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Appeals Court Validates Google's Mammoth Books Project
"The appeals court recognized that the Google search engine "creates new forms of research, such as text mining and data mining," said Ben Depoor…
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The Battle for “Nice”
"Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, whose focus includes intellectual property law, says that the fe…
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Empirical Evidence of “Over-Removal” by Internet Companies under Intermediary Liability Laws
NOTE: I periodically update this post. Last update was May 8, 2020. The "Over-Removal" Issue Most intermediaries offer legal “Notice and Takedown”…
Users' Patronage: The Return of the Gift in the "Crowd Society"
In this work, I discuss the tension between gift and market economy throughout the history of creativity. For millennia, the production of creative artifacts ha…
Prof. Andrea Matwyshyn - Hearsay Culture Show #244 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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PETA Files Lawsuit In SF Court To Give Monkey Ownership Of His Own Selfie Photos
"Legal expert Andrew Bridges told CBS MoneyWatch said Slater isn’t the copyright owner because he didn’t have artistic control. “Copyright requires origina…
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Trade secret trolls could be the new patent trolls
""That's a very powerful threat to make to a fledgling company or a startup," says David Levine, a law professor at Elon University. "I&…
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The EPA Opposes Rules That Could’ve Exposed VW’s Cheating
"Andrea Matwyshyn, law professor at Northeastern and Princeton Universities, says it’s not a done deal that the Copyright Office will oppose the proposed e…
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Mom behind ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ YouTube video wins landmark copyright ruling
"“Something's likely to be fair use when there's no way it’s going to be a market substitute for the original. Nobody is going to watch this video…
Takedown Senders Must Consider Fair Use, Ninth Circuit Rules
A federal appeals court sided with EFF yesterday on several of the major questions at issue in the long-running Lenz v. Universal copyright case. Lenz—sometimes…
Appeals Court Rules Youtube Video Of Baby Dancing To Prince Was Fair Use
Read or listen to the full interview at NPR. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Daniel Nazer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the impact of this rulin…
From Internet Connected Drink Mixer To Any Remote Configuration On The Internet: August's Stupid Patent Of The Month
Imagine if the inventor of the Segway claimed to own "any thing that moves in response to human commands." Or if the inventor of the telegraph applied…