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IP Software & Information Licensing, 2008 Supplement
IP Software Information Licensing 2008 Supplement Author:G. Peter Albert, Jr. and Michael Best & Friedrich, LLC The 2008 Supplement analyzes the 2008 Supreme Court decision, Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., in detail. The case addresses the issue of patent exhaustion in the context of a complex computer systems licensing arrangement involving mulitiple parties.Other issues newly discussed include trademark licensing and exhaustion, trade sec... more »ret licensing, and acquiring third-party content for a multimedia work, specifically concerning a Web-based fantasy baseball game. In CBC Districbution and Marketing Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, LP, the 8th Circuit in 2007 upheld the First Amendment rights of the media company over the publicity rights of the baseball players' association. The 2008 Supplement also contains a detailed discussion of claims brought under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the 2006 case of Butera & Andrews v. IBM. Finally, a new topic in this supplement is Information Digitization and Aggregation--that is, services that gather relevant information from multiple sources to provide convenience and add value by tailoring that information for specific objectives. The market-based approach to information aggregators raise questions about privatizing information and data.« less