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Establishing Copyright Damages When Party Moves for Summary Judgment

Stan Soocher

Section 504(b) of the Copyright Act allows a copyright owner to obtain both the owner's actual damages as well as an infringer's profits attributable to the infringed work that weren't included in the actual damages award. What are the burdens of proof when a copyright infringement plaintiff seeks this recovery after a pre-trial summary judgment motion has been filed? How does an expert's report work into this?

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Expanding Defenses To Inducing Infringement

Brian Mudge & Ksenia Takhistova

On Oct. 25, 2013, the Federal Circuit, by a vote of six-to-five, denied rehearing <i>en banc</i> in <i>Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Sys., Inc.,</i> (<i>Commil II</i>). That decision left intact the panel's holding, in a case of first impression, that an alleged indirect infringer's "good-faith belief of invalidity may negate the requisite intent for induced infringement."

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DJ Dropped from Dispute Over Use of Beastie Boys Music Image

DJ Dropped from Dispute Over Use of Beastie Boys Music

Jan Wolfe

After the Beastie Boys sued over the unlicensed use of several of the rap group's tracks in a remix on the soundtrack to a promotional video, defendant energy-drink maker Monster Energy Co. tried to shift the blame onto an unsuspecting disc jockey. That tactic didn't sit well with Southern District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who dismissed the DJ from the litigation.

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Protecting Digital Database Content

J.T. Westermeier

The Fourth Circuit's ruling in <i>Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. v. American Home Realty Network, Inc.</i> is an important court decision relating to e-commerce and protecting digital database content. The ruling relates to a multiple-listing copyrighted database of real estate listings.

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The Myths of Legal Hold Notification

Mikki Tomlinson

Organizations face serious repercussions in the form of both costly sanctions and adverse inferences for inadequate or failed legal hold procedures. The most basic preservation task however, issuing legal hold notifications, seemingly remains a mystery to a surprising portion of corporate defendants. Too often, organizations, and their counsel, do not view the legal hold notification (LHN) process as a manageable business process.

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The Media

Linda S. Crawford

There is a perception, in large part driven by media bias, that in America today, unlike in times past, "everyone sues." This could not be farther from the truth.

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Decisions of Interest

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent important rulings.

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No Right to a Jury Under the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act Image

No Right to a Jury Under the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act

Sherilyn Pastor & Mario S. Russo

The New Jersey Appellate Division, on Oct. 9, 2013, held that there exists no statutory or constitutional right to a jury trial under the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act ("the Act"), N.J. Stat. Ann. '' 17:33A-1 to -30.

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What's New in the Law

Robert W. Ihne

A roundup of pertinent rulings from all over the country.

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In the Courts

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Analysis of a recent case involving allocution.

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