They always get their man
Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they? A few years ago, criminal enterprise... Read more
Category: Copyright Law
Copywrite
This Copywrite blog is really good. Originally posted 2009-12-22 17:19:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
A Short Novel About a Girl and Her Copyright Problem
I, Matthew David Brozik, your dedicated lieutenant blawger, have written a novel. Actually, I’ve written three. And, also, this one—Taking Ivy Seriously—is really a novella,... Read more
Best of 2010: Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010
First posted on January 17, 2010. From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list. One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and... Read more
Mourning Sonny
Posted on November 17th, 2008: No, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal... Read more
The AP, copyright, and the bloggers
You can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic…... Read more
A back seat for copyright
Let’s get apolitically political here (via Instapundit, Mr. Diversity himself): An informal national coalition of Internet pioneers and users with widely divergent political views will... Read more
Registration and copyrights
What’s all this I hear about the Supreme Court saying copyrights having to be registered for some reason? This thread provides a good summary of... Read more
Lawyers of steel
This story is all over the everywhere; I’ll let Eriq Gardner sum it up, as he does so very nicely: Warner Bros. has won a... 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
Unsettling settlement
Two years ago I expressed my own criticism, and later rounded up a number of other views, of the case brought by J.D. Salinger against a... Read more
Best of 2012: The borders of Terpsichore
First published August 8, 2012. My über-sharp friend Oliver Herzfeld, moving up in the world, has written an article in Forbes magazine on a recent Copyright Office policy... Read more
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
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