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WIPO Report on Domain Name Disputes in 2006
When I first started my research on legal aspects of domain names about five years ago (the result is available here) I had the feeling that I was beating a dea…
Copyright and Fair Use
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DMCA Safeharbor Faces $1 Billion Test
It's finally happened. Viacom has sued Google for $1 billion in damages for copyright infringement over videos posted on YouTube. This case will be a grea…
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Internet Webcast Royalty Rates: The Same Old Story
It's old news by blog standards, as it happened last week, but the Copyright Royalty Board has announced the new royalty rates for webcasts. No surprise, t…
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Second Life's response to its parodist... and how things change
I will somehow have to catch up with the rest of the bloggers out there, who seem able to hear about, comment on, and get tired of a particular bit of news near…
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Boucher's latest 'digital rights' bill
(This post was substantially updated on February 28th.) Democratic Representative Rick Boucher (from Virginia's 4th district -- the fightin' 4th!) has…
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Jonatahn Lethem's "The Ectsacy of Influence"
Jonathan Lethem's essay "The Ecstacy of Influence" was published in Harper's Magazine back in late January, which makes it ancient in the comp…
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copyright as gavel
I'm pilfering a phrase from Siva Vaidhyanathan, who wrote an excellent article called "Copyright as Cudgel," noting how producers often use copyri…
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It’s not the technology, stupid
I had an AHAAA moment last night reading Martha Woodmansee’s „ The Author, Art, and the Market”. She writes „As my sketch of writers’ struggles suggests, eighte…
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District Court Finds Plaintiff Satisfies “Case or Controversy” Requirement and Sufficiently Alleges Copyright Misuse in Declarat
Plaintiff Carol Loeb Shloss (“Plaintiff”) is the author of Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, a book describing the creative impact of Lucia Joyce on the litera…
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Court Rules on Copyright Preemption of Trade Dress Infringement and State Law Claims
Plaintiff Blue Nile, Inc. and Defendant Ice.com both own and operate online diamond and fine jewelry retail sales businesses. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant…
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Court Upholds Copyright Infringement and Unauthorized Access Claims Where A Single User License Was Shared By Multiple People
Plaintiff Therapeutic Research Faculty sued defendants – NBTY, Rexall Sundown, and Le Naturiste J.M.B. – for violating the terms of a single user license by all…
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Record Rental Exception to First Sale Doctrine Only Applies to Musical Works
In Brilliance Audio, Inc. v. Haights Cross Communications, Inc., the Court confronted the question of whether the record rental exception to copyright’s first s…