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Friday’s Endnotes – 08/23/13 23 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
Google and friends spin search piracy study — Vox Indie’s Ellen Seidler thoroughly eviscerates the white paper on search engines’ role in facilitating online infringement released earlier this summer ...
Blurred Lines: Digital Sampling, Bridgeport, and Substantial Similarity 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The news hit on Friday that recording artist Robin Thicke (along with Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris) has filed a lawsuit against Bridgeport Music and Marvin Gaye’s family seeking a declaration...
Friday’s Endnotes – 08/16/13 16 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
Obama’s intellectual property chief steps down — A sincere thank you and best wishes to Victoria Espinel, who, it was announced this week, is stepping down from her post as Intellectual Property Enfor...
Further Thoughts on Fair Use and the First Amendment 13 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Cross-posted on the Law Theories blog. As a follow-up to my last post about why copyright is a right and fair use is a privilege, I wanted to respond to some of issues brought up by people on the ‘ne...
Cariou v Prince: Transforming the Fair Use Inquiry 12 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
A number of interesting and potentially important fair use decisions have been released by courts in the past several months. I had originally planned on discussing all in one fell swoop, but as I sta...
Friday’s Endnotes – 08/09/13 9 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
Terry Hart is on vacation, so I have the great pleasure of presenting this week’s Endnotes. First Amendment Constraints on Copyright After Golan v. Holder – Professor Neil Netanel has a fascinating l...
Why Copyright is a Right and Fair Use is a Privilege 7 Aug 2013 | 11:07 pm
Cross-posted on the Law Theories blog. One often hears the argument from copyright opponents that copyright is a privilege and not a right. Rick Falkvinge says that copyright is a “government-granted...
Friday’s Endnotes – 08/02/13 2 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Control is Fundamental to Copyright Theory — Devlin Hartline continues a discussion began last week when some criticized the assertion, made during Thursday’s copyright review hearing, that copyright ...
Friday’s Endnotes – 07/26/13 26 Jul 2013 | 05:10 pm
Innovation in America: The Role of Copyrights — Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held its latest hearing in its ongoing review o...
Fourth Circuit: Clickwrap Agreement Fulfills Writing Requirement for Copyright Transfer 23 Jul 2013 | 07:07 pm
Cross-posted on the Law Theories blog. In an issue of first impression at the appellate court level, the Fourth Circuit last week held that a clickwrap agreement could satisfy Section 204(a)’s requir...
