Google Books settlement takes it on the Chin
I raised questions about the Google Books settlement ages ago. Now some of them have been answered, and Judge Denny Chin’s answer is “no”: While... Read more
Tag: Copyright
Infinite loop (updated and bumped)
Originally published on July 22, 2011; see update at bottom!) It can only mean one thing when you read this in a news article: On... Read more
Best of 2011: What “beating Righthaven” means
First posted November 3, 2011. Instapundit links to Donald Douglas’s blog post, Beating Righthaven. Excerpt: Righthaven files “no warning” lawsuits. That is, it gives no advance... Read more
“Aereo” smiths (part one)
UPDATE, June 25, 2014: The Supreme Court has ruled. [Still, read this. Then read this. — RDC] If you are a real IP lawyer, or... Read more
Righthaven – Media Bloggers Association files amicus brief
I’ve written a little bit about the Righthaven lawsuits before. Now, as reported in the Las Vegas Sun, on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association... Read more
If 10,000 lawsuits don’t stop it
Certainly another 8,000 should do the trick! Read more
Copyright injunctions Рplus ̤a change
Last summer I mentioned the new law in the Ninth Circuit — or, as I insisted, the clarification of the existing law — to the... Read more
“Happy Birthday”: Second verse, same as the first.
While I wasn’t looking, the lead plaintiff in the class action to have the song “Happy Birthday to You” declared to be in the public... Read more
Oral argument tomorrow at the Second Circuit — Ochre LLC (Copyright – Useful articles – Lighting – Fashion Design)
Tomorrow morning I will appear before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which will hear argument in Ochre LLC v. Deutsche... Read more
The making of a martyr?
In July of 2011 I wrote about the case of Aron Swartz, arrested at the time for stealing more than 4 million articles from JSTOR,... Read more
Moldy oldies
Cohen the “Trademark Attorney” (his SEO people told him to sign blog posts as “Trademark Attorney” I guess; I think it worked, too!) has this... Read more
Best of 2011: Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies
First posted September 28, 2011. There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?”... Read more
