Commentary

On October 4 - 5, 2007, Conference Co-Chair Kirk Soderquist and speakers Don Karl and Shaalu Mehra will join other leading industry professionals and practitioners discussing content, access and intellectual property issues, recent court decisions, financing, cross-border issues, the growth of casual games, M&A transactions and outsourcing agreements.

Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular Wireless each contracted with DirectRevenue LLC to deliver ads to consumers. To service its clients (including Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular Wireless), DR installed adware on millions of computers. The adware, which was undisclosed to users and difficult to remove, monitored the websites visited by the users and collected the information they typed into web forms. The NY AG filed a law suit alleging that DirectRevenue had violated New York consumer protection law, then pursued DirectRevenue's three major advertiser clients.

On June 27, 2005, the United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. --- (2005), that appears to edge open the door for copyright holders to successfully sue distributors of software and other technology that enables others to commit copyright infringement.

Case #: 1:2000cv03951 (S.D.N.Y. 2001)
Federal
MP3.com allows consumers to download music to their computer, if they already own the CD on which the song originates. TVT has been granted partial summary judgment against MP3.

No. 3:99CV-519-P (W.D.N.C. filed Dec. 30, 1999)
Federal
Defendant operates Paytrust online bill delivery and payment service. As part of the service, Paytrust offers checkbook balancing feature that aggregates financial information from other companies.

(Italy)
Foreign
Italian music publishing companies have sued the administrator of the Web site http://www.mailgate.org/mailgate/it.arti.musica.spartiti and discontinued newsfeed to the network, alleging illegal transfer of copyrighted lyrics and scores.