Best of 2008: Someone dropped in an extra zero, right? RIGHT?
Posted on October 16, 2008. It’s a month-old story, and how it got past us here notwithstanding, it’s not getting past us now. Per the... Read more
Tag: Copyright Law
Mourning Sonny
Posted on November 17th, 2008: 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... Read more
Getting the timing right on copyright registrations
Marty Schwimmer: IDEA v PETA (SDNY August 298 2009): Plaintiff, no doubt aware that statutory damages are only available for post-registration copyright infringements that are... Read more
Dead hand of copyright limited in UK
Boing Boing reports that the English have done something impossible in our own country: Turned back an effort to extend copyright for, all practical purposes,... Read more
A back seat for copyright
Let’s get apolitically political here (via Instapundit, Mr. Diversity himself): An informal national coalition of Internet pioneers and users with widely divergent political views will... Read more
This Isn’t One, Either. Heavens, No.
Bill Heinze’s I/P Updates blog reports about a trademark registration you can see at the erstwhile movie pirating website LokiTorrent.com. You get a message that... Read more
From “homage” to “infringement”
I’m not so doctrinaire: Sometimes a press release is actually worth posting: For more than thirty years, as hip-hop evolved from the urban streets of... Read more
New Congress still owned by Hollywood
The only reason the new Senate bill clamping down on home recording isn’t completely awful is that it’s probably technologically irrelevant. But it’s still pretty... Read more
What’s your poison? Copyright infringement.
You’ve heard the tale in one form or another: A bar plays a recorded song over its sound system (without permission), then gets sued for... Read more
The skinny on fair use
How much dumb can possibly be fit into a size two? Walter Olson rounds it up: Ralph Lauren lawyers: don’t you dare reproduce our skinny-model... Read more
The Future of “Happy Birthday” Might Be a Present to Us All, Because of Its Past.
As a rule—specifically Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 8(a)(2)—a pleading that states a claim for relief must contain… a short and plain statement of... Read more
Moral high clown
Instapundit.com asks, IS YOUTUBE LOSING ITS SHEEN? “Some observers hoped when the subpoenas came to light that Google’s history of resisting US government subpoenas would... Read more
The merger doctrine and copyright in data
In the New York Law Journal: Copyright does not protect facts, but (with a few notable exceptions such as fashion design) it protects almost any... Read more
Update: Sewage Treatment
I wrote last year about Hollywood’s getting its collective nose out of joint over CleanFlicks, a service that shaves the titillating edges of popular culture... Read more