Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal copyright law»
This site is protected under both U.S. Federal copyright law and international treaties.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. — An Internet company offering inexpensive live broadcast television feeds to computers, tablets and smartphones doesn't violate U.S. copyright law, a divided federal appeals court said Monday.
NAFTA is just as insufficient for the American innovation economy as it is for the Canadian, which is why U.S. policy - makers are busy making major amendments to federal copyright law to ensure that the profits generated by its creative content keep flowing.
The suit, filed in Albany in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, cites a ruling in that jurisdiction earlier this year that the disclosure provisions of the state's pioneering «truth - in - testing» law are in direct conflict with federal copyright law.
The opinion by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a 2016 jury decision that Google's usage of the code was fair use under copyright law.
Judge Otis D. Wright II set his literary phasers to «kill» in entering an order sanctioning four lawyers $ 81,000 and referring them not only to their respective state and federal bars for discipline, but also referring the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Internal Revenue Service for criminal investigation.1 The lawyers in question (three of whom were principals in Prenda Law, a copyright «troll» purporting to hold the copyrights to a number of pornographic films) pursued illegal porn downloaders and offered to settle copyright infringement claims for $ 4,000 each.
Stated differently, rights provided by copyright law are governed by federal law, not state contracting or licensing law: Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel, Co., (1964) 376 U.S. 225; Compco Corp. v. Day - Brite Lighting, Inc., (1964) 376 U.S. 234, 237; Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd., 847 F. 2d 255, 270 (5th Cir.
2) Early U.S. case law suggests that federal copyright law pre-empts any attempt by state contracting or licensing law to restrict or modify the federal copyright law.