Lessons for Online Piracy Legislation from Comments on Copyright Small Claims
The draft legislation called Online Protection & Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN) is having its moment in the sun as an approach favored by Google and other internet powers who are said to...
View ArticlePatent Misuse Defense and the Future of Traditional Publishing
An ITC ruling for Microsoft and against Barnes & Noble’s patent misuse defense on Tuesday comes on the heels of a thoughtful NYT piece linking the future of traditional publishing to B&N’s...
View ArticleGoogle Argues Authors Want Book Scanning Project to Continue
Amidst the simmering online piracy debate, Google tossed an attention-getting brief last Wednesday opposing class certification into the lawsuit aimed at stopping its Google Books Project. The Authors...
View ArticleAccess Government Funded Research Free Online—The Next Battle?
The SOPA protest victory may be the energy behind coordinated legislative strikes in the six year old effort to make large amounts of government funded research available to all online. The Federal...
View ArticleToward a Copyright Unified Field Theory–Part 1
A cluster of recent litigation reports leaves me more discouraged than ever by the lack of agreement about the purpose of federal copyright law. We need a reset, and the adversarial process isn’t...
View ArticleKinder, Gentler Illegal Download Prevention?
Before SOPA and PIPPA’s fifteen minutes of fame, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) was formed last September as an experiment in cooperation between content provider representatives and...
View ArticleToward A General Theory of Copyright–Part 1(a)
Exploring our lack of basic consensus on copyright , I wrote in Part 1 that “while the news was still all about the dramatic Megaupload arrests for massive internet copyright infringement, a major...
View ArticleBurberry v. Bogart and the Patchwork of Right of Publicity Laws
I learned from IPLaw360 that iconic and excellent British luxury brand Burberry filed a declaratory judgment lawsuit yesterday against the entity asserting rights of publicity in the persona of acting...
View ArticleVillage People Artist Prevails on Copyright Termination
Copyright termination rights are an old idea designed to benefit the creators of works who gave their copyrights to the business side of a project in the form of a publisher, record company, movie...
View ArticleCelebrity Wedding Photo Fights Then and Now: Own the Copyrights
Reblogged from Bose Intellectual Property Blog: On June 27, 1993, two talented people were married north of Indianapolis and drove to what was called Deer Creek Music Center for a concert by one of...
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