Lawyers have abandoned a closely watched lawsuit against the document-sharing site Scribd that alleged the site’s copyright filtering technology is itself a form of copyright infringement. The Texas federal court case broached a novel legal theory that the U.S. courts have never squarely decided. The Scribd suit maintained that the copying and insertion of a copyrighted work into a filtering system without compensating the copyright holder, or obtaining their consent, was a violation of the Copyright Act. The suit said the filters breached copyrights because Scribd “illegally copies the work into its copyright protection system” without authorization. Filtering systems generally compare new uploads to ...

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1. Trademark Attorney Arizona says:

   July 21, 2010 at 7:12 pm

   An interesting end to an interesting case. The dismissal with prejudice is telling.