Law360, New York (November 11, 2009, 4:41 PM ET) -- RealNetworks Inc. has fired the opening shot in its appeal of a preliminary injunction blocking sales of its RealDVD applications for ripping a DVD to a hard drive, saying the federal judge who granted the order didn't consider whether there was a demonstrable likelihood of irreparable harm.
The district court declined to consider the public interest in exercising its fair-use right to copy personal DVDs, a right recognized by both the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and the Copyright Act, RealNetworks said in its opening brief in...
RealNetworks Goes To Bat For DVD Ripper In 9th Circ.
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