A DURATION NO MORE THAN NECESSARY: A PROPOSED TEST FOR THE DURATION REQUIREMENT OF RAM-COPY FIXATION

• Published in: Jurimetrics (Chicago, Ill.) Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 217 - 243
• Main Author: Shen, Li-Jen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago American Bar Association 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Computers; Copyright; Copyright infringement; Copyright laws; Copyrights; Defendants; DEVELOPMENTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW; Digital computers; Duration; Fair use; Fair use (Copyright); Intellectual property; Laws, regulations and rules; Plaintiffs; Random access memory; Social media; Trials; Web pages; Web sites; Websites

Circuit Courts are split on whether a temporary duplicate of a copyrighted work in Random Access Memory (RAM) constitutes a copy under the Copyright Act of 1976. The Ninth Circuit interprets the statutory definition of fixation in § 101 of the 1976 Act by requiring only that the embodiment of a copy...