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Facebook, Congress and the First Amendment
The Facebook Trending Topics controversy has been analyzed from many angles, but there's been virtually no attention paid to the single most troubling aspec…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Taplin's False Choice Between Music and Technology
Jonathan Taplin’s op-ed (Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t) in the May 20 edition of The New York Times perpetuates a powerful dichotomy that has come t…
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Attorneys Joust Over Copyright Law's Legacy
"Attorney Andrew Bridges with Fenwick & West said adjudication is the only fair way to handle accusations that can lead to being kicked off the Interne…
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Getty Images Takes Google Grievances to EU
"The type of claim Getty is making "failed in the United States in Perfect 10 v. Google," noted Ben Depoorter, Sunderland Chair at UC Hastings Co…
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Can't find Prince on Spotify? Here's how to listen
""And there's no way this would be some kind of market substitute for the original Prince song", Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Daniel…
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DMCA Classic, DMCA Turbo: Major new empirical research on notice and takedown operations
Good data about Notice and Takedown can be hard to find. Jennifer Urban and Laura Quilter’s seminal 2006 study has long been the gold standard, combining rigoro…
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Patent owner balks at fee award, cites newly issued—and similar—patent
"In an e-mail to Ars regarding the reconsideration request, EFF lawyer Daniel Nazer pointed out that Garfum already argued this application was relevant to…
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Can Silly Patents Help Fight Frivolous Lawsuits?
"Daniel Nazer, the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a high-tech civil liberties group, is amused by Rebe…
U.S. Copyright Office Section 512 Study: Comments in Response to Notice of Inquiry
Authored by Annemarie Bridy and Daphne Keller Abstract: These comments were prepared and submitted in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's December 31,…
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VENUE Act aims to lessen ease of filing patent lawsuits in Eastern District of Texas
"“The VENUE Act would make it harder for companies to file a suit in districts that don’t have meaningful connection to the suit,” Daniel Nazer, staff atto…
Digital Piracy Debunked: a Short Note on Digital Threats and Intermediary Liability
In the last two decades, the industry has deployed endlessly the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy. Re…
Trademark Use Doctrine in the European Union and Japan
Trademark Use Doctrine in the European Union and Japan Martin Husovec Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT); Tilburg…