Category: copyright
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My testimony to the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on IP re: Copyright and AI
I had the great honor of testifying to the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property in relation to Artificial Intelligence Copyright on Wednesday, July 12th, 2023. Video and my written submission…
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Lessons for Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation … A Case Study of Copyright Injunctions
This morning I presented Lessons for Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation … A Case Study of Copyright Injunctions, CREATe@10 – Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures, University of Glasgow October 17, 2022. For…
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So, you got a copyright infringement demand letter from Higbee & Associates?
Some context In 2018 Jake Haskell and I published an article called “Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling” in the Iowa Law Review. The article focused on BitTorrent related litigation…
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The missing theory of transformative use
Today I will be presenting on “The Missing Theory of Transformative Use” at the Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. My presentation is basically a distillation of the first…
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NAFTA must include fair use commitments
I joined with over seventy international copyright law experts today in calling for NAFTA and other trade negotiators to support a set of balanced copyright principles. Policies like fair use, online safe…
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Text Mining, Non-Expressive Use and the Technological Advantage of Fair Use
On March 29, 2017, I attended a fantastic conference on “Globalizing Fair Use: Exploring the Diffusion of General, Open and Flexible Exceptions in Copyright Law” hosted by American University Washington College of…
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My article, Internet Safe Harbors and the Transformation of Copyright Law, will be published in the Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 93, 2017, later this year. This Article shows how the substantive balance…
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Prenda is gone, but copyright trolling continues
A pattern of “brazen misconduct and relentless fraud” Like many, I took great satisfaction from reading that John L Steele had plead guilty and acknowledged his role in the “copyright trolling” scheme that…
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Copyright Trolling in Chicago (17980 IP addresses and counting)
WBEZ ran a story on Thursday, based in part on my research first published in the Iowa Law Review. The story, Why Are So Many People In Northern Illinois Being Sued For Downloading…
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Loyola is hosting the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues Annual Meeting Today
The SERCI Annual Congress 2016 is being held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, 7-8th July and is co-hosted by University of Illinois College of Law. The Society for Economic…