Copyright Tidings From The Us

Two unrelated copyright stories from across the Pond:

- From the Mercury News - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 screenwriter has lost a copyright illustration earlier the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals subsequently the courtroom constitute that she had no correct to pick out the action. The author claims that her script for the TV motion painting The Other Woman, inwards which a woman raise teaches her children to learn along amongst the adult woman that is to endure at that topographic point stepmother subsequently her expiry from cancer, was copied inwards the motion painting theater cinema Stepmom. The writer’s script is owned past times the society which produced the TV movie. Though that society purported to assign her the correct to pick out an action, the courtroom constitute that copyright holders can't assign or sell the correct to sue for copyright violations to anyone else.

- From Reuters: On Tuesday, the Supreme Court volition hear MGM v Grokster. The courtroom volition eventually pick out to receive upwards one's hear whether those who brand P2P file sharing networks available incur secondary liability inwards relation to those who swap illegal downloads over their networks.

awaits the Supreme Court’s highly of import determination amongst interest.

Grokster background here, here too here