Category: Damages
Money for nothing
Originally posted 2012-06-21 10:41:43. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDead horse? You’d think so. Copyright statutory damages, that is. We’ve been there, and done that, right? […]
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The Nutty Ninth
Originally posted 2007-12-21 11:32:26. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMichael Atkins: The Ninth Circuit yesterday addressed the question: “whether an award of statutory damages for trademark […]
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Oy, Tenenbaum
Originally posted 2011-10-04 18:43:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterA while ago I wrote a little piece linking to Doug Lichtman’s exploration of the Tenenbaum copyright case, […]
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The new fuzzy logic of copyright damages (Best of 2016)
First posted on June 17, 2016. What’s all this about the Supreme Court and copyright damages? Pretty thorough analysis of yesterday’s SCOTUS #Kirtsaeng judgment#copyright https://t.co/IPXtq9xFH3 […]
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The new fuzzy logic of copyright damages
What’s all this about the Supreme Court and copyright damages? Pretty thorough analysis of yesterday’s SCOTUS #Kirtsaeng judgment#copyright https://t.co/IPXtq9xFH3 — Managing IP (@ManagingIP) June 17, […]
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Best of 2009: “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury, Part 1
A lot of people, including judges, lawyers and civilians, don’t seem to really understand what statutory damages are all about. They are not supposed to […]
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Continue reading » Righthaven – Media Bloggers Association files amicus brief
I’ve written a little bit about the Righthaven lawsuits before. Now, as reported in the Las Vegas Sun, on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association […]
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Best of 2013: The superheroes of trademarks
Originally published on April 15, 2013.What could be more superheroic, after all, than splitting one trademark into two sources of origin? Maybe trying to make […]
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Continue reading » Copyright injunctions – plus ça change
Last summer I mentioned the new law in the Ninth Circuit — or, as I insisted, the clarification of the existing law — to the […]
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The superheroes of trademarks
What could be more superheroic, after all, than splitting one trademark into two sources of origin? Maybe trying to make some sense out of how […]
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Default of da system? Or, “Tally Ho!”
Via this patently entertaining post I was alerted to this somewhat more analytical one by Venkat Balasubramani, with Eric Goldman riding shotgun, decrying the $100 million default judgment […]
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Continue reading » “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury, Part 1
A lot of people, including judges, lawyers and civilians, don’t seem to really understand what statutory damages are all about. They are not supposed to […]
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Continue reading » “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury, Part 2
(Part 1 is here.) So. In light of the decision in the Thomas-Rasset case, which I first rounded up in part 1 of this first-ever […]
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