Betamax Redux: RealNetworks and Kaleidescape Run Afoul of the DMCA and the Content Providers, from the Celesq®-West IP Master Series

Program Number: 1972IP

Program Date: 09/10/2009

Description

RealNetworks DVD software was enjoined for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Kaleidescape lost a case on similar grounds. Join us as Anthony F. Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP discusses those two cases and considers the impact of the DMCA on the fair use doctrine enunciated by the Supreme Court years ago in the Betamax case, as once again courts struggle to adopt traditional copyright principles to emerging technology.

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50-minute credit hour - 1 General CLE credit
60-minute credit hour - 1 General CLE credit

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Presenters


Anthony F. Lo Cicero, Esq.

Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

Anthony F. Lo Cicero, Esq. is a partner in the law firm of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP. Mr. Lo Cicero advises and litigates in all areas of patent, trademark, and copyright law, and has been instrumental in developing and enforcing trademark anticounterfeiting laws in the United States and throughout the world. He lectures frequently on intellectual property law, including patent, trademark and unfair competition law.