{"id":37605,"date":"2016-06-27T17:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T12:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=37163"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:56:47","slug":"copyright-case-decisions-latest-updates-us-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/copyright-case-decisions-latest-updates-us-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest updates in Copyright case decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jury clears Led Zeppelin\u2019s “Stairway to Heaven” from copyright infringement claim<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A lawsuit alleging copyright infringement was brought against Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin group \u00a0by\u00a0Michael Skidmore. He alleged that there were similarities between the opening chords for 1971 song\u00a0Stairway To Heaven<\/em>\u00a0 and a composition called\u00a0Taurus<\/em>\u00a0 which was released four years earlier by a band called Spirit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The US District Judge Gary Klausner had ruled in April that \u201cStairway to Heaven\u201d bore \u201csubstantial\u201d similarities with \u201cTaurus\u201d. However, the jury found that the two songs were not \u201csubstantially similar\u201d. This decision of the Jury was welcomed by the musicians and Led Zeppelin\u2019s record label Warner Music Group as a victory for creative freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Content sharing websites cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting content<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

In another copyright decision from the US courts, \u00a0the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in a copyright infringement suit brought by Capitol Records and Sony Inc. alleging copyright infringement over music in 199 videos that Vimeo users had uploaded on the site, held that the Video-sharing website, Vimeo LLC cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting older music uploaded by its users.This decision was welcomed by other content hosting platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google and other similarly interested companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is pertinent to note that, the law provides various remedies to the aggrieved party whose copyright has been infringed which includes sending a notice to the content hosting site to take down the infringing elements. However, if the content hosting site despite genuine request to take down the infringing element fail in their duty, they shall be held liable for breach of relevant copyright laws and IT laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Disney Enterprises sue three Chinese companies for copyright infringement<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Disney’s subsidiaries ,Disney Enterprises Inc. and Pixar have sued three Chinese production companies G-Point, PPTV and Bluemtv for copyright infringement and unfair competition. \u00a0The movie \u2018The Autobots\u2019 produced by the defendants is visually similar to Disney\u2019s animated franchise ‘Cars’. The Autobots was heavily criticized by netizens in China on its release for bearing striking similarities. More details regarding this matter is awaited. Look out for this space for further updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Bhuvana S. Babu<\/span><\/p>\n

Image source\/ Attribution<\/span> here<\/a>\u00a0, Governed BY Creative Commons License<\/span> CC0 1.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post presents a legal analysis of recent copyright case decisions, including the Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven verdict and rulings on content hosting liability. It also reviews Disney Enterprises’ copyright infringement suit in China, offering structured insights into evolving copyright law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[8323,31,93,7841,8324,8322,242,8325],"class_list":["post-37605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyrights","category-intellectual-property","tag-content-hosting","tag-copyright-infringement","tag-copyright-law","tag-disney-lawsuit","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-legal-case-updates","tag-music-copyright","tag-us-copyright-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135202,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37605\/revisions\/135202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}