Intellectual Property Law

Leading pornographer lecturing Google & Yahoo about cleaning up online pornThe Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog

Posted on February 15, 2008
So here we have one of the world?s leading pornographers lecturing Google & Yahoo about doing more to protect kids for online porn. Just bizarre. Next thing you know, Larry Flynt and Hugh Hefner will be lecturing pay TV operators for not doing enough to stop people from viewing adult VOD channels! But before Mr...

Conference in London on Copyright HistoryThe Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on February 14, 2008
Primary Sources on Copyright 1450-1900 is to launch in March. The online resource will revolutionize the way historical research into copyright is done, and is the brainchild of Professors Ronan Deazley, Oren Bracha and others. To celebrate the launch, on March 19-20, there will be an important in its own right two day seminar at Stationer's Hall...

minilinks for 2008-02-13The Electronic Frontier Foundation | Blog Posts

Posted on February 14, 2008
For all its faults, our legal system lets cowboys forego violence to vindicate their honor. \n?They took down the video two days ago. Everyone?s telling me it?s an open-and-closed case,? the Naked Cowboy told the NY Post. The 37 year-old Naked Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burck, was referring to his $6 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against M&M?s manufacturer Mars Inc...

Congressional Committee Asks Web Site for Information on Anonymous Posters:The Volokh Conspiracy

Posted on February 14, 2008
For all its faults, our legal system lets cowboys forego violence to vindicate their honor. \\n?They took down the video two days ago. Everyone?s telling me it?s an open-and-closed case,? the Naked Cowboy told the NY Post. The 37 year-old Naked Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burck, was referring to his $6 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against M&M?s manufacturer Mars Inc...

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CNN Producer Says He Was Fired for BloggingCity Room

Posted on February 14, 2008
For all its faults, our legal system lets cowboys forego violence to vindicate their honor. \\\\n?They took down the video two days ago. Everyone?s telling me it?s an open-and-closed case,? the Naked Cowboy told the NY Post. The 37 year-old Naked Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burck, was referring to his $6 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against M&M?s manufacturer Mars Inc...

Ben Edelman targets C-NetMediaZDNet Blogs

Posted on February 14, 2008
For all its faults, our legal system lets cowboys forego violence to vindicate their honor. \\\\\\\\n?They took down the video two days ago. Everyone?s telling me it?s an open-and-closed case,? the Naked Cowboy told the NY Post. The 37 year-old Naked Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burck, was referring to his $6 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against M&M?s manufacturer Mars Inc...

Surveillance vote in house imminent, EFF's call for actionBoing Boing

Posted on February 14, 2008
The EFF's Tim Jones says, On Tuesday, the US Senate approved a bill that would grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that illegally spied on millions of Americans' private communications. The fight is not over yet; the bill must be ratified by the House before it becomes law...

Five ways for bloggers to minimize risk in use of copyrighted materialsReal Lawyers Have Blogs

Posted on February 14, 2008
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Rep. Markey's net neutrality legislationGoogle Public Policy Blog

Posted on February 13, 2008
Posted by Derek Slater, Policy AnalystToday, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip Pickering introduced bipartisan legislation to help preserve Internet freedom and explicitly make "net neutrality" a guiding principle of U.S. broadband policy. The bill would affirm that the Internet should remain an open platform for innovation, competition, and social discourse, free from unreasonable discriminatory practices by network operators...

Bush Administration Spending More Taxpayer Money On Intellectual Property ProsecutionsTechdirt

Posted on February 12, 2008

Scholarly Journals and Open AccessThe Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on February 12, 2008
An article on page E1 of the New York Times Arts section today discusses a vote today by the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty on whether to implement a new opt-out policy that would provide open, free Internet access to professors' finished articles...

H.R. 4137 Passes House with Section 494 attached.Copywrite

Posted on February 12, 2008
HR 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, passed the house. It seeks to reduce higher education costs, increases Pell Grants, and . . . seeks to elimitate peer-to-peer file sharing on college campuses. Yes, just what higher ed has been clamboring for, more money for students and an unfunded mandate to police their computer networks...

Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of CopyrightThe Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on February 11, 2008
In 1976, country and western singer Bobby Bare a song written by Paul Craft called ?Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goal Posts of Life.? The song appeared on his album ?Winners and Other Losers.? Here are the first two verses:Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of lifeEnd over end neither left nor to rightStraight through the heart of them righteous uprightsDrop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life...

Big news in the free law departmentLessig Blog

Posted on February 11, 2008
As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we've purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal cases...

How not to get sued for bloggersReal Lawyers Have Blogs

Posted on February 10, 2008
Kimberlee G. Weatherall (The University of Queensland - T.C. Beirne School of Law) has posted Of Copyright Bureaucracies and Incoherence: Stepping Back from Australia\'s Recent Copyright Reforms (Melbourne University Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2007) on SSRN...

Blawg Review #146The Invent Blog®

Posted on February 10, 2008
Welcome to Blawg Review #146. This is actually my second time hosting Blawg Review?I was party to the infamous Blawg Review #48 (hosted by the group blawg RethinkIP (with Matt and Doug ). Note to self, not everyone appreciates it when you try to ?Rethink? Blawg Review...

Technology and (Mis)appropriation of DataInfo 205 - Spring 2008: Information Law and Policy (Three Day Delay)

Posted on February 10, 2008
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Posted on February 09, 2008
Columbia Law School, Fair Use Symposium Keynote Speaker: Paul Goldstein Fair Use in Context Fair use is notoriously tricky. Beebe counts 2.4 fair use articles for every court opinion over 1990-2005. There?s a fatal attraction to general theories of fair use...

Weatherall on Australian Copyright ReformLegal Theory Blog

Posted on February 08, 2008
Kimberlee G. Weatherall (The University of Queensland - T.C. Beirne School of Law) has posted Of Copyright Bureaucracies and Incoherence: Stepping Back from Australia's Recent Copyright Reforms (Melbourne University Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2007) on SSRN...

Paul Goldstein on copyright in context43(B)log

Posted on February 08, 2008
Columbia Law School, Fair Use Symposium Keynote Speaker: Paul Goldstein Fair Use in Context Fair use is notoriously tricky. Beebe counts 2.4 fair use articles for every court opinion over 1990-2005. There?s a fatal attraction to general theories of fair use...

Knockoff News 77Counterfeit Chic

Posted on February 08, 2008
Columbia Law School, Fair Use Symposium Keynote Speaker: Paul Goldstein Fair Use in Context Fair use is notoriously tricky. Beebe counts 2.4 fair use articles for every court opinion over 1990-2005. There?s a fatal attraction to general theories of fair use...

Copyright in LettersThe Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on February 08, 2008
Awhile back, I had a posting about misuse in the manner in which a cease and desist letter was being used (link here). This turned out to be a web-wide controversy, which I won?t re-enter; recently though the author of the letter put out a press release touting a recent decision by a magistrate judge on the copyrightability of such letters...

All versions of MPEP now available on USPTO websiteFilewrapper®

Posted on February 08, 2008
As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we\'ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal cases...

Summary of today's summary judgment hearing in the claim and continuation rule casesFilewrapper®

Posted on February 08, 2008
As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we\\\'ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal cases...

The Crime of Selling Abandoned CopiesThe Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on February 07, 2008
The Crime of Selling Abandoned CopiesIf you came across a trash can filled with lawfully made compact discs and DVDs that the copyright owner had authorized to be put in that trash can and then thrown away because it didn?t want to pay the postage to have them returned, do you think you could be criminally prosecuted for selling those copies, and would you think that the copyright owners would be entitled to restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act? If you answered no to these questions, you would be wrong according to the Eighth Circuit...

Second Circuit Against The Rest Of The Country re: Keywords As Use In CommerceThe Trademark Blog

Posted on February 07, 2008
Prof. Goldman: Kentucky Court Votes Keyword Ads = TM Use In Commerce: Either way, this case reinforces the pattern that Second Circuit-controlled courts aren't finding trademark use in commerce from keyword triggering and all other courts are. In that respect, this ruling is reminiscent of the American Airlines v...

Verizon To Hollywood: We're Not The Piracy Police [Privacy]Consumerist

Posted on February 06, 2008

State and Local Tax Assessment MapsThe Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on February 06, 2008
Section 105 of title 17 USC prohibits copyright in works of the United States government, but does not bar works of state and local governments. Under case law, state court decisions and statutes have been held not protectible, but the rationales for these decisions do not apply to other material, like maps...

RIAA opposes EFF motion for leave to file amicus brief, cites "Recording Industry vs. The People"Recording Industry vs The People

Posted on February 06, 2008
In Arista v. Does 1-21, the case in which the RIAA is targeting Boston University students, it has filed a brief opposing the Electronic Frontier's Foundation request for leave to file an amicus curiae brief.The 'opposition' brief inaccurately refers to Ray Beckerman as an EFF attorney, even though Richard Gabriel -- the brief's author -- knows that Ray Beckerman is a private practitioner who is a partner at Vandenberg & Feliu, LLP, in Manhattan...

Presidential Hopefuls Positions on IP:: Tech Law Advisor :: Reloaded ::

Posted on February 05, 2008
Intellectual Property Watch: US Presidential Candidates Reveal Positions On Some IP Issues Technology Voters? Guide: John McCain Technology Voters? Guide: Hillary Clinton Technology Voters? Guide: Barack Obama CNet Election 2008: Campaign coverage for the digerati

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