Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York recently denied a motion to dismiss in a copyright dispute involving the unlicensed “embedding” of a social media video. In doing so, the court explicitly and definitively...more
8/16/2021
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Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
IP License ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Online Platforms ,
Online Videos ,
Popular ,
Right of Reproduction ,
Social Media ,
The Copyright Act ,
Web Servers ,
Websites
In a narrowly drawn, yet significant decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and ruled that Google LLC’s (“Google”) copying of some of the Sun Java Application Programming Interface (API) declaring code was a...more
4/9/2021
/ Application Programming Interface (APIs) ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Fair Use ,
Google ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
IP License ,
Java ,
Oracle v Google ,
Software Developers ,
Transformative Use