Stanford CIS

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Salinger v. Colting, et al.

When J.D. Salinger sued to stop the publication of Swedish author Fredrik Colting’s book 60 Years Later: Coming through the Rye alleging it infringed his copyri…

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Always On's Stanford Summit Next Week

Next week is the Stanford Summit hosted by Always On. It's been a great event in the past and I bet it'll be a good one this year. In this economic envi…

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Amazon Burns Orwell's E-Books

Everyone knows Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451.  First published in 1953, Bradbury imagined a world in which government “firemen” could enter your home at an…

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Stamps, Sculpture and Free Expression

We filed an amicus brief today in Gaylord v. U.S., a potentially important but little-noticed fair use case on appeal in the Federal Circuit. We filed it on beh…

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Gaylord v. U.S. Postal Service

The U.S. Postal Service created a commemorative stamp from a photograph of a sculpture called, which is part of the Korean War Veterans’ Memorial in Washington…

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Regulating Search Engine Optimization

From an anonymous executive, today on Tech Crunch: "Imagine, if you will, that the entire Internet is contained within a single continent. That continent…