IP Law: Defendants in BitTorrent Copyright Cases Severed



Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) — In four mass copyright infringement actions involving peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent, filed in the Northern District of California, all John Doe defendants but one were severed and dismissed. Michael Dunn, Bloomberg Law Intellectual Property Law Report editor, talks with Josh Block on Bloomberg Law’s “Intellectual Property Review” about the case. Also a review of IP developments including Amazon’s appellate court victory in a lawsuit over patents, Netflix applies to trademark the name “Qwikster,” which is already in use on Twitter, and universities sued for infringing scans of books believed to be “orphan works.”