A California federal magistrate judge on Thursday tossed an architecture firm's suit accusing an Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner of stealing its remodeling plans for her home, finding that the firm prematurely lodged its copyright infringement claim before registering anything with the U.S. Copyright Office.
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The game s emotes let players dance to hit songs as avatars and put licensing dollars in the pockets of musicians and TikTok choreographers.
Every time Epic Games head of global partnerships
Nate Nanzer defeats an opponent in the company s popular video game
Fortnite, his player avatar breaks out the Gangnam Style dance.
The 10-second dance sequence, soundtracked by a clip of the 2012 hit from PSY, is just one of the hundreds of emotes that
Fortnite s 350 million players globally can purchase for between 200 and 800 V-bucks (roughly $2-$8) each at the game s Item Shop, allowing them to perform different actions and expressions through their avatars.
Jeff Sedlik s Miles Davis portrait shows up all over the Internet, rarely with his permission, and there s not much he can do to protect himself. Enter the CASE Act, which sounds dull . but isn t.
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GitHub is urging the US Copyright Office to expand the DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions to eliminate FUD. The developer platform backs a proposal from Professor Halderman which opts to broaden exemptions for security researchers. GitHub is not the only party that backs elements of this proposal, the US Department of Justice does too.
US copyright law places broad restrictions on what people are allowed do with copyrighted content.
The U.S. Copyright Office regularly reviews these exemptions to Section 1201 of the DMCA, which generally prevents the public from ‘tinkering’ with DRM-protected software and devices.
These provisions are renewed every three years after the Office hears input from stakeholders and the general public. This process also allows interested parties to suggest new exemptions.