Defendant, a computer programmer employed by Goldman Sachs & Co., appealed his conviction for stealing and transferring proprietary computer source code of Goldman’s high frequency trading system in violation of the National Stolen Property Act (NSPA),… Continue reading
Plaintiffs appealed from the judgment of the district court granting summary judgment to defendants on all claims of direct and secondary copyright infringement based on a finding that defendants were entitled to safe harbor protection under the Digita… Continue reading
Plaintiffs in this consolidated class action allege copyright infringements arising from defendant publishers’ unauthorized electronic reproduction of plaintiff authors’ written works. The district court certified a class for settlement purposes and ap… Continue reading
Plaintiff sued defendant, claiming, among other things, copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. 501, trademark infringement under 15 U.S.C. 1114(a), and unfair competition under New York state law. At issue was whether the first sale doctrine, 17 U.S.C…. Continue reading
After a bench trial, the district court entered a judgment for plaintiffs concluding that on seventeen occasions, defendant had infringed plaintiffs’ copyrights in their research reports, and that by collecting and disseminating to its own subscribers … Continue reading
Plaintiff, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. (“Penguin”), filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against defendant, an Oregon not-for-profit corporation with its principal place of business in Arizona, alleging that… Continue reading