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Freedom of Linking in Europe?
Recently, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided in Svensson et al v Retriever Sverige that links to authorized works freely available online do not infrin…
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Hollywood's Copyright Lobbyists Are Like Exes Who Won't Give Up
"Recently, I spoke to Andrew Bridges, a copyright lawyer in Silicon Valley and a partner at Fenwick & West. He said that he’s been involved in four cas…
Hollywood's Copyright Lobbyists Are Like Exes Who Won't Give Up
You know when you break up with someone and they just don’t get the message? A few months later, they’re trying again, testing the waters with a few small thing…
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Playing by the Rules: The Success of Unlicensed Spectrum
"Professor Brett Frischmann, affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, provides a succinct explanation of why rule-b…
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FAA Fine Against Drone Photographer Dismissed
""It does mean that if you have this kind of aircraft [the FAA] is not going to be in a position to fine you," Ryan Calo, professor of law at the…
Drones: 1, FAA: 0
Cross-posted from Forbes. An administrative judge invalidated a fine yesterday against an individual who used a small drone for the commercial purpose of takin…
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Spain: YouTube Cannot be Enjoined to Prevent Future Copyright Infringing Uploads
YouTube achieved yet another big win in Spain last January when a court of appeals in Madrid found it not liable of copyright infringement. The case is Telecinc…
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Experts See Autonomous-Car Revolution as Evolution
"Bryant Walker Smith, a researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Automotive Research and the Center for the Internet and Society at Stanford’s law sc…
Reviving Implied Confidentiality
Download the article from the Indiana Journal of Law. The law of online relationships has a significant flaw—it regularly fails to account for the possibility…
Visual and Critical Studies Copyright Forum
View the YouTube video here. The Visual and Critical Studies Copyright Forum features conversations around milestone copyright case studies of significance to…
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Group to U.S. SC: Crack down on patent trolls
"Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer said vague patents are even more prevalent in software, and are a favorite tool of patent trolls. “If you can cleverly craft…
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No Exit: The Digital Edition
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor at Washington University School of Law, predicts that companies will soon adjust offers and prices based on when we are mos…