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
Category: Copyright Law
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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