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
Tag: Copyright 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
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
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
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
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
And worth every penny!
Free (and apolitical) IP advice for bloggers over at Right Wing News. Read more
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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