joegratz.netNews and Analysis on Copyright, Trademark, Internet Law, and Culture from San Francisco Attorney Joe GratzD. Az.: Making Available Isnt Infringement- April 30, 2008 Judge Neil V. Wake of the District of Arizona today issued this opinion in one of the RIAA file-sharing cases, Atlantic v. Howell. The RIAA had argued that even though there was no evidence that the defendant&8217;s file sharing software had ever actually sent out any infringing files, the fact that the defendant made those ...http://www.joegratz.net/archives/2008/04/29/d-az-making-available-isnt-infringement/ Summary Judgment Filed in UMG v. Augusto- April 29, 2008 As I mentioned once before, I&8217;m a member of the team defending eBay seller Troy Augusto in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by UMG Recordings, Inc. This is a rather unusual copyright infringement suit, in that even UMG agrees that there was no copying involved. They say that Troy&8217;s resale on eBay of CDs marked ...http://www.joegratz.net/archives/2008/04/29/summary-judgment-filed-in-umg-v-augusto/ Boomtown Java- April 5, 2008 The New York Times published an article yesterday marveling at the entrepreneurial fervor of patrons at Ritual Coffee Roasters in the Mission District here in San Francisco. It&8217;s basically identical to this article published in Slate in 1999 about Circadia, a now-abandoned Starbucks black-ops &8220;cafe of the future&8221; project in the outer Mission. ...http://www.joegratz.net/archives/2008/04/05/boomtown-java/ |