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By Jon Baumgarten and Noah Gitterman, Proskauer Rose LLP The emergence of "cloud computing" products and services is drawing considerable attention in legal circles. In the copyright arena, it is taking the form of infringement issues pertaining...

In this Emerging Issues commentary, Thomas C. Carey, a partner at Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP, discusses a recent federal court case, MGE UPS Sys. v. GE Consumer & Indus., 612 F.3d 760 (5th Cir. Tex. 2010) , and its revised opinion, MGE...

By Jeff Neuburger of Proskauer Rose LLP Righthaven LLC is an intellectual property enforcement firm that was formed by a group of copyright attorneys and Stephens Media , the publisher of the Law Vegas Review-Journal. The company has been making a...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A "general awareness" of infringing activity on its Web site is not sufficient to find YouTube Inc. guilty of any copyright infringement claims, a New York federal judge ruled June 23, granting the online video-sharing...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A New York federal judge's determination that YouTube LLC is entitled to safe harbor immunity from copyright infringement claims was largely vacated April 5 by the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which found that a...

Viacom lost its $1 billion lawsuit against Google and YouTube for alleged copyright infringement when a judge granted summary judgment. YouTube's defense was that it used the "safe harbor" protection of the Digital Millennium Copyright...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A "general awareness" of infringing activity on its Web site is not sufficient to find YouTube Inc. guilty of any copyright infringement claims, a New York federal judge ruled June 23, granting the online video-sharing...

Yesterday, the Second Circuit issued an opinion clarifying the contours of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) safe harbor for online service providers. 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) limits liability for copyright infringement that occurs "by...

In this Emerging Issues commentary, Thomas C. Carey, a partner at Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP, discusses a recent federal court case, MGE UPS Sys. v. GE Consumer & Indus., 612 F.3d 760 (5th Cir. Tex. 2010) , and its revised opinion, MGE...

On the surface, the 2d and 9th Circuits appear to be in harmony regarding the standards in measuring the availability of the DMCA safe harbor to on-line service providers. Each agrees that failing to take down infringing content, despite awareness of...