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Recent cases in Copyright Law

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 * Update:** Optus has confirmed it will suspend its TV Now service from today, following the Federal Court's decision to hold the telco liable for copyright infringement over its service.

In continuation to the infamous Apple-Samsung war, Apple has now requested a ban on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US, citing patent infringement reasons. In the past, Samsung had been accused by Apple over [|destruction of evidence] involved in the patent infringement case it had filed in the past. Reasons for Apple to take such a decision include the surprisingly similar look and feel of Samsung devices to Apple’s iPhone and iPad. []

THE jury deliberating over Oracle's claims that Google infringed copyrights protecting Oracle's Java technology reached a mixed decision overnight, which could leave Google on the hook for only a relatively small amount of damages. []

BOSTON -- A former [|Boston University] graduate student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will continue fighting the penalty, despite the Supreme Court's refusal yesterday to hear his appeal. []

"The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material. In response, the hackers group Anonymous has targeted the FBI and US Department of Justice websites. The news came a day after anti-piracy law protests, but investigators said they were ordered two weeks ago. The US Justice Department said that Megaupload's two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two other employees of the business at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large. "This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime," [|said a statement] posted on its website. The FBI website was intermittently unavailable on Thursday evening due to what officials said was being "treated as a malicious act". The hackers' group Anonymous said it was carrying out the attacks. The Motion Picture Association of America's website also suffered disruption."
 * Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.**

Source: [] --- //Contributed By Lachlan: Do not Copy and Paste, put into your own words... Why steal someone elses work in an assignment to do with piracy?// The **Stop Online Piracy Act** (**SOPA**) is a United States bill introduced by The United States (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Provisions include the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and search engines from linking to the sites, and court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to the sites. The law would expand existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Source: [] --- //Contributed By Lachlan/ Do not Copy and Paste, put into your own words... Why steal someone elses work in an assignment to do with piracy?//

A recent case of copyright law was when the Afl and Telstra sued Optus because optus was live streaming the afl's football games without the permission or without giving the afl something in return for example money and Telstra were paying $153 million for the rights to show Afl games. They had to appear in court on the 1st February 2012. Optus won because they found a loop hole in the case and are continuing to show Afl games without the support of the Afl. This case of Copyright dates back to March of 2007, less than a year after Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion. In its lawsuit, Viacom argued that YouTube’s explosive growth was based, in part, on users posting videos of Viacom’s programs such as Southpark. Youtube won and continue to show videos of other companies.