Stanford CIS

Elizabeth Rader

Non-Residential Fellow

Recent articles

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UnCommon Soiree

Sunday night I went up to 111 Minna Gallery for Creative Commons's one year anniversary bash.   It's inspiring to see how people are using the cc licens…

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Pennie feels the Pinch

Pennie & Edmonds, one of the biggest intellectual property firms in New York, announced today that it will be closing its doors New Year's Eve.  Many la…

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Curiouser and curiouser

Listening to NPR this weekend I caught an interview with an artist who has just created a new pop-up book of Alice in Wonderland.  I thought this was a fine ill…

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I have a Bentley that color!

Here's a nice article by Melissa Dribben from the Philadelphia Enquirer about Bikram Choudhury, Bikram yoga and Open Source Yoga Unity's case.   The cur…

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Legs to Stand On

Open Source Yoga Unity v. Bikram Choudhury moved forward again yesterday with the filing of OSYU's Amended Complaint On November 13th at the Case Management…

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Case Finally Deemed Served on Defendant

While waiting for service under the Hague Convention to be completed, we served Defendant, located in London, via International Federal Express on November 17 a…

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Peter Pan Case Is Finally Served

Somma v. GOSH is a case about defending the rights of authors to write new stories about characters in the public domain, like Peter Pan.  While waiting for ser…

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No hits, no runs, no infringement?

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, r…