Last month, in an unpublished memorandum disposition, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a significant district court decision granting summary judgment, on fair use grounds, to ...

Computer software should not be protected by copyright laws designed for music, literature and other creative works, according to a lawsuit filed in a U.S. court in San Francisco.

In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit approved the use of “Copyrightability Hearings.” Not sure what that means? Read on to find out. The case involved a ...

The Situation: The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") ruled that modifying temporary variables in the working memory of a computer without enabling the reproduction or further execution ...

Two authors claim Apple violated their copyright protections while developing its AI, Apple Intelligence. Two authors, Grady ...

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A group of large software companies has taken the first step toward inciting a tussle with the telecommunications industry by asking Congress to rewrite copyright law so alleged Internet pirates can ...

New regulations dealing with the registration of software copyright in China have come into force, aimed at bringing the country's laws into line with the IP standards of the WTO. The amended rules ...

The librarian of Congress has provided a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let people repair optical drives on video game consoles. The ...

Already facing similar litigation in China and California, TikTok Inc. has now been hit with copyright infringement litigation in Texas by a Chinese software company. The Texas lawsuit alleged that ...

A change in New Zealand’s copyright law will see software developers owning their software by default, even when that software is commissioned, and that has led one ...

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral ...