DMCA takedown backlash
The EFF is suing Viacom over their DMCA takedown notice for a Stephen Colbert parody clip on YouTube which EFF says is non-infringing. Viacom sent... Read more
Category: Copyright Law
Common Law Copyright Makes it On Broadway
The online New York Law Journal (registration with a credit card for at least a free trial required) reports as follows: ALBANY: In an unprecedented... Read more
Bag It
Remember Vuitton v. Dooney? It’s over. Reports the Shiny Style blog: A judge ruled in favor of Dooney & Bourke in the trademark dispute involving... 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
Organization for Transformative Works
This is very interesting: The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing... Read more
Copyright in cease and desist letters? Not quite.
A law firm’s press release says: The US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand letter... Read more
No joke
Noel Sheppard (via Insty) smells a rat: [T]he photo sharing website Flickr removed the Obama Joker picture that was later transformed into posters showing up in... Read more
ReDigi Redux: A Decision in Two Dialogues
There is a case so plainly inappropriate for a fair use defense, and this is that case. Read more
Someone dropped in an extra zero, right? RIGHT?
It’s a month-old story, and how it got past us here notwithstanding, it’s not getting past us now. Per the ABA Journal, remember the Bratz... 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
A quick scan of the law regarding copyright and the public domain images
The story’s all over the Net, but here’s as good a take on it as any, from Mike Masnick at Techdirt: Derrick Coetzee, a software... Read more
Copyright law is hard
But it’s hard to have sympathy for the MPAA about its being accused of infringement, since its insane shotgun appraoch to enforcement is so just... Read more
Ben Stein trips over IP
Walter Olson: With all his lawyer chums from Milberg-witness days, you’d think Ben Stein could have saved the makers of his creationist movie from stumbling... Read more
Oh, bother!
The Supreme Court declined yesterday to get involved in the Winnie the Pooh litigation, despite the opportunity it presented for another swat at the Ninth... Read more