(United States Ninth Circuit) - In an action under the Copyright Act,alleging defendant infringed the copyright on plaintiff's computer aided design program by downloading an unauthorized copy of the program and importing and distributing within the United States program output generated by a Chinese contractor using an unauthorized copy of the program, the district court's summary judgment is: 1) affirmed in allotment on the importation-and-distribution claim, or where the copyright in the program did not extend to the program’s output of images and files; and 2) reversed in allotment as to the downloading claim,where there was a material question of fact whether defendant's download was more than an insignificant violation of plaintiff's copyright.
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