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Category: Copyright Law

Posted on May 28, 2023 Copyright Law Free Expression

Moral rights in Massachusetts

Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law:  A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual Rights Act, which–well, Lee says... Read more

Posted on May 18, 2023 Copyright Law Fair Use

Publishers vs. YouTube

Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review: The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether... Read more

Posted on May 12, 2023 Copyright Law

No more free ride

Attributor is a new program that online publishers can and do use to trace their verbal content across the Internet and see who is using... Read more

Posted on May 2, 2023 Copyright Law

Waiting for the Internet guy?

Is the Internet the same thing as cable TV? In case that was a serious question in your mind, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals... Read more

Posted on April 26, 2023 Copyright Law

Register that copyright, and ignore that man behind the screen!

OK, so I’m mixing metaphors on one or more axes at the same time. But this August, 2005 posting from Bill Patry, while not very... Read more

Posted on April 24, 2023 Copyright Law

Holy copyright baloney, Batman! (Best of 2016)

Originally posted on February 3, 2016. It’s not as if I’ve got a problem with DC Comics or something, but, well, here you go.  They’re... Read more

Posted on April 7, 2023 Copyright Law

Ads for pirates

Imagine a world where producers and owners of TV shows, movies and the not only upload full-length copyrighted video content onto the Web in the... Read more

Posted on April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 Copyright Law

Copyright Office: “Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence”

I’m just the messenger! This came out in the Federal Register on March 16, 2023: Read more

Posted on February 10, 2023February 20, 2023 Copyright Law

Ben Stein trips over IP

Walter Olson: Ouch.  Ben is an odd guy. UPDATED:  But evidently he — or, more likely, his “people” — is not such the slouch in... Read more

high angle photo of robot
Posted on January 23, 2023January 24, 2023 Copyright Law

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

Posted on January 11, 2023January 23, 2023 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

Posted on January 9, 2023 Copyright Law

Reflections on copyright law

In a Den of Hydralisks. Originally posted 2011-07-22 18:09:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

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Posted on December 14, 2022 Copyright Law

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

Posted on December 9, 2022 Copyright Law

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

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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