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West Palm Beach, Florida intellectual property lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a copyright infringement theory. |
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Miami, Florida intellectual property lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a copy right infringement theory. |
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Miami, Florida intellectual property lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a copyright infringement theory.... More... $0 (08-11-2021 - FL) |
William Roberts, II, a/k/a Rick Ross and Andrew Harr v. Stefan Kendal Gordy, Skyler Austen Gorday
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Elbert P. Tuttle Federal Courthouse - Atlanta, Georgia |
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William L. Roberts II, Andrew Harr, and Jermaine Jackson (collectively “Appellants”), who are artists in the hip-hop industry, appeal the dismissal of their copyright infringement case. On appeal, they argue that their copyright registrations were improperly invalidated under 17 U.S.C. § 411 without a showing of scienter and that they made a proper showing of copyright ownership. Appellees counter... More... $0 (12-15-2017 - FL) |
| Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. Wall-Street.com, LLC, et al. |
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“Registration” of a copyright is a precondition to filing suit for copyright infringement. 17 U.S.C. § 411(a). This appeal requires us to decide an issue that |
| United States of America v. Juan Carlos Medina Cardenas |
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Miami, FL - Colombian Citizen Sentenced for his Participation in an International Money Laundering Conspiracy |
| Robert Curtis and Darlene Curtis v. Tower Hill Prime Insurance Co. |
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Robert and Darlene Curtis sued Tower Hill Prime Insurance Co. in a |
| Irina Chevaldina v. R.K./FL Management, Inc. |
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Irina Chevaldina appeals an order granting a preliminary injunction1 to “enjoin tortious interference, stalking, trespass and defamatory blogs” entered in favor of Raanan Katz and the other named appellees, plaintiffs in the circuit court.2 We vacate the order and injunction. |
| United States of America v. Paul R. Gunter |
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The United States of America charged Paul R. Gunter, age 64, with conspiracy to defraud the United States, frauds and swindles, fraud by wire, radio or television, attempted and conspiracy to commit mail raud, fraud by wire, radio or television, money laundering, postal, interstate wire, radio, etc., in interstate commerce in violation 18 U.S.C. 1341.F, 18 U.S.C. 1343.F, 18 U.S.C. 1348.F, 18 U.S.C... More... $0 (04-19-2013 - FL) |
| Saregama India, Ltd. v. Timothy Mosley |
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This case concerns a copyright infringement action brought by Saregama India Ltd. (“Saregama”) against the Defendants for copying, or digitally sampling, a portion of the Indian song, “Baghor Mein Bahar Hai” (“BMBH”), in the hip-hop song, “Put You on the Game” (“PYOG”). Saregama, an Indian music production and distribution company, claims that it owns a copyright in the sound r... More... $0 (03-25-2011 - FL) |
| Intervest Construction, Inc. v. Canterbury Estate Homes, Inc. |
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In this copyright infringement action the appellant contends that the district court erred when it examined the two floor-plans at issue, and, emphasizing the differences between the two, concluded “that, as a matter of law, no reasonable fact-finder could conclude” that appellant’s floor-plan (“The Kensington”) was substantially similar to appellee’s floor-plan (“The Westminister”... More... $0 (12-25-2008 - FL) |
| Michael Penzer, as assignee of Southeast Wireless, Inc. v. Transportation Insurance Company v. Southeast Wireless, Inc., Nextel South Corp. |
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This appeal involves an insurance coverage dispute. Appellant Michael Penzer (“Penzer”) is the assignee of Southeast Wireless, Inc. (“Southeast”). Appellee Transportation Insurance Company (“Transportation”) issued to Southeast a commercial liability policy that included coverage for “advertising injury.” Penzer and Southeast entered into a class action settlement1 of claims that S... More... $0 (10-23-2008 - FL) |
| Stuart Weitzman, LLC v. Microcomputer Resources, Inc. |
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3 custom software that is at issue in this case. Both parties agree that MCR owns the copyright in this custom software, and both parties also agree that MCR has never registered its copyright. For years, the parties operated pursuant to an oral agreement without incident, but eventually the relationship deteriorated. On December 6, 2005, MCR sent a letter to Weitzman, asserting, among other thing... More... $0 (09-12-2008 - FL) |
| Peter Letterese and Associates, Inc. v. World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, International, Religious Technology Center, Inc., Church of Scientology International, Inc., Church of Spiritual Technology |
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The parties in this case disagree over the scope of copyright protection in a book about sales techniques authored by the late Leslie Achilles “Les” Dane. Peter Letterese & Associates, Inc. (“PL&A”), the exclusive licensee of the copyright in Dane’s book, claims that three entities affiliated with the Church of Scientology have been infringing its copyright by incorporating portions of t... More... $0 (07-08-2008 - FL) |
| BUC International Corporation v. International Yacht Council Limited |
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MLS Solutions, Inc. and International Yacht Council Ltd. ("IYC") were found by a jury to have violated the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 501, by infringing upon the selection, order, and arrangement of information contained in BUC International Corp.'s Used Boat Price Guide.1 The jury awarded BUC $1,598,278 in actual damages, and we affirmed that judgment. See BUC Int'l Corp. v. Int'l Yacht Coun... More... $0 (02-25-2008 - FL) |
| Jerry Greenberg v. National Geographic Society, et al. |
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This case presents the question of whether § 201(c) of the Copyright Act1 accords a magazine publisher a privilege to produce a digital compilation that contains exact images of its past magazine issues. This case comes before this Court for a second time and requires a determination whether an intervening Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483 (2001), abrogates an ... More... $0 (06-19-2007 - FL) |
| Sue Scheff, Parents Universal Resource Experts vs. Carey Bock and Ginger Warbis |
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Carey Bock from Mandeville, Louisiana was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. She evacuated her family to a Texas apartment only to find her father was suffering from heart failure. Bock lost most of her money. One of Bock's sons was in Iraq and the other son was in Germany. It seemed life couldn't get much worse - that is, until Bock received word that a judgment in Broward County, Florida... More... $11200000 (01-31-2007 - FL) |
| Harry Palmer and Star's Edge v. Eldon Baun |
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Harry Palmer, the owner of Star's Edge, Inc., and the creator of a self-help course called Avatar, sought a preliminary injunction against Eldon Braun, alleging that Braun's book, The Source Course, infringed Palmer's copyright in the Avatar Course materials. The district court denied the request for a preliminary injunction after determining that Palmer was unlikely to succeed on the merits of hi... More... $0 (04-09-2002 - FL) |
| Artisan Contractors Association of America, Inc. v. Frontier Insurance Company |
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Artisan Contractor's Association of America, Inc. (ACA), the prevailing party in a copyright infringement suit, appeals the district court's decision to deny its motion to recover all of its expert witness fees from Frontier Insurance Company (Frontier). (1) Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 505, (2) the court in its discretion may allow "full costs" against a party other than the United States or an office... More... $0 (12-14-2001 - FL) |
| CBS Broadcasting, Inc., et al. v. Echostar Satellite Corporation |
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This is an interlocutory appeal from the entry of a preliminary injunction in a copyright infringement suit that was initiated by four major television network stations and associations representing hundreds of local network affiliates against EchoStar Satellite Company and its subsidiaries. The propriety of the preliminary injunction depends in large part upon the Satellite Home Viewer Act ("SHVA... More... $0 (09-17-2001 - FL) |
| Foley v. Luster |
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In this opinion, we decide whether a state common law claim for indemnification is preempted by the Copyright Act, whether a jury instruction was confusing, and whether the claimants in an indemnity action were required to apportion damages among defendant Luster and others that potentially played a role in the copyright infringement. * * *
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| Greenberg v. National Geographic Society |
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This appeal requires us, as a matter of first impression in this circuit, to construe the extent of the privilege afforded to the owner of a copyright in a collective work to reproduce and distribute the individual contributions to the collective work "as part of that particular collective work, any revision of that collective work, and any later collective work in the same series" under 17 U.S.C.... More... $0 (03-22-2001 - FL) |
