by Ted Sabety | Jun 28, 2021 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
June 22, 2021. In a long-running case regarding Sarah Brightman’s album A Winter Symphony, the producer of the album had sued YouTube in Germany for copyright infringement, alleging that the album had been distributed by YouTube without authorization and further, that...
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 | Jan 21, 2021 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
January, 2021. The DOJ has concluded that the ancient anti-trust consent decrees that permit ACSCAP, BMI and other Performing Rights Organizations to issue blanket song copyright licenses should be left untouched – despite the document listing all of the current...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 27, 2020 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
Beware Software Vendors! Blackbeard Strikes Again via the U.S. Supreme Court. March 23, 2020, A videographer that documented the salvaging of Blackbeard’s sunken vessel found off of the Carolina coast sued the State of North Carolina for copyright infringement...