CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori's latest article for The Atlantic. The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that will affect whether you can sell your i…
Anthony Falzone suggests that the defendants’ decision not to assert fair use may have been strategic: “Combs and his label can afford to pay for samples. Many…
Many, many people think that attribution is a key part of copyright law, but in the US it's really not a part of the law at all (with a few tiny, nearly mea…
Marketplace Tech interviews CIS Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone about Google file sharing. If you’re an online company, it’s certain…
Daily/Journal Op/Ed The first part of this article outlined the mechanics of the Megaupload website, and the novel questions of criminal inducement on which th…
Daily/Journal Op/Ed Days after anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice coordinated an unprecedented raid on the Hong Kong-b…
Days after anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice coordinated an unprecedented raid on the Hong Kong-based website Megauplo…
* Date Published:03/09/2012 * Original Publication:PC Advisor…
How accurate is the Patent and Trademark Office? Can its examiners tell good patents from bad? Many doubt that they can and the PTO is often criticized for allo…
Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed us…
This is the third in a series of articles focusing on the experimental economics of intellectual property. In earlier work, we have experimentally studied the w…
The real story behind last week’s blow-up over legislation regulating piracy on the Internet has less to do with the fears of motion picture studios or the intr…