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Lessig on the orphan works bill
Prof. Lessig has an OP-ED in the NYT today about the orphan works bill rolling now in Congress. Among the important points mentioned there, here are my three fa…
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"Who needs copyright, anyway?"
John Degen, a Canadian novelist, has a thoughtful post on how he has resolved to make his latest novel, The Uninvited Guest, freely available for download onlin…
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Old-Style Canadian Formalities and Copyright Reform
Next month Stanford CIS is hosting a conference about Legal Futures. Judging by the list of participants, the upcoming even should be nothing less than electrif…
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Mulligan and Perzanowski on the Sony BMG Rootkit Fiasco
I have never seen an SSRN paper receiving 1700 recorded downloads in mere three days or so. This is exactly what happened to “The Magnificence of the Disaster:…
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German Copyright Law Amended
Today was the official publication of a new amendment to the German Copyright Act. The amendment will enter into force in January 1st, 2008. After four long y…
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Elkin-Koren on Anticircumvention Law and Consumers-as-Participants
Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren has uploaded a paper titled Making Room for Consumer Under the DMCA, to be published soon in the BTLJ. The paper provides a terrific anal…
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Submission of a Reconstruction as Deposit Copy Invalidates Copyright Registration and Nullifies Federal Subject Matter Jurisdict
Author: Juliana Tutt In Torres-Negrón v. J & N Records, L.L.C., the court determined two issues: whether the plaintiff’s submission of a tape recording of…
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Copyright Law and the Information Cost Theory
Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information, authored by Prof. Henry Smith was published last summer in the Yale Law Journal. It…
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Jury Instruction No. 15
The attorney of Jammie Thomas has resolved to appeal the jury verdict entered against her last week. That closely-followed trial culminated in awarding $222k in…
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Copyright and education
William Patry has an interesting post today about imbalanced educational campaigns directed to children concerning copyright violations. I suppose that one of t…
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Section 102(b) and negative categories of copyright subject matter
Section 102 of the Copyright Act has been receiving quite some attention in legal commentary recently. Professor Pamela Samuelson authored an article challengin…
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DRM by mandate? Belgium court imposes a filtering duty on ISP
In a press release from today the IFPI hails a Belgium court decision, which reportedly imposes a duty on an Internet Service Provider to use filtering technolo…