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No hits, no runs, no infringement?

By Elizabeth Rader on November 28, 2003 at 7:07 pm

Chris Sprigman alerted me to Major League Baseball's attempt to misuse copyright in its broadcasts to try to prevent sports websites from providing facts, real time, about ball games, play by play, urging that such speech constitutes an exhibition of copyrighted work.
Chris also pointed out a Second Circuit decision about basketball that makes it pretty clear that MLB's argument should be scored an error. Download file. Read more about No hits, no runs, no infringement?

Judge Posner Chases A Wild Hare

By Elizabeth Rader on November 26, 2003 at 11:20 am

Patent Avenger Jason Schultz is back from the East and through his blog I found Assessment Technologies v. WIREdata, Inc., No. 03-2061, 7th Cir. November 25, 2003, a case "about the attempt of a copyright owner to use copyright law to block access to data that not only are neither copyrightable nor copyrighted but were not created or obtained by the copyright owner." Naturally I was intrigued.
Here's the opinion Read more about Judge Posner Chases A Wild Hare

Diebold Won't Sue

By Jennifer Granick on November 24, 2003 at 4:03 pm

Diebold filed papers with the Court today indicating that it "has decided not to take the additional step of suing for copyright infringement for the materials at issue. Given the widespread availability of the stolen materials, Diebold has further decided to withdraw its existing DMCA notifications and not to issue any further ones for those materials." Download file. Read more about Diebold Won't Sue

CBI Files Comments on Historic Notice & Recordkeeping in Copyright Office

By Elizabeth Rader on November 24, 2003 at 2:20 pm

The Copyright Office is still trying to figure out what to do about back recordkeeping supposed to be provided by webcasters from the passage of the DMCA in October, 1998 through N, where N equals whenever the Copyright Office gets around to promulgating its interim regulations on Notice and Recordkeeping. Toward that end the Office sought comments on what to do about past recordkeeping (which to a large extent doesn't exist). Read more about CBI Files Comments on Historic Notice & Recordkeeping in Copyright Office

Dave Winer

By Lauren Gelman on November 24, 2003 at 12:10 pm

You've heard of weblogs, you've read about them, and you've probably even seen a few. But just how does one 'blog'? Are there rules of etiquette? What's the technology behind the blog, and what new technology is being developed for blogging? How is the format being used to communicate in new ways? Come get the answers from Dave Winer, publisher of the longest currently running weblog on the internet! Read more about Dave Winer

Censored Dance-why Fair Use plus $3.25 will get you a nice latte

By Elizabeth Rader on November 24, 2003 at 11:45 am

Saturday's New York Times had a nice article by Dinitia Smith about Carol Loeb Shloss's new biography Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake. While many books about Joyce have seen his daughter Lucia as a sad, rejected, madwoman in the attic, Shloss proves that Lucia, who was a brilliant author in her own right and a gifted dancer, was a muse to Joyce and an inspiration for Finnegan's Wake. Read more about Censored Dance-why Fair Use plus $3.25 will get you a nice latte

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