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Dennis Crouch today reports on John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. The crux of this case concerns the disclosing and submitting…
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…
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…
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…
Stanford Center for Internet and Society Speakers Series Talk - February 23, 2012
In her talk, based on her forthcoming book from Yale Press, Contrabrand: Art,…
Stanford Center for Internet and Society Speakers Series Talk - February 23, 2012
In her talk, based on her forthcoming book from Yale Press, Contrabrand: Art,…
Photographer Patrick Cariou sued artist Richard Prince for copyright infringement on the basis of Prince’s use, in works of collage art, of images of Rastafaria…
On April 21, 2011, YouTube invited the public to ask our CIS Fair Use experts questions regarding fair use.
Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use…
Last week, Google Books suffered another legal attack in the form of a class action, this time in Israel. I have been reading through the complaint and the clas…
A court in Israel found that taking CC-licensed pictures from Flickr and publishing them in a book violated the copyright in each and every picture separately.…
Author: Matt Kellogg
Google recently reached a settlement agreement with the authors and publishers who in 2005 sued the company for copyright infringement. A…
Author: Stuart Loh
The plaintiff, Stephanie Lenz, posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her children dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.” Univer…