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unusual facts about copyright law



ClearPlay

The United States Congress passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act that explicitly clarified the copyright laws explaining that someone can personalize the playback of movies, skipping or muting content from playback of a DVD or digital download.

Sione's Wedding

This movie is also well known for a high profile court case over breach of copyright law.

William F. Patry

William F. Patry (born January 1, 1950 in Niskayuna, New York) is an American lawyer specializing in copyright law.


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Anti-copyright

One of the founders of Piratbyrån Rasmus Fleischer argues that copyright law simply seems unable to cope with the Internet, and hence is obsolete.

Authorization

An example is the 2002 'The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe' , which was collected from Stephen Hawking's lectures and published without his permission as per copyright law.

Copiepresse

Copiepresse successfully sued Google in Belgian court, claiming that Google violated copyright law in posting links to and abstracts of articles in Belgian newspapers without permission.

Copyright law of the Russian Federation

Shortly before its demise, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had initiated an omnibus revision of the copyright law of the USSR to adapt it to a market economy.

Copyright law of the United Kingdom

When the current UK copyright law was debated in Parliament, former Prime Minister Lord Callaghan of Cardiff successfully proposed an amendment entitling the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children to indefinitely retain the rights to payments of royalties for performances of Peter Pan.

Flava Works

This case became an important case in copyright law as it shows the boundaries of the safe harbour provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

George Platt Brett, Sr.

In 1927, Brett testified at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the United States House of Representatives about a new national copyright law.

Hector MacQueen

Stetson University College of Law, Florida, appointed him Distinguished International Professor 2007-2009, and he taught European Copyright Law there.

International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law

The International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), formerly International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law, is a review published by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, based in Munich, Germany.

Internet humor

There are definite examples of humor restricted by copyright law on the internet; examples include the Dilbert cartoons of Scott Adams or the newspaper columns of Dave Barry.

MP3.com

Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in the case UMG v. MP3.com, ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3.com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner."

Nimmer

Melville Nimmer, American lawyer and expert in freedom of speech and copyright law.

Roadshow Films v iiNet

This case is important in Australian copyright law because it tests copyright law changes required in the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement, and set a precedent for future law suits about the responsibility of Australian Internet service providers with regards to copyright infringement via their services.

SeeqPod

While similar cases have been filed against YouTube, MP3Tunes.com, Veoh, PornoTube, and Divx/Stage 6, this case is particularly important as it directly tests how copyright law applies to search engines.

United States free speech exceptions

The Supreme Court first held this in Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises (1985), where copyright law was upheld against a First Amendment free speech challenge.

University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law

He has also taught comparative media law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Cyber law at The University of Netherland, Antilles in Curacao, and U.S. Constitutional and copyright law at Shandong University, China.