On May 9, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Warner Chappell Music Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al. (No. 22-1078), holding that copyright owners can recover damages going back more than three years based...more
5/14/2024
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Warner Chappell Music v Nealy
On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling clarifying one element of the Copyright Act’s fair use doctrine. The 7-2 opinion came in a case involving Andy Warhol’s transformation of a photograph of...more
In Van Buren v. United States, No. 19-783, 593 U.S. _ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. 1030, bringing much needed clarity to how people and...more
On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-awaited decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. (No. 18-956), finding that Google’s use of software code was fair use under the U.S. Copyright Act. The Supreme...more
4/6/2021
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