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Tag: Copyright Law

Posted on June 21, 2012 Copyright Law Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2009: “Intellectual property and its digestion”

This was first posted on February 20, 2009: Back and forth in in social networking space — once Facebook, I digest some key ingredients of... Read more

Posted on July 21, 2011January 12, 2013 Distribution systems

The continuing STOR-y

I barely had time to get my arms around the story of Aron Swartz, who was arrested for downloading a ton of stuff off the... Read more

Posted on June 7, 2011 Copyright Law

Come again?

Reuters reports: Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday a proposed French law that would force Apple to make sure that songs bought on its iTunes... Read more

Posted on November 23, 2010January 26, 2015 Politics

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... Read more

Posted on September 22, 2010October 5, 2010 Copyright Law

Creative license

David Donoghue reports on an interesting copyright issue blowing around Chicago, my home away from home: The Chicago Tribune‘s Ameet Sachdev reported that an ongoing... Read more

Posted on July 29, 2010August 4, 2010 Blogging Copyright Law Fair Use Journalism

And worth every penny!

Free (and apolitical) IP advice for bloggers over at Right Wing News. Read more

Posted on July 23, 2010July 27, 2010 Copyright Law

Despite Demise of Real Property, Intellectual Property Doing Fine

As predicted in this space, the Supreme Court has ruled against Grokster, according to the AP. Says Justice Souter, “We hold that one who distributes... Read more

Posted on June 1, 2010June 6, 2010 Copyright Law

“We also invented the color of ink”

Greg Beck: This has to be in the top five dumbest copyright threats I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying a lot. I’ll agree that Greg... Read more

Posted on May 2, 2010May 3, 2010 Copyright Law Fair Use Free Expression

Gin a body meet a body

Body #1 being the “Mother Court,” as it describes itself–the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.   Body #2 being... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on April 28, 2010October 18, 2016 Literature

Taking the catcher out of the rye

On July first of last year, the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York (hotbed of intellectual... Read more

Posted on April 7, 2010April 8, 2010 Copyright Law Fair Use Internet Law

Patry and “The Copyright Wars”

The Copyright Clearance Center’s Beyond the Book feature just uploaded a podcast featuring Bill Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, copyright treatiste and, of course,... Read more

Posted on March 7, 2010March 7, 2010 Copyright Law

Mash this

But can you, really, dance to it?  Alan Wexelblat says yes, but the copyright part?  Some pretty complicated steps: I think that modern dance music,... Read more

Posted on December 23, 2009October 28, 2013 Fashion Law

So shoe me!

Staci Riordan reports on the big shoe-vs.-shoe design lawsuit everyone’s talking about — invoking copyright plus one Lanham Act and two New York law varieties of... Read more

Posted on November 24, 2009November 29, 2009 Copyright Law

Ode to the Code

Yehuda Berlinger, whose poetic version of the Lanham Act we linked to anon, also did the Copyright Act last summer.  Somehow I missed it, but... Read more

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