Vargas v. BT - District Court Order Granting Summary Judgment in Favor of Defendant BT
District Court order granting summary judgment in BT's favor, and dismissing the case in its entirety. * Publication Type:Litigation Brief * Publication…
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Fair Use Project Profiled on NPR's Morning Edition
NPR's Morning Edition ran an extended profile of the Fair Use Project and some of the clients it has worked with. Listen to it here.…
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Universal Music's Second Strike
Last year, Universal Music threatened Javier Prato with legal action for using "I Will Survive" in a humorous video posted on YouTube. It retreated a…
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Spend an hour in a virtual world this week
Join us for a conversation at State of play academy. All you need to do is: (1) download the software. (only works on PC or PC emulator-- like Mac running boot…
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TWiL on ecommerce
The latest episode of Ian Ballon as a guest and discusses the latest in electronic commerce or "Internet Law". The episode starts off with a brief dis…
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Copyright in derivative works vs. collective works
About a week ago the Ninth Circuit issued this ruling that analyzes the difference between a collective work and a derivative work in a copyright infringement c…
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Exciting Interational Online Competition -- Win an All-Expense Paid Trip to Hong Kong!
I am one of the organizers for the InternetBar.org competition designed to encourage ideas and interaction around the problem of creating a trusted online envir…
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Digging the grave for next-generation DVD TPMs?
That a string of digits-and-letters receives the honor to be composed into a song is, I think, a noteworthy development. Sure, copyright law is about fostering…
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Prof. Michael Geist at CFP
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Supreme Court’s Patent Cases: Angels? Dancing? On?
I’ve just read the opinions released on Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court in two separate patent cases, KSR v. Teleflex and Microsoft v. AT&T. Though the bu…
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Rules for the Revolution - Trademark episode with Marty Schwimmer
Episode 13 of Rules for the Revolution covers issues related to trademarks, corporate names, and domain names, and includes a brief discussion about the initial…
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Be carefull out there, dear bloggers
I am echoing here a post from Science Commons’ blog featuring another juicy story of apparent abuse of copyrights against a science student at the University of…