A children’s book author claims that her book, Stocks and Bonds, was uploaded on Scribd without her permission, and has been downloaded over 100 times. Scribd turns pdf files into readily accessible iPaper documents that can open inside a browser. The author talks to school children often about copyright and plagiarism. Justia is providing the case filings here, and making them available via an RSS feed.
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Featured case: Blackwell Publishing v Miller (copyshop and university course readings)
Peter Hirtle’s commentary looks at this Ann Arbor (MI) copyshop case in which the students make the copies of coursepack readings themselves. Interesting discussion that indirect infringement may not apply if the students are not infringing. Thus there must be a claim of direct infringement by the copyshop.
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Featured Case: Author’s Guild v. Google Inc. (Google Book Settlement) #gbs – letters pouring in
Letters are pouring in to the court on the Google Book Settlement case. We are also featuring an interview on the case with a publisher’s viewpoint.
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Featured case: House of Bryant Publications, L.L.C. v. A&E Television Networks – Rocky Top clip
Plaintiffs claim A&E used short clip of “Rocky Top” synchronized in a television program, despite plaintiff’s refusal to grant a license. Defense claims fair use, stating that the clip is only 12 seconds long and is background to a football game filled with ambient noise. The case docket is featured by Justia and the Stanford Fair Use site.
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Featured Case: Peermusic v Motive Force- music publishers sue lyrics wiki
Claims of direct, contributory, vicarious and inducement of copyright infringement filed against a lyrics wiki which allegedly scrapes hundreds of thousands of lyrics and redistributes via facebook and other sites. Stanford Fair Use and Justia feature the case docket including the Aug 24th complaint.
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Legal birds twitter on copyright
We’ve added a twitter feed of lawyers and law professors registered with Legal Birds on copyright. It’s fed with the keywords (copyright OR fair use OR fairuse). It’s on the right side of our home page.
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Google Book Settlement letters to the court
See letters to the court supporting and opposing the settlement http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/new-york/nysdce/1:2005cv08136/273913/#20090807
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Subscribe to key copyright cases via Stanford (courtesy of Justia)
Justia makes court filings available for key copyright cases in district courts at http://news.justia.com/cases/copyright/ #copyright
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E-reserve copyright lawsuit updates
Cambridge University Press v. Patton is a publishers’ suit against a public university that makes electronic copies of course readings available to students without paying royalty fees. #copyright Court docs courtesy of Justia. http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/georgia/gandce/1:2008cv01425/150651/