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Supreme Court Denies Cablevision Review

by Zohar Efroni, posted on June 29, 2009 - 5:51pm

Today the Supreme Court reportedly resolved not to hear the appeal on the Second Circuit’s Cablevision decision. This denial comes shortly after the Court has received the U.S. Government's brief recommending to reject the petition.

A New Study on DRMs and their Impact on Privileged Use

by Zohar Efroni, posted on May 16, 2009 - 11:31am

Patrícia Akester from the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge has just published a new study on DRM. Here’s the abstract:

Pam Samuelson on Google Books

by Zohar Efroni, posted on April 18, 2009 - 2:25pm

Pam Samuelson offers some interesting reflections on the Google book search agreement. Her warnings are worth listening to. Prof. Samuelson is quite critical about the agreement and the new creature it contemplates- the Book Rights Registry (BRR).

Substantive Tags: intellectual property

Copyright reservations, anyone?

by Zohar Efroni, posted on April 2, 2009 - 1:11am

Link to the Greenpeace website here with the actual poster (PDF) featuring the slogan "Not Only Banks, Save Also the Environment!"

Substantive Tags: intellectual property
Free tags: angie-you-can

The Supreme Court Takes Up Copyright Case – Reed Elsevier v. Pogrebin

by Zohar Efroni, posted on March 22, 2009 - 7:46am

On March 2 the Supreme Court granted certiorari on a copyright case covering the question whether section 411(a) of the Copyright Act restricted the subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts over copyright infringement actions.

“Everything. I record everything.”

by Zohar Efroni, posted on March 6, 2009 - 3:37am

This quote belongs to Robin Bienfait, RIM’s Chief Information Office (CIO). RIM makes the BlackBerries, and the title line of this post recites Ms. Bienfait’s answer to the question what information is being recorded on RIM’s internal network (e.g., telephone conversations and email exchange over employees’ devices).

A Key Keywording Decision

by Zohar Efroni, posted on January 23, 2009 - 5:01am

Keywording (aka keying) is the practice of registering with search engine words, terms, acronyms etc. that are protected by trademarks owned by someone else. The registration triggers the advertisement of the registrant and places it on the results page when users enter the keyword into the search box and run their search.

ICANN's Plan for New Top Level Domains

by Zohar Efroni, posted on December 17, 2008 - 3:17am

ICANN’s recent initiative to open the generic domain names space to an application, register-your-favorite-gTLD process struck me as very problematic from the moment I had first heard about it. Ars technica has a great post on the topic, which marks the end of the period during which ICANN has been receiving comments concerning its ambitious plan.

James Gleick on the Google Book Search Deal

by Zohar Efroni, posted on December 2, 2008 - 4:01am

In case you have not seen it yet, here’s James Gleick’s OP-ED in the NYT, discussing the settlement between Google and book authors and publishers. The interesting point he makes is that the new business model should increase the quality of published books.

Substantive Tags: intellectual property
Free tags: Book Search, Google

Music Sampling Does Not Infringe on Copyright, But…

by Zohar Efroni, posted on November 23, 2008 - 6:50am

The German Supreme Court (BGH) clarified last week that sampling does not infringe on copyright in the work from which samples were taken for the purpose of creating a new work. There is a catch hiding in the details, though.

Substantive Tags: intellectual property
Free tags: copyright, sampling
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