In the maw of the beasts – Copyright in Cambridge, this Wednesday
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014, I will be participating in the statutory damages segment of the “Second Green Paper Roundtable” in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What is... Read more
Tag: Statutory damages
Money for nothing
Dead horse? You’d think so. Copyright statutory damages, that is. We’ve been there, and done that, right? Not according to Larry Zerner, who says the... Read more
Massive Attack: Analyzing mass copyright infringement campaigns
I am about to give my presentation on a panel at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society of the USA at the Sagamore resort... Read more
Suing bloggers for dollars
Glenn Reynolds links to a an article in Wired about a newspaper “chain”‘s — actually, lawyer Steve Gibson’s — “new business model”: Suing bloggers who post newspaper... Read more
IP piggies
Ars Technica: Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The... Read more
Best of 2014: The PTO’s Cambridge Roundtable: Read all about it
Originally posted on July 30, 2014. And so it was that, as previously blogged, on June 25, 2014, I participating in the copyright statutory damages... Read more
“A crippling but necessary deterrent”
Last week, on July 19th, the Southern District of New York put the pedal to the Lanham Act metal in in Coach v. Allen. It’s a summary judgment... Read more
The PTO’s Cambridge Roundtable: Read all about it
And so it was that, as previously blogged, on June 25, 2014, I participating in the copyright statutory damages segment of the PTO’ / Department... Read more
Little claims, big idea?
A major theme around here is the proposition that copyright law encourages litigation of even the most tenuous plaintiffs’ claims, mainly because of the rules... Read more
Sarah Palin copyright kerfuffle
I was quoted at length by my friend and client Bill Jacobson at Legal Insurrection about this. So there’s not so much more else to know.... Read more
Best of 2012: Little claims, big idea?
Originally posted September 12, 2012. A major theme around here is the proposition that copyright law encourages litigation of even the most tenuous plaintiffs’ claims,... Read more
Statutory damages in copyright, and the Tenenbaum case
Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation: Doug Lichtman out at UCLA sends this along: Joel Tenenbaum looks a lot like every other defendant who has... Read more