Category: copyright
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Getty’s high-resolution competition law complaint against Google in the EU
Getty Images has filed a competition law complaint against Google See Getty’s press release Getty Images files antitrust charges against Google over image scraping – Ars Technica 20160427 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/google-eu-antitrust-getty-images-complaint/ EU hits Google with second…
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CREATIVE DIGITAL ARTS — Event Announcement
CREATIVE DIGITAL ARTS FREE PUBLIC EVENT “CREATIVE DIGITAL ARTS: Copyrights and Pathways to Success” is a free public event that has organized by faculty at Loyola Law School Chicago, Northwestern Law School…
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Some thoughts on Malibu Media’s recent loss and its implications
(Malibu Media LLC v. Doe, Docket No. 1:13-cv-06312 (N.D. Ill. Sept 04, 2013) Malibu Media’s case against yet another John Doe defendant was tossed out of court on February 8th by United States…
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Shrinking Linking? GS Media BV v Sanoma Media Netherlands
GS Media BV v Sanoma Media Netherlands BV and Others (Case C-160/15) CJEU In 2014 the European Court of Justice took the opportunity not to break the Internet, but it left open the possibility that…
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(4/4) 2015 Data on the geographic distribution of US IP litigation
2015 Update This is the fourth and final post in a series discussing the 2015 Update to the data in my forthcoming article, IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994 to 2014 (Iowa Law Review, forthcoming…
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(2/4) 2015 Data on Copyright Litigation in the US
2015 Update This is the second in a series of posts discussing the 2015 Update to the data in my forthcoming article, IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994 to 2014 (Iowa Law Review, forthcoming 2016). You…
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(1/4) 2015 Data on IP Litigation in US District Courts
Introduction to the 2015 Update This is the first in a series of posts discussing the 2015 Update to the data in my forthcoming article, IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994…
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Second Circuit clears the last hurdle for Google Book Search
The Second Circuit ruled today that, in its present form, the library digitization that Google began over ten years ago does not infringe US copyright law. This decision was entirely predictable given the…
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Some cool graphs from my paper on IP litigation in US district courts
I have just revised my article, IP Litigation in US District Courts: 1994 to 2014, which will be published in Volume 101 of the Iowa Law Review next year. (You can download the article from ssrn now.) This…
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How is it that Nazi’s got to keep their copyrights?
The estate of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister of propaganda, is taking legal action against the publisher Random House over a new biography! Wow! See http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/18/random-house-told-it-should-pay-to-quote-joseph-goebbels-in-biography for more.