Golan v. Holder - Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Order
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that the URAA does not violate our clients' First Amendment rights. * Publication Type:Litigation Brief * Publicat…
Copyright and Fair Use
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Second Circuit Adopts Stricter Standard For Copyright Injunctions
Last summer, a federal district court in New York issued a preliminary injunction banning the publication of 60 Years Later - Coming Through The Rye on the grou…
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Aguiar v. Webb
Plaintiff William V. Aguiar III, sued documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb, alleging that Webb’s promotional website and film trailer for his upcoming film infringe…
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Conference about the Future of News
Next week, the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society (CIS) is hosting a conference titled The Future of Journalism: Unpacking the Rhetoric. The…
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eBay's Win is a Matter of Economic Necessity
As the Wall Street Journal is already reporting, today eBay sustained an important win in its long-running dispute with Tiffany over counterfeit goods sold thro…
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'Harry Potter Lexicon' is focus Of Copyright Law And Fair Use Seminar At GVSU
Jule Ahrens, associate director of the Fair Use Project, is mentioned as a speaker at the Copyright Law and Fair Use for Creative Artists Workshop: For RDR Boo…
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Turing Machines and Bilski
I received a link to a fascinating site (http://www.aturingmachine.com) and video of a working model of a Turing Machine (TM). Turing Machines are named for Bri…
First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse
We are at a crossroads with respect to the under-developed equitable defense of copyright misuse. The defense may go the way of its sibling, antitrust-based pat…
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Google v Everyone
I had a long interview this morning with the Christian Science Monitor . Like many of the interviews I’ve had this year, the subject was Google. At the incr…
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The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…
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The Under and Overhyping of HTC v. Apple
I'm quoted briefly in a story today in E-Commerce Times (see “Apple’s Patent Attack: This Too May be Overhyped” by Erika Morphy) about the patent lawsuit fi…
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New Game in Town: Qui Tam False Marking Cases in Texas
A way of wringing the value out of expired patents is in play. Seven patent infringement cases have been filed during the past two weeks in the Northern Distri…