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Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided September 6, 2000No. 00 Civ. 0277 (LAK)PublishedCited by 39 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

Contents

I. The Genesis of the Controversy.305

A. The Vocabulary of this Case.305

1. Computers and Operating Systems.305

2. Computer Code.305

3. The Internet and the World Wide Web .306

4. Portable Storage Media.307

5. The Technology Here at Issue.308

B. Parties.308

C. The Development of DVD and CSS.309

D. The Appearance of DeCSS.311

E. The Distribution of DeCSS.311

F. The Preliminary Injunction and Defendants’ Response .312

G. Effects on Plaintiffs.313

II. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act.315

A. Background and Structure of the Statute.315

B. Posting of DeCSS .316

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2Cases cited62 opinions

  1. New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
  3. Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  4. United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982

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3Cited by39 opinions

  1. Universal City Studios, Inc. v. CorleyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
  2. Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2004
  3. MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2010
  4. The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2004
  5. DVD Copy Control Ass'n, Inc. v. BunnerCalifornia Supreme Court · 2003

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