The Supreme Court certified two questions in Golan v. Holder: (1) Does section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (“URAA”) violate the Progress Clause of t…
This Public Report is the outcome of the work of the COMMUNIA Network on the Digital Public Domain. This Report was undertaken to (i) review the activities of C…
Valérie Laure Benabou, a law professor at the University of Versailles and an esteemed expert on French and international copyright law, kindly agreed to share…
The term open access is often used roughly to describe free circulation of academic and scholarly contributions over electronic media. The basic idea is to enha…
If you have ever actually read through a software end user license agreement, you know that they are often full of restrictions on how you can use the software.…
My book on digital copyright law is now finally available. Here is the abstract (from Oxford's website): The pervasive shift toward the use of digital tech…
We are at a crossroads with respect to the under-developed equitable defense of copyright misuse. The defense may go the way of its sibling, antitrust-based pat…
I’ve just posted my paper on information as IP subject matter. The paper addresses some basic questions about the idea of property-like rights in “information”…
It’s nothing new for media organizations to employ lofty rhetoric about the role of the press in democracy to advocate special legal privileges. Likewise, it’s…
The long-awaited Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) was filed yesterday. The relevant documents (including the new version of the settlement and a summery of th…
It was brought to my attention that the German high court decision on copyright and music sampling I had previously blogged on here received a fresh English tra…
Copyright treatise’ author and, for the past few years, Google’s copyright counsel William Patry has recently published a new book with Oxford University Press…