Author: Vinita Kailasanath DirecTV, Inc., a satellite programming provider, sued two end-users of pirating technology, Hoa Hunyh and Cody Oliver. Defendants f…
Author: Irene Hahn I. Facts and Procedural History The Freecycle Network (TFN) is a nonprofit Arizona corporation “dedicated to encouraging and coordinating t…
Author: Julie Kane Conference America, Inc., an Alabama corporation, contracted with Conexant Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation operating in California, to…
Author: Juliana Tutt In Torres-Negrón v. J & N Records, L.L.C., the court determined two issues: whether the plaintiff’s submission of a tape recording of…
This week, Microsoft dropped its appeal in the European version of the antitrust action against the company that has been proceeding for about ten years. The E…
In this week's Circuit Court column, I write about the legislative battle over changing our communications eavesdropping laws and a related issue of giving…
Virginia Heffernan in the NYT Magazine over the weekend: "Movies and music engage and enlighten me, but they don’t steal my mind... For that I increasingly…
Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information, authored by Prof. Henry Smith was published last summer in the Yale Law Journal. It…
Music sampling has suffered a strange fate at the hands of copyright law. It should fare well under the fair use doctrine. In general, it's very transform…
Plaintiff William V. Aguiar III, sued documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb, alleging that Webb's promotional website and film trailer for his upcoming film infr…
Using a combination of archival, interview and new concert footage as well as photographs, news clippings, and contemporary critical analysis, HOT FLASH tells t…
So I'm 24 hours late, but yesterday was Blog Action Day, which focused on an effort to get people talking about the environment. It's an interesting co…