COPYRIGHT CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS!Katherine C. Spelman Cobalt, LLP Berkeley, CA

ICLE’s 38th Annual IP Law Summer Institute

Grand Traverse July 19-21, 2012

Legislation – U.S.!

•  SOPA/PIPA and the January 18th Internet Tantrum

•  Legislation derailed

Beijing WIPO Treaty on Audiovisual Performances !

•  June 26th, 2012 marked first treaty in copyright since 1996

•  Provides rights to audiovisual performers similar to those that music performers have already under WIPO

Copyright Litigation 25% up!•  Law 360, Erin Coe “IP Litigation Takes

Off in First Half of 2011”

Publishers suing Patent Firms - 03/2012 !Texaco Redux?!

•  Wiley v. McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff (MBHB), No. 12-CV-01446 (N.D. Ill).

•  Wiley v. Schwegman Lundberg, No. 12-528 (RHK/JJK) (U.S.D.C. Minn.)

Public Performance!

•  American Broadcasting Co. v. Aereo, Inc., 12 CIV 1540 (AJN) (S.D.N.Y. July 11, 2012)

Termination Notice - Standing!

•  Scorpio Music v. Willis, 2012 WL 1598043, 1 (S.D. Cal. 2012) – 30% enough, not statutory 51% "

Public Domain!

• Warner Bros. Enterm’t, Inc. v. X One X Prods., 644 F.3d 584 (8th Cir. 2011)

Standing !

• Righthaven, LLC v. Hoehn, 792 F. Supp. 2d 1138, (D. Nev. 2011)

Jurisdiction!

•  Shropshire v. Canning,  809 F.Supp.2d 1139, 1145 (N.D.Cal. 2011) –  All Canadian acts, except upload was to YouTube

servers in California

•  Nielsen Co. (US), LLC v. Truck Ads, LLC,  2011 WL 3857122, 1 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 29, 2011)

Originality!

Copyrightability!

• Oracle v. Google, No. C-10-03561, U.S.D.C. N.D. Ca. (June 1, 2012) – Oracle’s Java APIs not copyrightable

DMCA!

•  Personal Keepsake Inc. v. Personalizationmall.com, Inc., 2012 WL 414803 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 8, 2012)

DMCA!

• Capitol Records Inc. v. MP3tunes LLC, 2011 WL 3667335 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 22, 2011)

DMCA!

• Wolk v. Kodak Imaging Network Inc., 2011 WL 940056 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 17, 2011)

DMCA!

•  Viacom International, Inc., v. YouTube, Inc., 10-3270-cv, 2012 WL 1130851 (2d Cir. Apr. 5, 2012)

Oldest Copyright Class Action (1997): Certification Fails!

•  In re: Literary Works in Electronic Databases (Aug. 17, 2011) 

Mass Digitization!

•  Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc., (2011) –  Formerly called ‘GBS’ –  Infringement alleged – Defense claims ‘Fair Use’

Mass Digitization!

•  American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) v. Google –  Not consolidated with Authors Guild –  Infringement alleged – Defense claims ‘Fair Use’

Mass Digitization!

• The Authors Guild v. Hathi Trust, (S.D.N.Y. 2011) – Hathi Trust = academic universal library – Authors Guild claims unauthorized

library copies of Google Corpus infringed by HathiTrust

Google Book Cases !2012 Docket Dates!•  Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. - September 6th

Summary Judgment hearing •  ASMP v. Google, Inc. - October 29th Summary

Judgment briefing ends •  Authors Guild, Inc. v. Hathi Trust - November Trial

Fair Use!

•  Publishers v. Georgia State (2012) – May 14, 2012, 390 page opinion –  99 claims of infringement & 5 found infringing –  Bright line test = 1 chapter or 10% Fair Use

Fair Use !

• Cariou v. Prince, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29070 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 18, 2011)

Licensing!

•  Kno, Inc. v Cengage Learning, Inc., N.D. CA CV 12-00121 (Jan. 6, 2012)

Post E-Bay Injunction!

•  Flexible Lifeline Sys., Inc. v. Precision Lift, Inc., 654 F.3d 989 (9th Cir. 2011) – End of an era – proven, not presumed

Actual Damages!

• Gaylord v. U.S., 98 Fed. Cl. 389 (2011)

Actual damages!

•  Oracle USA Inc. v. SAP AG, 100 USPQ2d 1450 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 1, 2011) –  Facts:

•  Jury awards Oracle $1.3 Billion in Actual Damages based on “hypothetical negotiation.”

•  Defendant moves for new trial

Licensing!

•  Range Road Music Inc. v. East Coast Foods Inc., 668 F.3d 1148 (9th Cir. 2012)

First Sale Doctrine!

•  Adobe Sys. Inc. v. Hoops Enter. LLC, 2012 WL 892162 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 14, 2012)

First Sale Doctrine!

•  John Wiley & Sons Inc. v. Kirtsaeng, 654 F.3d 210 (2d Cir. 2011)

Archive Versions!!

•  Aviation Software Inc. v. United States, 100 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1943 (Fed. Cir. 2011)

Fee Award!

•  Brownmark Films LLC v. Comedy Partners, 101 USPQ2d 1241 (E.D. Wis. Nov. 30, 2011)

Questions?!

Thank You!