Mar 31

UK Legalizes CD Rips From June 1 2014 Onwards

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UK Legalizes CD Rips From June 1 2014 OnwardsProgress has been extremely slow when it comes to the UK and its copyright law making their way across the finish line in the digital era. It has taken a rather lengthy two-year legislative process for the UK’s Intellectual Property Office to publish the final version of copyright exceptions. In layman’s terms, this would make it legal for users to rip CDs and shift formats from this coming June 1, 2014, onwards, as long as those rips are used for personal purposes and not on a commercial whim or business premise.

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    Jan 02

    Amazon gets Apple’s false advertising claim dismissed from trademark infringement lawsuit

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    Amazon gets Apple's false advertising claim dismissed from trademark infringement lawsuitIt’s been awhile since we last had news from Apple’s App Store-based trademark infringement lawsuit against Amazon. Today, Amazon got Apple’s claim for false advertising dismissed from that very same case after filing for partial summary judgement. In finding for Amazon, the judge held that Apple failed to identify a single false statement (expressly stated or implied) that Amazon made about the nature, characteristics, or quality of the Amazon Appstore that would deceive customers into thinking it was the same as the Apple App Store — a legal requirement to establish false advertising under federal law. Not a bad way for Bezos to ring in the new year, eh?

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