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The Israeli Google Books Class Action

Last week, Google Books suffered another legal attack in the form of a class action, this time in Israel. I have been reading through the complaint and the clas…

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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is a new, comprehensive study on the impact and role of piracy on/in some of the biggest developing countries: Brazil, Russia…

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Anti-transparency

Quoted verbatim from a recent DMCA takedown letter: IMPORTANT NOTICE:  None of the information contained in this legal notice is to be transmitted and/or relea…

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Seeking Happily Ever After

This award-winning feature-length documentary details why there are more single 30-something women in the U.S. than ever before, and whether women of all ages a…

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Who Said France Does Not Have Fair Use?

Valérie Laure Benabou, a law professor at the University of Versailles and an esteemed expert on French and international copyright law, kindly agreed to share…