An Open Internet Law Casebook

Resource 9 . 2 . 3

25 minutes

MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

Michael Risch

A common licensing tactic is to use the threat of copyright infringement to force compliance with license terms. This is how open source software works, for example. This excerpt of the Glider case considers the copyright implications associated with the World of Warcraft EULA, and whether use of a bot constitutes copyright infringement.

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

629 F.3d 928

Nos. 09-15932, 09-16044

2010-12-14

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