Best of 2012: Not my money
Originally posted February 21, 2012. Last June, blogging about my presentation to the Copyright Society on the Righthaven litigation, I wrote the following: This brings... Read more
Category: Copyright Law
Free Expression vs. Copyright in the Digital Age
Here’s a “sneak preview” that was excerpted [when this item was first posted] from a paper to be delivered at Emory University’s Conference on Free... Read more
I can’t stands no more!
The Popeye copyrights are now in the public domain in Europe. That’s copyright, not trademark. As Mark Owen, an IP lawyer at the UK firm... Read more
Goodbye, dolly
Pamela Chestek reports on the dizzying fallout of the Bratz litigation. Originally posted 2012-12-27 15:00:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Copyright protection for blogs
Sarah Bird explains how to do it right. She explains why she thinks you would possibly want to bother here, conveniently omitting the uncomfortable fact... Read more
Copyright: Creative is as creative does
Most of my writing here about copyright law concerns the misuse and abuse of its heavily pro-plaintiff provisions such that there is little or no... Read more
YouTube, other websites and the DMCA
Lee Gesmer at MassLawBlog explains why the hullaballoo about YouTube’s exposure to copyright liability is overstated. I agree with his analysis and have lots of... Read more
Hot or not?
The new edition of the Federalist Society’s Engage magazine has a very good article by David Applegate and Ryan Schermerhorn about the “hot news exception” that... Read more
Tattoo You
Donna Wentworth writes on Corante > Copyfight > about a lawsuit by a tattoo artist against roundballer Rasheed Wallace, the extraordinarily large human billboard for... Read more
Keller & Cunard Go Deep on Copyright Law
I used to participate in a general-interest blog, back when my world was quite different, and my colleague over there, Dean Esmay (whose world and blog... Read more
Ghost Rider vs. Free Riders?
News from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals: The man who might have created the Marvel Comics superhero/anti-hero Ghost Rider… well, might in fact have... Read more
Second Life case settles
The IMPACT® blog reports a settlement in the Second Life dispute. Originally posted 2010-03-28 10:00:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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
Sidewalk Theory: Scraping RSS, and More Google
Apropos the Google / APF contretemps, Kevin Reynen of the Sidewalk Theory blog recently blogged on the concept of data (or content) scraping, which he... Read more