Tweet Can you legally re-sell digital goods like the music files you’ve downloaded from iTunes? That was the question in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., 2013 WL 1286134 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 30, 2013). The court held that the resale of copies of digital music files, as facilitated by the defendant’s technology, was not permissible. The …
Tag Archive: Copyright
Nov 07
Twitter Changes DMCA Takedown Policy
Tweet On November 2, 2012, Twitter’s legal policy manager announced (via Tweet) that it changed its response policy to takedown requests pursuant to Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Whereas Twitter previously removed allegedly infringing material (such as Tweets or posted media) identified in a DMCA takedown request without providing any notice …
Jan 03
Open Source Litigation Over “BusyBox”
Tweet The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and a software developer have sued 14 major consumer electronics companies for copyright infringement. The complaint alleges the electronics companies infringed the copyright in ”BusyBox” — a software program that combines computing tools and optimizes them for cell phones, PDAs, and other devices. The software is covered by one of the most widely used open source …
Sep 14
Veoh Wins Copyright Suit
Tweet Universal Music Group’s copyright infringement suit against Veoh has been thrown out by the District Court Judge hearing the case, possibly giving some breathing room to YouTube and other video-sharing websites. Judge A. Howard Matz ruled that Veoh operated in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by expeditiously taking down UMG’s copyrighted materials …
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