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Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. v. American Home Realty Network, Inc.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute between competitors in the real estate listing business over defendant's use of plaintiff's copyrighted material, the district court's...

The Authors Guild Inc. v. Google Inc.

Class Actions, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
The district court's order certifying a plaintiff class of authors claiming that defendant committed copyright infringement by copying and displaying...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum

Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law
Judgment for plaintiff-recording companies in suit alleging defendant illegally downloaded and distributed music is affirmed, where the award to...

Gary Friedrich Enters., LLC v. Marvel Characters, Inc.

Contracts, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
In a copyright infringement action brought by the creator of the comic book character Ghost Rider, the District Court's grant of summary judgment and...

Classic Concepts, Inc. v. Linen Source, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Plaintiff's appeal from a judgment of copyright infringement which awarded plaintiff damages, but denied injunctive relief, is dismissed as untimely,...

VRCompliance LLC v. Homeaway, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trade Secrets
The district court did not abuse its discretion in staying plaintiffs' action seeking declaratory relief that it was not committing violations...

Righthaven LLC v. Hoehn

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
Dismissal of two copyright infringement suits is:1) affirmed in part, where agreements assigning plaintiff the bare right to sue for infringement of...

Cariou v. Prince

Intellectual Property, Copyright
Summary judgment for plaintiff in copyright infringement suit is: 1) vacated in part, where the district court applied the incorrect standard to...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Kirtsaeng

Education Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, International Trade, Media Law
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the "first sale" doctrine provides a defense against a copyright infringement claim based on...