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Category: Copyright
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Eiffel Tower Prohibits Nocturnal Photography
The Eiffel Tower’s likeness has long been part of the public domain. However, in 2003 it was abruptly repossessed by the city of Paris. That’s the year that the SNTE, the company charged with maintaining the tower, adorned it with a lighting display, in which it asserts copyright, and reclaimed the nighttime image and likeness… Read more →
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DMCA claim filed against graduate student
First up on today’s menu: more DMCA legal shenanigans, with a United States copy-protection software developer filing suit against a graduate student at Princeton University under s1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998. SunnComm Technology alleges that one J Halderman engaged in circumvention of a protection measure when publishing a research paper, which detailed… Read more →
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Copright May Protect ‘Functional Structure’
Pumfrey J of the High Court of England and Wales yesterday granted leave to appeal in a copyright infringement case between two rival airline ticket-booking software devlopers. Though the competing products were programmed in entirely different languages (Cobol and Visual Basic [heh]), Pumfrey J noted the similarities in ‘functional structure’, drawing an analogy to the… Read more →
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Federal Court Overrules Mod Chip Verdict
In a unanimous decision, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia yesterday overruled its previous verdict that video game console copy-protection schemes comprised a “technological protection measure” as defined in subs 10(1) of the Copyright Act. The result is to prevent the sale of so-called “mod chip” devices which circumvent said protection, and… Read more →