Shloss v. Estate of Joyce - Motion for Attorneys' Fees
Professor Carol Shloss asked the Court to order the Estate to pay her attorneys' fees based on the unsubstantiated positions the Estate took for years, only…
Copyright and Fair Use
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DRM-free music from Apple & Microsoft
Apple has announced it would offer DRM-free music through iTunes. The offer is limited to the music catalog of one of the Major Labels, EMI. Customers still ca…
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The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy
P.B. Hugenholtz, M.M.M. van Eechoud, S.J. van Gompel et al., from U. of Amsterdam, Institute of Information Law have published their report to the European Comm…
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Free software and Public Administration
From the Italian Association for Free Software (Associazione Software Libero) a press release about a case concerning free software and Public Administration &…
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Lessig joins RIAA board of directors
Here are some of the April Fool's news from the file-sharing universe. The scary thing is, that they are (or should be) all real alternatives, and each and…
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Live Blogging IP Counterfactuals at MSU Law, Installment Two
I’m back . . . and I’ll attempt to live blog the third copyright panel. I got no angry emails, so I’ll assume that I’ve done an innocuous, irrelevant and/or goo…
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Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Iraq For Sale takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and ch…
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My First Experiment in Live Blogging -- MSU Law's IP Counterfactuals Conference, Installment One of ?
I figure that I'll take my first shot at live-blogging, having been inspired by the Bay Area Blawgers event on Wednesday at Santa Clara [thanks to Prof. Eri…
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Who said Russia doesn’t enforce IP rights?
Alexander Ponosov is a teacher in a small Russian village who was prosecuted for violating Microsoft’s intellectual property rights by installing illegal versio…
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Viacom Misses The Joke; CIS And EFF Attorneys File Complaint
While fair use can be murky in some respects, there is no doubt that parody lies at the center of its protections. Viacom had YouTube take down Robert Greenwal…
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An Important Victory For Carol Shloss, Scholarship And Fair Use
Last June we sued the Estate of James Joyce to establish the right of Stanford Professor Carol Shloss to use copyrighted materials in connection with her schola…
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Rules for the Revolution - featured in iTunes!
In January I started my first podcast series, Rules for the Revolution. The focus of the program is to answer general legal questions about the laws affecting…