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RealNetworks Appeals Injunction Against Sales of RealDVD

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 11, 2009 - 11:20am.
San Francisco - RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK) has filed an appeal of a judge's injunction against the sale of the company's RealDVD software, which can make copies of DVDs, CNET News.com reported.

The company argues in documents submitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel did not consider the public interest, and wrongly presumed the distribution of RealDVD would irreparably harm the studios when she issued the injunction.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued RealNetworks over RealDVD last fall, arguing that the software violated the provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that prohibits circumvention of copyright controls, and also that RealNetworks committed a breach of contract.

 

Related Links:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10394587-261.html

http://www.mpaa.org

Published in DMW Daily, November 11, 2009
tags: Video | Law | Lawsuits | Movies | DVD | RealNetworks | MPAA | DMCA | Copyright | RealDVD |



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