Semi-monthly off the wall tweets
Here’s what I have been chirping about lately: RT @ArsLaw: Tenenbaum: $675K stat. dams absurd; I caused $21 in losses | Ok, even I don’t... Read more
Tag: Copyright Law
Little people, big lawsuits
The Washington Post reports on legal action taken by ordinary folk against Big IP Content Generating institutions for lifting and using “user-generated” content, i.e., pictures... Read more
“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... 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
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
Best of 2009: Properly classified — there’s no “significant doubt”
CORY DOCTOROW: Obama administration: releasing details of secret copyright treaty endangers”national security.” Er, what? Good question, Instapundit. Click through — the original story is here, at... Read more
Mourning Sonny
No, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal day of downhill skiing, we’d... Read more
Manchester Cathedral, you’re driving me crazy
Originally posted 2007-06-14 11:42:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Manchester Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral — same thing. We’ve written in the past — well, not us,... 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
Righthaven Agonistes
Is all this copyright jurisprudence lollipops and rainbows? Let us reflect a little on what Righthaven has wrought, so far. Wired weighs in on the... Read more
More on the “secret copyright treaty”
Is it really that bad? Last March I took a quick look at what some of the anti’s were saying, and focused mainly on the... 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