Copyright Law

Hasbro goes after Scrabulous

Posted on January 11, 2008
The only surprise is that it took so long. FORTUNE: Techland Will someone please start a Facebook group to save Scrabulous?

ISP Filtering

Posted on January 09, 2008
One of the big issues in tech and IP policy this year will be the role of ISPs. To what extent should they be common carries of information, enforcers of digital copyright, or delivery networks giving special priority to preferred media providers? The NY Times published an AP report that the FCC will investigate complaints that Comcast blocks BitTorrent traffic on its networks, F...

Quoting Copyright Material in User-Generated Video

Posted on January 09, 2008
The Center for Social Media at American University has released a study on the quoting of copyrighted material in user-generated video and fair use, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: "The study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, by Center director Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, co-director of the law school's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today's online videos are eligible for fair use consideration...

Sound Recording Performing Rights Bill

Posted on December 20, 2007
The Performance Rights Act of 2007 was introduced in both the House and Senate before going on recess. This bill would put commercial broadcasters on parity with webcasters and satellite radio in needing to pay royalties for the use of sound recordings...

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The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality

Posted on December 20, 2007
David Pogue speaks at a college and finds out that kids today don't believe that creative works fixed in a tangible electronic medium have any value: The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality: "The exercise is intended, of course, to illustrate how many shades of wrongness there are, and how many different opinions...

Circuit Court Caselaw

Posted on November 15, 2007
Public.Resource.org, Announcement: "Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754...

Statutes Shape Streaming Services

Posted on November 14, 2007
In the Listening Post blog at Wired, Eliot Van Buskirk tries out Boomshuffle, a new service from Snocap, New Direction For SnoCap: Free, 15-Song Embeddable Mixes: "The service only plays 30-second clips of the songs unless you include 15 tracks by 15 different artists, because that helps Boomshuffle qualify for a lower internet radio royalty rate -- fine by me, I'd rather include more music anyway...

Verizon diverts traffic to its own search engine

Posted on November 14, 2007
Type "nytimes" into your browser's location bar. Unless you have a local server on your network called nytimes, some web browsers (including Safari) will automatically add "http://www." and ".com" to bring you to The New York Times at "http://www.nytimes...

Test

Posted on November 12, 2007
I hope that this is indeed fixed soon.

MTTLR

Posted on November 12, 2007
The Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review launched a new blog, The MTTLR Blog. It's a nice site, so far, although there is a contrast between the majority of posts written with formal, law review-style footnotes and others with web-style hyperlink citations...

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