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COPYRIGHT

Cambridge Nil Georgia State Nil? A Copyright Derby Analysis

March 30, 2012

Warning. This post may only make sense to English football fans. (Yes, I know this is Cambridge United logo and not Cambridge Press.) The publishing and academic worlds are watching the clock tick down to the perhaps historic decision of federal judge Orinda Evans in Cambridge University Press et al v. Patton which alleges that [...]

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Fair Use Fry-McKellen (HOBBITS) 2 Hollywood-Saul Zalentz Nil (0)

March 22, 2012

CROWDSOURCE YOUR COPYRIGHT DISPUTES, AND TRY TO GET A BIG NAME OR TWO! Sorry Saul Zalentz, do not mess with an English pub named The Hobbit. Via BBC: “Stephen Fry has confirmed he and Sir Ian McKellen will pay a copyright licence fee so a Southampton pub can carry on trading as The Hobbit. The [...]

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Pornography Download Copyright Defendant Allowed to Proceed Anonymously

March 10, 2012

Does the public really need to know who has downloaded “Horny Black Mothers and Daughters #8″? New York Federal Judge Katherine Forest thinks not, at least for now. The John or Jane Doe copyright infringement defendant was tracked down via ISP subpoena and proceeded pro se (might it be an attorney?) and won a motion [...]

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Pinterest, TechoLlama, Hot Link,Thumb Nails, Copyright, Complaining Photographers (Humming “We Didn’t Start the Fire”)

February 29, 2012

Pintesrest (online Pin Board, hailed as Facebook for Women), TechoLlama (brilliant IP professor with silly handle, so prefer his real name Andrés Guadamuz), complaining photographers, did I make a sentence yet? Certainly not a cause of action, I will take whatever odds on that offered by Bet365. We didn’t start the fire It was always [...]

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Federal Plaintiff Via EFF Claims Pornography not Protected by Copyright

February 8, 2012

At the intersection of 1709Blog and TorrentFreak, a copyright Trollee asks a San Francisco court to deny copyright protection to adult content. Not as good as Super Bowl 46 (no Roman numerals for me), but when EFF send their A team (IP Litigator Steven Yuen) to fight trolls, anything can happen. So, if we deny [...]

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NBC Gets it Wrong on Brokaw Copyright Claim against Romney

January 30, 2012

Our big firm brothers at Foley Hoag describe the facts well in their recent post “IP Dispatches from the Political Front: Mitt Slings Copyrighted Mud at Newt.” The Romney video advertisement utilizes a clip of Tom Brokaw on NBC which “is little more than a short clip of a 1997 episode of NBC’s Nightly News, [...]

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Richard O’Dwyer Criminal Copyright Extradition of U.K. Citizen Video Report

January 25, 2012

Copyright mania hits new heights. Watch the RT video and check out the BBC article quoted from here: “Richard O’Dwyer, 23, set up the TVShack website which US authorities say hosts links to pirated copyrighted films and television programmes. The Sheffield Hallam University student lost his case in a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. If [...]

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Key Moments in Social Media and Copyright Law – A Graphic

January 20, 2012
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Can Grooveshark Destroy the Copyright Fair Use Rights of its Own User Clients

January 18, 2012

As reported today in NYTimes MediaDecoder blog, several major record labels have sued Grooveshark for admittedly unlicensed music uploaded by Grooveshark users. Grooveshark actually has license deals with many major records labels, including even a related entity to one of the plaintiffs. The copyright rub is that there is alleged evidence that Grooveshark itself directed [...]

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Fair Use as a Collective Right in Copyright

January 18, 2012

The fair use of Fair use grows exponentially in the arsenal (small “a”) of copyright freedom litigators. In advising clients pre-litigation and in IP brainstorming sessions, clients often seek the moral as well as the legal justification to support the use and publication of materials that may raise copyright challenges. In Lawrence Solum’s Legal Theory [...]

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