“Aereo” smiths (part two)
In part one of this post I laid out the following propositions: (a) We operate in a common-law system, so want and expect judges to... Read more
Tag: Copyright
“Tolerated use”
Tim Wu (via Glenn Reynolds) says that we have to deal with the fuzzy logic of copyright enforcement in order properly to understand how copyright... Read more
Digital Analogy: Behind the Scenes of Aereo
"Judge Roberts, I remember Sputnik. I knew Sputnik. Sputnik was a friend of mine. Judge Roberts, the respondent’s system is no Sputnik." Read more
Best of 2011: Infinite loop
First posted (in updated form) on September 20, 2011.(Originally published on July 22, 2011; see update at bottom!) It can only mean one thing when... Read more
Overblogged
We wouldn’t that happening to you or to me. So this week, while I am guest-blogging at Overlawyered, I will probably not have all that... Read more
Authors Guild v. Google: Judge Chin’s decision in favor of Google Books
Anyone looking for the Author’s Guild v. Google decision on the Southern District of New York website is going to have a hard time: It’s... Read more
Worth a thousand words
How much use is fair use — i.e., permissible use — when it comes to graphics and photographs you “find” on the Internet? Not too... Read more
What web developers should know about copyright
For some reason (maybe a weeklong trial?) I kind of missed the Megaupload story from mid-January. My bad. What story? Oh, this Megaupload story: Police... Read more
Norman Blagman Versus the Whole Digital Music Industry: Round 1 to Blagman.
I can’t write a better introductory sentence than Judge Andrew Carter of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York did... Read more
Best of 2012: Moldy oldies
Originally posted March 29, 2012. Cohen the “Trademark Attorney” (his SEO people told him to sign blog posts as “Trademark Attorney” I guess; I think... Read more
“I don’t even own a TV”—Aereo (Part Two)
Familiarity of the reader with Part One is presumed. As I read the Second Circuit decision, I was pleased—for reasons I can’t quite, and won’t bother... Read more
About Face
Originally posted 2009-02-18 10:41:19. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The New York Times reports the latest on the Facebook “license” story: After a wave of... Read more
Rah rah raw
TTABlog declines to comment on S. Ct. cheerleader uniform decision. — TTABlog (@TTABlog) March 22, 2017 Indeed. LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® is also not ready to... Read more
Fight for your right to parody. Or don’t.
Sometimes, just when a copyright dispute is getting very interesting, the parties go and do the unthinkable: They resolve their differences like reasonable people, and... Read more