Monitoring and Filtering: European Reform or Global Trend?
Abstract This chapter of the Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability analyses the evolution of a trend towards the imposition of proactive monitoring…
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Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN's Ambivalent Drift into Online Content Regulation
Abstract This article maps ICANN’s ambivalent drift into online content regulation through its contractual facilitation of a “trusted notifier” copyright enfor…
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DMCA Counter-Notice: Does It Work to Correct Erroneous Takedowns?
This blog post is excerpted from our filing in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's 2016 Notice and Request for Public Comment on notice and takedown pra…
U.S. Copyright Office Section 512 Study: Comments in Response to Notice of Inquiry
Authored by Annemarie Bridy and Daphne Keller Abstract: These comments were prepared and submitted in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's December 31,…
Piracy Fuels the Fashion Industry
When, in 2011, Oprah Winfrey asked Ralph Lauren how he “keeps reinventing,” Mr. Lauren answered: “You copy. Forty-five years of copying; that’s why I’m here.” M…
The Key to Fair Use: Transformation
December 12, 2013 - Copyright and Fair Use Issues in the Visual Motion Arts The song you sampled for an intro sequence that you don't have the license for-…
Four Factors of Fair Use
December 12, 2013 - Copyright and Fair Use Issues in the Visual Motion Arts The song you sampled for an intro sequence that you don't have the license for-…
Commons Myths about Fair Use & Copyright
December 12, 2013 - Copyright and Fair Use Issues in the Visual Motion Arts The song you sampled for an intro sequence that you don't have the license for-…
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Konomark and Decoupage – Who’d Have Thunk It?
One of the coolest konomark requests I've received so far came from Judi Pennella, who sought permission to use a photo of mine to decoupage a play kitchen…
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Can a loving homage to Disney be a crime? Copyright law says maybe
"That McFarland teen Heather Traska has loved Disney for years sparkles in every frame of her videos, popular mash-ups of "Tangled," "The Li…
Urban Guerrilla & Piracy Surveillance: Accidental Casualties in Fighting Piracy in P2P Networks in Europe
Copyright law is facing its biggest challenge yet as it copes with technological development and an increasingly global information market. The advent of peer-t…
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Second Circuit Victory for Richard Prince and Appropriation Art
Today the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited decision in favor of fair use in Cariou v. Prince. Reversing the district court’s finding of inf…