Russian Entertainment Wholesale, Inc. v. Close-Up International, Inc., 2012 WL 1525080 (2d Cir. 2012).
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| from: www.fromrussia.com |
Where licensee
had licensed “Russian language only” or “English language only” rights to
distribute Russian language films in the United States, could the licensor
claim copyright infringements over production of DVDs with multilingual
functionality? The Second Circuit found
the answer in New York contract law. The
parties could have agreed that functionality in DVDs that permitted subtitles
or other languages could have been disabled, but did not agree to do so. Additionally, facilitating viewers watching a
video with an added or missing language did not rise to contributory or
vicarious copyright infringement as a matter of law.
To read Judges Calabresi, Raggi and Chin's summary order and judgment, click here.
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