9th Circuit: Judge Wrongly Held Software Was ‘Derivative’ In Copyright Row

( December 17, 2024, 1:50 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A partially split panel in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 16 vacated or reversed large portions of a Nevada federal judge’s finding in a long-stewing copyright case between two software companies, holding that much of the judge’s decision was based on an erroneous understanding of “derivative work.”...

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