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Distributors of peer-to-peer file-sharing software can be liable for copyright infringement if there are "affirmative steps taken to foster infringement". Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp. 550 U.S. 437
An example of a copyright waiver is the following: The author of this work hereby waives all claim of copyright (economic and moral) in this work and immediately places it in the public domain; it may be used, distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution or notice to the creator.
Some claims made by industry representatives have been criticized as overestimating the monetary loss caused by copyright infringement. In one example, the RIAA claimed damages against LimeWire totaling $75 trillion – more than the global GDP – with the judge overseeing the case ruling that such claims were "absurd". [98]
Playing a radio broadcast of a copyrighted work at a business was not copyright infringement Radio reception does not constitute a "performance" of copyrighted material. Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop: 533 F.2d 87: 2d Cir. 1976 The essence of infringement lies in taking not a general theme but its particular expression Gilliam v.
The dance-pop song became the anthem of the summer in 2022, peaking at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs charts, according to Billboard.
The copyright notice must also contain the year in which the work was first published (or created), and the name of the copyright owner, which may be the author (including the legal author/owner of a work made for hire), one or more joint authors, or the person or entity to whom the copyright has been transferred.
The court applied the Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison, three-step test to determine whether substantial similarity is met when proving copyright infringement for non-literal elements of software, and it held that Altai's rewritten code did not meet the requirements for copyright infringement, and vacated and remanded the ruling on trade ...
Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. [13] This means that in litigation on copyright infringement, the defendant bears the burden of raising and proving that the use was fair and not an infringement. [30] [31] Thus, fair use need not even be raised as a defense unless the plaintiff first shows (or the defendant concedes) a prima facie case