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YouTube criticism found to be fair use

By Casey Mock
September 22, 2017 03:36 PM
Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 16-cv-3081 (S.D.N.Y. 2017)
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Public Employee Data on Linkedin Available for Copying

By Casey Mock
September 15, 2017 03:49 PM
hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., 17-cv-03301 (N.D. Cal)
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Cap and Gown Competitor Website Too Close for Copyright Comfort

By Casey Mock
September 15, 2017 03:44 PM
Graduation Solutions, LLC v. Acadima, LLC, 17-cv-01342 (D. Conn)
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Photographer Appeals Fair Use Ruling After Student Uses His Photo for a School Project

By Casey Mock
September 15, 2017 03:41 PM
Reiner v. Nishimori, 15-cv-00241 (M.D. Tenn)
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Former Student Athlete Sues University for Using his Likeness

By Casey Mock
September 06, 2017 03:52 PM
Spielman v. IMG College, LLC, 17-cv-00612 (S.D. Ohio)
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Student Sued for Allegedly Wearing Spyglasses During MCAT

By Casey Mock
September 06, 2017 03:50 PM
Association of American Medical Colleges v. Anyanwu, 17-cv-03051 (N.D. GA)
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Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against VidAngel

By Ty Turley-Trejo
August 25, 2017 03:56 PM
Disney Enterprises, Inc. v. VidAngel, Inc., 16-56843 (9th Cir. Aug. 24, 2017)
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Photographer Sues Procter & Gamble For Potential Infringement

By Daniel Shen
August 07, 2017 03:58 PM
Navarro v. Procter & Gamble, 17-cv-00406 (S.D. Ohio)
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Former Graduate Student Sues Designers of Freedom Tower

By Daniel Shen
July 31, 2017 04:01 PM
On June 14 of this year, a former graduate student of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (CAIIT) filed a complaint against architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) for alleged copyright infringement in the firm’s One World Trade Center design. Mr. Jeehoon Park, now an architect in Georgia, alleges that while he was a graduate student at CAIIT, members of SOM had access to his thesis for the design of a 122-story building that bears similarities to the One World Trade Center.
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Textbook Publishers Sue Follett Over Counterfeit Textbooks

By Daniel Shen
July 31, 2017 03:54 PM
Cengage Learning v. Follett, 17-cv-04672 (S.D.N.Y.)
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Utah Court Holds Public Universities Immune From Copyright Lawsuits

By Fabiana Lauf
June 20, 2017 03:59 PM
Israel v. University of Utah, 15-cv-00741 (D. Utah 2015)
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Mayo Clinic Sued for Using Copyrighted Charts in Training Courses

By Daniel Shen
June 09, 2017 04:08 PM
On April 20, 2017, Dr. Mary Lippitt filed a complaint against Mayo Clinic for the alleged infringement of one of her copyrighted works. Dr. Lippitt had registered various versions of a chart that presents a system for managing complex organizational change (the Managing Complex Change Chart, or “MCC Chart”), and had exclusively licensed those works to Enterprise Management Limited, a consulting firm Dr. Lippitt founded and the joint plaintiff here.
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