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When You Copy And Paste A Tweet, Is It Illegal?
"Annemarie Bridy, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said nothing in the law dictates a tweet is automatically…
Copyright and Fair Use
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How Can You Patent a Dating Website?
"So does the Spark Networks matchmaking patent hold up in a post-Alice world? It depends on how you look at it. From a theoretical legal perspective, “This…
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Facebook’s legal team goes after defunct Yale class project
"Nazer is hoping the case can make big companies at least consider fair use before they send out automated, or near-automated, letters demanding that websi…
Copyright's Digital Deputies: DMCA-Plus Enforcement by Internet Intermediaries
Abstract: In the years since passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), the copyright industries have demanded that online intermediaries — both…
Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
BY STEPHEN LAPORTE AND AERYN PALMER The ability to freely share information of all kinds, from text to images, is core to Wikimedia’s mission of making all kno…
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The big bad wolf to the . . . rescue?
If you work in technology, the big bad wolf can be your best friend. Read below to find out why. A few days ago, the U.S. Supreme court denied Google's app…
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Supreme Court Sends Google-Oracle Feud Back to SF Judge
"The original 2012 trial was a who's who of Silicon Valley, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Larry Page and Android co-fo…
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Fenwick Partner Takes Fight to Copyright Bullies
"Ask Andrew Bridges about government efforts to crack down on websites that post copyrighted material or to enlist Internet companies as copyright enforcer…
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How to stop rivals from raiding your talent (using fair means or foul)
"David Levine, a law professor at Elon University, suggests that company executives work with IT staff to spot irregular computer use, which can flag thing…
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Is your design inspired or stolen?
"Am I a crook?" A design client recently asked me this question about one its designs, and whether is was legally inspired by or stolen from other wor…
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453 days later...
Welcome news today from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. By a vote of 11 to 1, the court overturned its injunction against the controversial video…
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The Register's Perspective on Copyright Review
Statement of MARIA A. PALLANTE UNITED STATES REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS AND DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY United…