Intellectual Property Law

Copyright Protection as Applied to Compilations of DataInfo 205 - Spring 2008: Information Law and Policy (Three Day Delay)

Posted on February 03, 2008
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Microsoft Misleads on Copyright ReformMichael Geist Blog

Posted on February 03, 2008
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Ex-PTO Commisioners Weigh in on Patent ReformPeter Zura's 271 Patent Blog

Posted on February 01, 2008
Former Commissioners Gerald Mossinghoff & Stephen Kunin are preparing a position paper on various parts of the Patent Reform Act of 2007. In general, they support many of the provisions of the Act, while expressing their reservations on other provisions...

Sedler on Property & SpeechLegal Theory Blog

Posted on February 01, 2008
Robert A. Sedler (Wayne State University Law School) has posted Property and Speech (Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 21) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This article was part of a Symposium on The Rehnquist Court and the First Amendment, sponsored by the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy...

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Letters to U.S. Senate Opposing the Proposed Patent Reform.Anticipate This!? | Patent and Trademark Law Blog

Posted on February 01, 2008
A number of letters from companies, patent holders, and universities opposing the present Patent Reform Act of 2007 were sent to members of the U.S. Senate this week.  Links to individual letters are found below, provided by the Innovation Alliance. Letter to Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker from 14 Tennessee manufacturers opposing patent reform...

TTAB Posts February 2008 Hearing ScheduleThe TTABlog

Posted on February 01, 2008
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled six hearings for the month of February, as listed below. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of the Madison Building. [The hearing schedule and other details regarding attendance may be found at the TTAB website (lower right-hand corner)]...

Separation of Church and FootballThe Trademark Blog

Posted on February 01, 2008
ChristianPost.com: "Churches Wary of NFL Policy Sack Super Bowl Parties": After the National Football League gave warning last year to an Indianapolis church not to hold a Super Bowl viewing party, churches across the country are canceling their annual Super Bowl fellowships in fear of getting flagged for copyright violations...

PatentScrounger Visual Patent SearchingI/P Updates

Posted on February 01, 2008
The PatentScrounger visual patent searching website is available here at no charge.

Pennsylvania Sues Woman For Selling Goods On eBay Without A LicenseTechdirt

Posted on February 01, 2008

Gimado Music Search: Next to Get Sued by Warner?Mashable!

Posted on February 01, 2008
Gimado is the latest to launch a music search engine, very similar in function to SeeqPod. Crawling the web for mp3s, your search query will return a list of results for songs that can be played and downloaded. I played around on the site for a while, and it looks that most of the content available on Gimado is coming directly from eSnips...

Amazon's anti-DRM teeBoing Boing

Posted on February 01, 2008
This kick-ass "DRM: Don't Restrict Me" was apparently given to Amazon employees to coincide with the launch of the DRM-free Amazon MP3 store. Link (Thanks, Terence!) See also: Amazon buys Audible, promises to kill DRM if we complain

Anorexic? Your Insurance Company Could Subpeona Your Writings On MySpace And Facebook [Privacy]Consumerist

Posted on February 01, 2008
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Lawyer Defends ?Fake Bomb? as Free SpeechABA Journal Daily News

Posted on February 01, 2008
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Public Knowledge Throws the Flag on NFL for Unsportsmanlike ConductPublic Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts

Posted on February 01, 2008
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Copying as transformation43(B)log

Posted on February 01, 2008
Henry Lowood, Found Technology: Players as Innovators in the Making of Machinima, in Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Tara McPherson ed., 2008) (The John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)Given that courts have occasionally suggested that, for fair use purposes, the line between transformative and nontransformative uses is whether an unauthorized use brings out and emphasizes or exaggerates some characteristic that was already in the original text, I was especially interested in Lowood?s description of a machinima movie set in World of Warcraft that told a Romeo-and-Juliet story about the love between a troll and a human...

TiVo Wins on Appeal: Permanent Injunction against EchoStar to be ReinstatedPatent Law Blog (Patently-O)

Posted on January 31, 2008
TiVo v. EchoStar (Fed. Cir. 2008) Around the turn of the century, TiVo?s time shifting DVR television technology took the world by storm and has since become immensely popular.  In 2004, TiVo sued EchoStar and others in the Eastern District of Texas for infringement of its patent claims directed at the DVR hardware and software...

Seeking a speaker for 2/19 event. Is it you?Internet Cases

Posted on January 31, 2008
I?m the vice-chair of the Chicago Bar Association?s Cyberlaw and Data Privacy Committee, and we have a meeting coming up at noon on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Problem is, our speaker prospects are falling through.  If you can be in Chicago on 2/19 and would like to address a group of about 20-30 technology savvy attorneys on a topic of interest to you about law and technology, drop me a line [internetcases -at- gmail dot com]...

"Family Friendly" Movie Censors Were Running Porn Business [Pervs]Consumerist

Posted on January 31, 2008
I?m the vice-chair of the Chicago Bar Association?s Cyberlaw and Data Privacy Committee, and we have a meeting coming up at noon on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Problem is, our speaker prospects are falling through.\n If you can be in Chicago on 2/19 and would like to address a group of about 20-30 technology savvy attorneys on a topic of interest to you about law and technology, drop me a line [internetcases -at- gmail dot com]...

Amazon buys Audible, promises to kill DRM if we complainBoing Boing

Posted on January 31, 2008
Amazon's just bought audiobook provider Audible, the exclusive provider of audiobooks to iTunes, Amazon's rival for audio downloads. Even though Apple says it prefers that its suppliers deliver non-DRM media (and even though Audible's DRM does nothing to prevent piracy), Audible has a mandatory DRM policy for the books it sells...

Top US general says: let my soldiers blog.Boing Boing

Posted on January 31, 2008
Noah Shachtman at Wired's Danger Room blog writes. A leading general is pleading with the armed services to let troops blog and post to YouTube. Too bad the video site is banned on military nets, and Army rules squeeze military bloggers, hard. Link Previously on Boing Boing: Army's new regulations may restrict soldiers' blogs (NPR Xeni Tech) US Army: reporters are "threat," just like Al Qaeda; milblogs = "therapy" Army audits show official sites breach security, not milblogs Under fire, soldiers kill blogs: Pentagon milblog crackdown Pentagon Sued Over Milblog-Monitoring

Subpoenas Allowed in AutoAdmit SuitWSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com

Posted on January 30, 2008
For all you AutoAdmit junkies out there, there?s a development in the lawsuit filed against 39 anonymous Web users who allegedly posted defamatory remarks about female law students on the popular, sometimes-raunchy law-school discussion board. A federal judge in Connecticut is allowing the plaintiffs, two Yale law students, to subpoena the Internet service-providers responsible for the posters? IP addresses in order to identify them...

Enforce Technology-Use Policies to Manage Employees' Privacy ExpectationsLaw.com - Newswire

Posted on January 30, 2008
For all you AutoAdmit junkies out there, there?s a development in the lawsuit filed against 39 anonymous Web users who allegedly posted defamatory remarks about female law students on the popular, sometimes-raunchy law-school discussion board.\nA federal judge in Connecticut is allowing the plaintiffs, two Yale law students, to subpoena the Internet service-providers responsible for the posters? IP addresses in order to identify them...

E.U. Court: Downloaders Can Stay PrivateNYT > Technology

Posted on January 30, 2008
Jay Leno, NBC, and others (Rita Rudner, Jimmy Brogan, Diane Nichols, Sue Pascoe, Kathleen Madigan and Bob Ettinger) against comedy author Judy Brown and her publishers for the unauthorized publishing thousands of their jokes in 19 books over 10 years, entitled ?The Funny Pages, Squeaky Clean Comedy, Funny You Should Know That, Getting Old Is a Joke and Joke Stew...

The First Amendment and Information Gathering:The Volokh Conspiracy

Posted on January 30, 2008
I?m the vice-chair of the Chicago Bar Association?s Cyberlaw and Data Privacy Committee, and we have a meeting coming up at noon on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Problem is, our speaker prospects are falling through.\\n If you can be in Chicago on 2/19 and would like to address a group of about 20-30 technology savvy attorneys on a topic of interest to you about law and technology, drop me a line [internetcases -at- gmail dot com]...

How Could MySpace.co.uk Have Been 'Abusively' Registered Six Years Before MySpace Existed?Techdirt

Posted on January 30, 2008
I?m the vice-chair of the Chicago Bar Association?s Cyberlaw and Data Privacy Committee, and we have a meeting coming up at noon on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Problem is, our speaker prospects are falling through.\\\\n If you can be in Chicago on 2/19 and would like to address a group of about 20-30 technology savvy attorneys on a topic of interest to you about law and technology, drop me a line [internetcases -at- gmail dot com]...

Want To Make Your Documents Available To Others?Patent Baristas

Posted on January 30, 2008
If you?re like most people, you come across a lot of documents in your life. Many go into the trash ? and deservedly so ? but many just can?t seem to find a home. You want to keep them for reference or for sharing but you don?t know where to put them...

Student government flunks First Amendment test; shuts down school newspaperBlogHer - Law

Posted on January 30, 2008
\nIf you?re like most people, you come across a lot of documents in your life. Many go into the trash ? and deservedly so ? but many just can?t seem to find a home. You want to keep them for reference or for sharing but you don?t know where to put them...

There the RIAA goes againThe Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on January 30, 2008
In a 1980 debate with then President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, remarked, "There You Go Again." In a 1989 interview with Reagan by Jim Lehrer, Reagan explained "it just seemed to be the thing to say in what he was saying up there, because it was to me it felt kind of repetitious, something we had heard before...

Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 8Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)

Posted on January 30, 2008
Upcoming Events: Web Seminar on the implications of Nuijten and Comiskey on Business Method Patenting on Feb 14, 2008 hosted by the World Research Group (WRG) [Link] Patently-O readers receive a 20% discount with code NGD759.  (Regularly $299). Web Seminar on Tafas v...

ABA Quietly Considers Anti-Consumer Proposals to Impede Keyword AdvertisingThe Electronic Frontier Foundation | Blog Posts

Posted on January 29, 2008
For all you AutoAdmit junkies out there, there?s a development in the lawsuit filed against 39 anonymous Web users who allegedly posted defamatory remarks about female law students on the popular, sometimes-raunchy law-school discussion board.\\\\nA federal judge in Connecticut is allowing the plaintiffs, two Yale law students, to subpoena the Internet service-providers responsible for the posters? IP addresses in order to identify them...

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