by Ted Sabety | Apr 5, 2021 | Information Technology & Enterprise Software Procurement, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation, Software Procurement & Licensing
April 5, 2021. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. 593 U.S. __(2021). We wrote last year about the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle over Java computer language and its potential to create copyright over a computer language. The US Supreme Court handed...
by Ted Sabety | Sep 9, 2019 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
Court in California Forgets about the Doctrine of Scènes à Faire in Copyright Law and finds Copyright in a Musical “Function.” In a bizarre case alleging copyright infringement by a pop-star, Marcus Gray et al v. Katy Perry et al, 2:15-cv-05642-CAS-JC, (C.D.C.A.) a...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 27, 2018 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
U.S. Court of Appeals Guts Google’s “Fair Use” Defense against Oracle’s Copyright Infringement Claim March 27, 2018 The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, reviewing the long record in this case in a 58-page opinion, concluded that Google’s copying was a...
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...