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Access-Right and Copyright Presentation
Next month I’ll be speaking about my work on copyright law at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. The title o…
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Electronic filings coming soon to the Copyright Office
The Copyright Office reports it's final rule about electronic copyright submissions and fees. Starting July 2 (for a limited number of copyright claims) it…
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Soldiers of Fortune
TorrentFreak has a cute story about how politicians are receiving “a fair amount of money” (aka campaign contributions) from the RIAA and the MPAA to promote st…
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A proposed new crime: "attempted" copyright infringement
This has left me speechless. Read also here on the administration's new bill called the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007. Maybe you'll becom…
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Take Down Stay Down
After a successful trial MySpace has announced its novel “Take Down Stay Down” campaign. The idea is that upon reception of notice about unauthorized upload of…
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Digging the grave for next-generation DVD TPMs?
That a string of digits-and-letters receives the honor to be composed into a song is, I think, a noteworthy development. Sure, copyright law is about fostering…
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How close is "very close"?
Earlier this week Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted saying that YouTube is “very close” to turning on a filtering system that should prevent copyright co…
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Who said Russia doesn’t enforce IP rights?
Alexander Ponosov is a teacher in a small Russian village who was prosecuted for violating Microsoft’s intellectual property rights by installing illegal versio…
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Copyright's Loophole
Copyright assignment law seems to contain a massive loophole that has not been addressed by either Congress or the Courts. As a result, it is possible that an…
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Action against the Internet Archive for breach of contract will proceed
The Internet Archive is doing a great service to humanity. It maintains a comprehensive record of all websites and employs a technology called the Wayback machi…
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Copynorms
In the last few weeks I bumped into several articles addressing the question why people feel OK to up- and download mp3s despite all the laws and legal threats,…
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CC Licensing and Copyright Abandonment
In a fresh law review article Prof. Lydia Pallas Loren explores a number of interesting issues concerning Creative Commons licensing. The article proposes to a…