Charles Colman: Copyright and AI
From LinkedIn. I guess if they offer an embed code, I can, you know, embed this piece by my old friend Professor Charles Colman: Is... Read more
Category: Copyright Law
Avast ye social networker file-sharers!
The Sweden Pirate Bay trial is long over, and the verdict is due in a couple of weeks verdict is long in — if that “really... Read more
Reflections on copyright law
In a Den of Hydralisks. Originally posted 2011-07-22 18:09:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Darth Vader versus the United States of America! (Okay, not really.)
This post discusses what by all rights should be the most exciting case ever heard by any court anywhere. One of the plaintiffs is Darth... Read more
They just mailed it to you. It’s yours. You can sell it.
Eric Johnson: The Ninth Circuit has decided that if you get unsolicited CDs through the mail, you can turn around and sell them on eBay.... Read more
Best of 2011: Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies
First posted September 28, 2011. There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?”... Read more
Mock smocks spur suit
The New York Post reports that Diane von Furstenberg is suing over knockoffs of her designer smock dress things: The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store... Read more
“We cannot allow our brand to be abused”
Originally posted on November 13, 2008: “We cannot allow our brand to be abused.” What “brand” is that? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... Read more
Inside s©oop.
The other day, I received an email from a Registration Specialist, Literary Division at the U.S. Copyright Office. She’d written to ask me to submit... Read more
See Dick Win. Pay, Defendant, Pay.
By now you must have heard about the dustup involving Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The irony for me is that not long after I... Read more
Burning down the house
@ZviSRosen: t may be time to reasses the relationship of copyright law to the physical object - here the master tape. Copyright in audio and video is fundamentally different from traditional copyright - the only real analog I can think of is a painting Read more
YouTube, other websites and the DMCA
Lee Gesmer at MassLawBlog explains why the hullaballoo about YouTube’s exposure to copyright liability is overstated. I agree with his analysis and have lots of... Read more
IP issues for photographers
Bill Heinze has a great item linking to an article on the World Intellectual Property Organization website called “Legal Pitfalls in Taking or Using Photographs... Read more
Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies
There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?” in VentureBeat: Ten years ago,... Read more