In a case alleging 75 instances of infringement in an educational setting, 70 instances were not infringing because of fair use and for other reasons.
Under circumstances involving repeated instances of infringement through the use of the University's computing network, such disciplinary action may include the termination or suspension of network privileges.
In case of especially serious instances of infringement, the proposal provides for an expedited procedure that drastically reduces the timeframe in which the alleged infringers and ISPs may respond to the allegations and subsequently take down the materials.
As Brandon Butler points out in his discussion of the ruling, even that might overestimate the infringement, since it appears that the summary in the decision may list at least some instances of infringement that were actually found, in the specific analysis, to be fair use.
While Nokia states that forty vendors have licensed its patents in these areas there is no mention of the specific instances of infringement and, given that GSM, UMTS, and WiFi are the defacto standards for GSM-based phones across the board it's hard to tell what Nokia's real problem is here.
They also lack the resources to track every instance of patent infringement or defend their patents or file petitions to invalidate dubious patents.
Ms. Gordon, who sued the rapper 50 Cent and Dr. Dre in 2005, accusing them of using her music without her permission on a 50 Cent album, is demanding that Mr. McGinley pay her $30,000 per instance of copyright infringement.
Like.com will likely say that it was a clear instance of patent infringement--and they may be right.
Most contested instances of copyright infringement are those in which the infringer has copied small portions, quotations or excerpts of works and represents them in another form, for example, a biography, criticism, news article or other commentary.
There are 12 instances of copyright infringement alleged in this case.
