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  • CoStar Realty Information, Inc. et al v. Centers & Malls, LLC et al
    Maryland District Court
    Copyright
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Plaintiff: CoStar Realty Information, Inc., National Research Bureau, Inc.; Defendant: Centers & Malls, LLC, Robert Galvin, Guys Hays
    Last Docket Report Change Found: July 1, 2009
  • Virgin Records America, Inc v. Thomas
    Jury verdict in favor of RIAA - $222,000 judgment against Minnesota woman for making music files available via Kazaa, despite her denials of doing so.
    Minnesota District Court
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Plaintiff: Virgin Records America, Inc, Capitol Records, Inc, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records and others...; Defendant: Jammie Thomas
    Last Docket Report Change Found: July 1, 2009
  • Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated et al v. Miller
    Plaintiffs allege that defendant Norman Miller d/b/a Excel Test Preparation operates a copy shop near the University of Michigan that allows students to reproduce their own coursepack, which includes journals articles and excerpts from books. Plaintiffs further allege that defendant does not arrange for permission to copy the materials in the coursepacks from the Copyright Clearance Center, INc.
    Michigan Eastern District Court
    Copyright
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Plaintiff: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated, Elsevier, Incorporated, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Sage Publications, Incorporated, John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated; Defendant: Norman Miller, Excel Research Group, LLC
    Last Docket Report Change Found: July 1, 2009
  • The Author's Guild et al v. Google Inc.
    Plaintiffs The Author's Guide. Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman sued Google Inc. for reproducing a digital copy of plaintiffs' works without the copyright holders' permission and in violation of the authors' rights under the copyright laws.
    New York Southern District Court
    Copyright
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Plaintiff: The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc.
    Last Docket Report Change Found: June 25, 2009
  • Universal City Studios Productions LLLP et al v. RealNetworks, Inc. et al
    California Central District Court
    Copyright
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Last Docket Report Change Found: June 30, 2009
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  • Broadcast Music Inc et al
    Massachusetts District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Plaintiff: Broadcast Music Inc, Broadcast Music Inc, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Robert J Ritchie and others... Defendant: Fantasy Island, Inc., DEBORAH LAM, Richard Lung, Waiman LAM
  • Alvarez-Rivon et al v. Cengage Learning, Inc.
    Puerto Rico District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Plaintiff: Ricardo Alvarez-Rivon, Magali Alvarez-Melendez, Conjugal Partnership Alvarez-Alvarez, Unknown Defendants "X", "Y", and "Z" Defendant: Cengage Learning, Inc.
  • Alvarez-Rivon et al v. Cengage Learning, Inc. et al
    Puerto Rico District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Plaintiff: Ricardo Alvarez-Rivon, Magali Alvarez-Melendez, Conjugal Partnership Alvarez-Alvarez Defendant: Cengage Learning, Inc., Unknown Defendants X, Y, Z
  • Broadcast Music, Inc. et al v. Nashville Star Music et al
    Arizona District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Plaintiff: Broadcast Music, Inc., Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Samuel Harper Hogin, Phillip Wayne Barnhart and others... Defendant: Adobe Management Services, L.L.C., Christopher Evenson, Mark Evenson
  • EMI April Music, Inc. et al v. Fat Boyz, Inc. et al
    Wisconsin Western District Court
    Copyrights
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Plaintiff: EMI April Music, Inc., Getarealjob Music, New Don Songs, Hideout Records And Distributers, Inc., Gone Gator Music and others... Defendant: Fat Boyz, Inc., John Dawson, Jason Ricketts
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  • Judge Posner's Copyright Proposal To Save Newspapers -- A Cosmic Paperboy?
    ... s second suggestion, i.e. bar linking to or paraphrasing news articles, potentially could have greater implications. Currently, copyright allows all of us to repeat facts found in books, newspapers and on the Internet if we do not copy the way...
    by Fair Use Blog
  • Recording Industry vs The People passes 3 million visitor mark
    We are pleased to report that "Recording Industry vs. The People" has passed the 3 million visitor mark. Since we began counting, we have had 3,027,314 visitors, and 4,343,631 page views. We presently average 2000 visitors a day. Thank you all for...
    by Recording Industry vs The People
  • Intersting development in Georgia State case
    The copyright infringement lawsuit brought against Georgia State University by three major publishers has been in a relatively quiet phase recently. Discovery, the process of gathering evidence and deposing witnesses, can be very dramatic, in fact,...
    by Scholarly Communications @ Duke
  • Using Posters from Cultural Revolution
    ... unclear whether this would provide protection for the posters. In any case. it's difficult to imagine the enforcement of copyright in Cultural Revolution posters -- whether produced by the government or independently by local Chinese artists --...
    by Noloâ?™s Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Blog
  • Is BNN Trying To Silence Copyright Debate?
    So asks CCER, which has a post on how the Business News Network appears to have selectively issued notice and takedown notifications on segments involving debate on Canadian copyright.
    by Michael Geist's Blog
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