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The DMCA Safe Harbors With Brief Annotations of Important Cases
I made an annotated version of Section 512 of the Copyright Act — the DMCA Internet Safe Harbors — for my Copyright Law class and I thought that others might find it…
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Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling is now forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review.
Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling Jake Haskell and I have accepted an offer of publication at the Iowa Law Review. Iowa published my empirical study of copyright trolling in…
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Is software expressive? Yes, but who cares? #IPSC16
My brief response to some comments at IPSC today re software functionality and expression. Writing software obviously involves considerable human ingenuity, however, no one buys software to appreciate the expressive attributes of…
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#DMCA512 Comments and Keywords
I downloaded a selection of the longford comments re DMCA Section 512 and ran some basic word searches to try and organize the material. It would be great to someone do this…
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My 2015 IP Litigation data is now available for replication
Most IP academics agree that their data should be available for replication, but we don’t always follow through in a timely fashion (or at all!). Yesterday I published some analysis of the…
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Copyright Scholarship Roundtable
The First Copyright Scholarship Roundtable will begin tomorrow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The event is sponsored by U. Penn’s Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition and was organized by Shyam Balganesh…
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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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Slides for my presentation on empirical studies of copyright litigation
Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation. This presentation was part of the conference for the forthcoming Research Handbook – Economics of Intellectual Property Rights – Volume II Empirical Studies. Northwestern University (August 5, 2015).…
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Cited in Kimble v. Marvel supreme court brief re patent misuse
Someone told me that I was cited in the respondent’s brief to the Supreme Court in Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc. Indeed, patent-license negotiations may often fail to approximate the conditions presumed by…
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Is IP property? An outline of the debate.
Is IP Property? The debate about whether intellectual property is really property tends to proceed along the following lines. Pro-property advocates observe that as a matter of definition exclusive and tradable rights…