Many of last year's high-profile intellectual property cases featured familiar themes set against the background of new technologies. Copyright holders won victories over Napster and over hackers who posted DVD decryption programs. For its part, the U.S. Supreme Court sustained the copyright claims of free-lance authors, considered the interplay between patent and trademark laws and upheld broad patent protection for plants.
January 30, 2002 at 12:00 AM
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On the other hand, the author of a novel that used thecharacters and much of the plot of “Gone with the Wind” was heldentitled to a fair-use defense. For its part, the U.S. Supreme Court issuedthree intellectual property opinions of significance, sustaining the copyrightclaims of free-lance authors in the Tasinicase, considering theinterplay between the patent and trademark laws in Traffixand upholdingbroad patent protection for plants in the J.E.M.case.
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