
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
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
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
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
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
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
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
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
Free (and apolitical) IP advice for bloggers over at Right Wing News. Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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