by Ted Sabety | Sep 25, 2015 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
There is a new impediment for copyright owners trying to police the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in user-generated online content, especially videos. The Federal appeals court Ninth Circuit ruled in Lenz v. Universal Music that a copyright owner has to...
by Ted Sabety | Aug 25, 2015 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
The judiciary has breathed life back into innumerable computer-related patent claims that were considered moribund. The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit reversed its precedent regarding whether a computer method claim, where some steps are performed by one party...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 14, 2015 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
Are Pharrell and Thicke $7 Million dollars (plus legal fees) poorer and the heirs of Marvin Gaye that much richer (minus legal fees)? Don’t be so sure. In the copyright infringement case making the news, where a jury decided the song “Blurred Lines” was an infringing...
by Ted Sabety | Feb 28, 2015 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
The Federal Communications Commission by a vote of 3-2 just released its new “net neutrality” regulations. The earth-shaking decision is that the F.C.C.’s order “reclassifies ‘broadband Internet access service’… as a ‘telecommunications service’ under Title II.” That...
by Ted Sabety | May 9, 2014 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit has significantly strengthened U.S. copyright protection of computer programs. The Court reversed and remanded the Oracle v. Google case. Oracle sued Google alleging that the Android platform infringed its copyrights in the...
