RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Ass'n, Inc.
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RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., 641 F. Supp. 2d 913 (2009), is a United States District Court case involving RealNetworks, the movie studios and DVD Copy Control Association regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims on the manufacturing and distribution of RealDVD, and a breach of license agreement. The district court concluded that RealNetworks violated the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the DMCA when the DVD copying software RealDVD bypasses the copy protection technologies of DVD.
RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. | |
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Court | United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Decided | August 11, 2009 |
Docket nos. | 3:08-cv-04548 |
Citation(s) | 641 F. Supp. 2d 913 |
Case history | |
Subsequent action(s) | No. 3:08-cv-04548, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1433 (N.D. Cal. January 8, 2010) (Antitrust claims dismissed) |
Holding | |
RealNetworks violated the anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by allowing users of RealDVD software product to make permanent backup copies of copyrighted DVDs. A preliminary injunction was granted to forbid RealNetworks from manufacturing and distributing RealDVD, or any other similar software product. | |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Marilyn Hall Patel |
Keywords | |
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Anti-circumvention, Copyright |
This lawsuit is one of the many legal actions taken by the movie studios in an attempt to restrict the copying of DVDs.