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Auctioned Patents Emerge in Litigation in 2010
In reviewing the statistical tea leaves of IP litigation trends for 2010, one aspect that now stands out is the number of cases involving auctioned patents. Th…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Access-Right over Open Access
The term open access is often used roughly to describe free circulation of academic and scholarly contributions over electronic media. The basic idea is to enha…
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Hearsay Culture Winter Quarter 2011 Schedule posted
Here's the schedule! For the first time since it's founding in May 2006, the show is now airing live at a new time -- Tuesdays, 11am-12pm PT. I'm…
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Israeli Court Enforces for the First Time a Creative Commons License
A court in Israel found that taking CC-licensed pictures from Flickr and publishing them in a book violated the copyright in each and every picture separately.…
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Uncertain Implications of Ninth Circuit Ruling on Copyright Licensing
If you have ever actually read through a software end user license agreement, you know that they are often full of restrictions on how you can use the software.…
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Sony v. Tenenbaum: Amicus Brief Urges Due Process Review of Copyright Damages Awards
On Monday we filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the Sony v. Tenenbaum case, pending in in the First Circuit Court of Appea…
Sony v. Tenenbaum - Amicus Brief
We filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation asking the First Circuit to affirm the district court’s reduced damages award in Sony v…
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Sony v. Tenenbaum
Joel Tenenbaum was a college student sued by a group of major record labels in its litigation campaign against file-sharers. Tenenbaum was found liable for inf…
Google Books Rejected: Taking the Orphans to the Digital Public Library of Alexandria
The idea of the Library of Alexandria has powerfully expanded over the centuries, embodying the dream of universal wisdom and knowledge centralized in one singl…
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(Updated) San Francisco's de Young Museum Bans Sketching In Special Exhibition, Thumbs Nose At Centuries Of Artistic Tradition
Details of the silliness are here. Best part of the story is the photograph of an artist setting up an easel and full array of paints in the Louvre. The Frenc…
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Copyright in a Networked World
Last week the law school hosted the important conference "Intellectual Property in the International Arena: WIPO Comes to Stanford." Along with Richar…
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Access-Right Book Released
My book on digital copyright law is now finally available. Here is the abstract (from Oxford's website): The pervasive shift toward the use of digital tech…