Copyright Owners Must Consider the Fair Use Doctrine when Issuing DMCA Takedown Notices
Author: Stuart Loh The plaintiff, Stephanie Lenz, posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her children dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.” Univer…
Author: Stuart Loh The plaintiff, Stephanie Lenz, posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her children dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.” Univer…
Author: Matt Kellogg The Lexicon originated from author Steven Vander Ark's website, The Harry Potter Lexicon, an online reference for the fictional world…
Author: Robert Orlando Lopez This was a case of first impression for fair use as a defense against common law copyright infringement of a sound recording. Fo…
Author: Allison Pedrazzi Helfrich Hill v. Stubhub Jeffrey Hill and Lisa Hill brought suit against Stubhub, an online marketplace for reselling tickets, after…
Author: José Mauro Decoussau Machado Io produces, markets, and distributes adult entertainment products. In its lawsuit against Veoh, it maintained that a var…
Author: Yuki Ide According to the FCC’s Order, P2P applications such as BitTorrent have become increasingly popular in recent years and have developed into a c…
Author: Jenny Kim Jaynes was convicted in 2004 of sending large volumes of spam from his Raleigh computer to AOL addresses on the company’s Virginia-based serv…
The German blogsphere is buzzing about the new opinion handed down by a court in Hamburg, finding Google’s image search infringing. The court agreed with the co…
Michael Savage has one of the most popular shows on the radio. He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind, no matter how controversial his views. He should be…
Not all campaign controversies fill the national stage. But this one should get national attention for being so abusive. Mark Blanchfield is challenging Georg…
Prof. Lessig’s essay in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal is available here. One thing that caught my eye was an anonymous reader’s comment, containing the follow…
Each day the stock markets trend lower, seeking floors, comfort. A sense of how bad it could get leads to further erosions of global equity values and banks un…