Latest United States copyright law Stories
Five American universities participating in a program to digitize books are being sued by authors in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia, claiming that they have obtained unauthorized scans of millions of copyright-protected manuscripts, various media outlets reported Tuesday. Telegraph reporter Nick Allen reports that the lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan, claims that the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, the University of California, Indiana University...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Ecrivaines et des Ecrivains Quebecois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University. Plaintiff authors include children's book author and illustrator Pat Cummings, novelists Angelo...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National non-profit Future of Music Coalition (FMC) ( http://futureofmusic.org ), which focuses on education, research and advocacy for musicians, launched the next phase of its ambitious Artist Revenue Streams project today with a detailed online survey for musicians and composers. The survey can be taken at http://futureofmusic.org/ars and is available until October 28, 2011. The survey is one part of a multi-method research effort to assess how...
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Neology, a pioneer of passive RFID technology today announced it has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Federal Signal and Sirit, a unit of Federal Signal Technologies Group, for patent infringement of multiple claims in six Neology patents. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110802/LA46390LOGO) The lawsuit demands that Federal Signal and related companies immediately and permanently stop directly or indirectly making, using,...
The Copyright Law Group, based in Fairfax, Virginia, assists those who are implicated in copyright infringement. The representation involves filing subpoenas to prevent the disclosure of a user's identity, litigation, and possibly resolving the matter out of court. Fairfax, VA (PRWEB) July 29, 2011 Law firms are conducting wide-ranging litigation and other enforcement campaigns against those who download movies and other copyrighted works without permission. News reports claim that...
NEW YORK, July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- I Wanna Be On®, the innovative social media research and production company, is reaching out to copyright holders for them to consider granting an innovative literary license that will allow new uses for their characters and related creative elements into derivative entertainment and media projects. Vincent Presti, a practicing attorney, has recently noticed a surge in copyright litigation regarding permissible and impermissible parody uses of...
NEWARK, N.J., July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A copyright infringement lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey-Newark against Grammy-winning R&B artist and songwriter John Legend in connection with his 2006 album Once Again and his song Maxine's Interlude, which has enjoyed consistent sales and been publicly performed by Legend continuously since its initial release that year. (Docket number 2:11-cv-03849-SDW - MCA, United States District Court, District of...
ARLINGTON, Va., June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the April 2011 Supplement to Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Regulations.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090105/56509LOGO) The main volume of Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Regulations is a convenient loose-leaf compilation of all the intellectual property regulations found in C.F.R. Volume 37, plus extra...
LOS ANGELES, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A coalition of artists in music and film have sued CBS Interactive Inc. and CNET Networks, Inc. for mass-scale copyright infringement today in Los Angeles federal court. This lawsuit is based on the defendants' direct participation in massive copyright infringement on peer-to-peer ("P2P") systems, such as LimeWire, that are used to copy and distribute songs, films and other artistic works. LimeWire and its principals have already been found...
The founder of LimeWire, a music file-sharing service that was shut down last year due to copyright infringement, settled a lawsuit brought by dozens of music publishers. The settlement covers more than 30 publishers, including Arista, BMG Music, EMI Group, Interscope, Sony Corp, Virgin and Warner Bros. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. "A settlement was reached," a spokeswoman for the National Music Publishers Association told Reuters. "The parties worked hard to achieve a...
