"On the other hand, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Sony Betamax case several years ago, technology that has substantial non-infringing uses cannot be outlawed simply because pirates might also use the technology for infringing activities, " Weiss said.
During this entire time, EchoStar has continued to market and use its infringing devices to its immense profit.
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It wasn't clear how many HTC smartphones use the infringing technology.
"It demonstrates that the media community stands together in recognizing that Meltwater's business of appropriating and selling media content cannot be excused as fair use and instead is infringing, " she said.
The San Francisco company's peer-to-peer data transfer technology has been blamed for helping online piracy to flourish, thanks to its use by several copyright-infringing media sites.
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Everybody's favorite far-reaching, possibly free speech-infringing law, the DMCA, is being put to use again for busting down on Divineo, a seller of mod-chips.
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Some people in Silicon Valley fear that Mr Myhrvold will use his portfolio of patents to sue technology firms for allegedly infringing them.
Trademark protection of a fictional character provides the owner with the exclusive right to use the character in connection with goods and services, as well as the right to prevent the unauthorized use of the character in connection with goods and services of infringing third parties.
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If referees are not sure, give a scrum, use yellow cards more frequently and get people off if they're infringing deliberately and then we might have a faster game.
Prometheus calls that accusation absurd and said only researchers who use its reference numbers as part of a treatment method could be accused of infringing.
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Regarding Napster's claim that its users were not infringing copyright because sharing copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings via the Napster service is protected by the "fair use" doctrine, the court held that the four fair use factors in the Copyright Act tip the balance in the record companies' favour.
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