in Bitcoin news: how a California bankruptcy court will define Bitcoin. That was the subject of a trustee’s clawback suit against Marc…
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Data Valuation – Worth Zero or Trillions?
By Judy Selby
Almost every entity is, or is becoming, a digital enterprise. Today’s information economy mandates nothing less. Entities are making tremendous investments in order to exploit the vast amounts of data…
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Copyright Content Platforms – This Weeks Odds & Ends
A Loss for FilmOn. FilmOn.com Inc., a company that offers a service identical to the one held infringing by the Supreme Court in Aereo, tried to argue that it should…
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Timberlake & Will.I.Am Sued by Disco Artist’s Estate
In a new case that is sure to draw comparisons to the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit, Justin Timberlake and Will.I.Am have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit from the estate…
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Sandoz Requests Supreme Court Review of the Federal Circuit’s Interpretation of Biosimilar Law
By Ron Kern
On February 16, 2016, Sandoz Inc. filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to review the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of the…