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An Encouraging Fair Use Decision From The Second Circuit
Here is a very encouraging case from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Blanch v. Koons. Visual artist Jeff Koons is no stranger to the courts. Specializing…
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Update on primary and secondary authority searches for "fair use" defense of unlicensed video clips
Yesterday I finished my draft of my preliminary search results for primary and secondary authority covering the application of the fair use defense to 'borr…
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"Jesus Christ: The Musical" Gets New Life
Last August, film-maker Javier Prato received a cease and desist letter from Universal Music, who complained that his short film, “Jesus Christ: The Musical,” w…
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www.warsystems.hu
Please see my research blog at www.warsystems.hu, where i post news clipping from the world of intellectual property and file-sharing daily.…
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I can't believe I missed this...
Watch the new "Wanna Work Together" video (3 min), and click on the ad! In catching up on some email and other odds and end this holiday weekend, I…
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We All Now Wish We Were Film or Media Studies Professors
So, thanks to the Librarian of Congress, film professors and media studies professors can now make a compilation of film clips for class without breaking the la…
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Sony and DRM
The German American Lawyers Association held last Wednesday in Berlin a panel discussion titled The Current of Ideas in Cyber Society. Patrick Strauch, the Germ…
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Keywording and Trademarks Paper
I've just posted a new SSRN working paper on keywording advertising in search engines. Comments are welcome.…
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New site, just in time to play around.
We have a new site here at CIS and it's tripped out with a number of cool features. I'm going to play with the tagging and will do my best to figure out…
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Workshop on Commons Theory for Young Scholars
In May 2007, the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, in collaboration with Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, will hold a "…
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Victory in Anti-Circumvention Proceedings
Today, the Copyright Office issued new rules allowing people to circumvent technological protection measures on their cell phones in order to be able to switch…
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Lessig to Argue Kahle Case
Lessig will argue at the Appeal in Kahle v. Ashcroft at 9AM November 13, 2006. A post by the Plaintiff Brewster Kahle.…