The digital image cycle
This is very good, and also raises interesting copyright questions: Read more
Category: Copyright Law
Hating someone doesn’t mean you can infringe her copyright
And that’s why the U.S. District Court issued a restraining order in the Palin vs. Gawker copyright lawsuit. Hat tip to Instapundit. UPDATE: Issues laid... Read more
Other People’s Information Doesn’t Want to be Free
Last night Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled in the Apple case that “reporters who published ‘stolen property’ weren’t entitled to protections. ” B-b-b-b-b-b-but... Read more
Great minds moji alike?
Last September I wrote the following in a letter to a client that asked whether it could use emojis from Apple’s character set in certain... 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 belongs to the ages
Media Wonk: No wonder they call Economics the Dismal Science. At the Internet Video Policy Symposium in Washington yesterday (co-sponsored by Content Agenda), a chorus... 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
Truth, justice and the American way
Jeff Trexler writes about what he describes as an historic decision in a case pitting the heirs of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and DC Comics,... 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
Cease-and-Desist letters as self-executing copyright bombs
Techdirt reports (thanks, Pennywit!) on a law firm that tells recipients of its questionable “C&D” letters that if they dare post them, they’ll be liable... Read more
War Is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength
And free speech is a form of negotiable intellectual property, right? Maybe I can give up the blog. There is no percentage in clever commentary... Read more
Sometimes all of our thoughts are … misgiven?
Misgiven: the wacky 9th Circuit theory of the "inverse ratio" in copyright infringement Read more
Google Books debate
It’s all Google, all the time in our world. (I know that because I did a Google search of our world.) So, naturally, what’s the... Read more
Restating the less-than-obvious
This: MUST READ: @georgemasonlaw professor @devlinhartline offers a devastating critique of @AmLawInst's deeply biased Copyright Restatement Project, which has become increasingly embarrassing as Members of... Read more