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I am that burning feeling of rage as the computer freezes, then restarts with the last 15 minutes of beautifully crafted prose about the definition the the Transmit clause under the Copyright…
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Four Internet Fables: The internet will destroy big companies. On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog. The internet will eliminate middlemen. The Internet will make the world flat/spells the “death of distance”. For…
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Updated Copyright Trolling and Pornography Data for 2014
Copyright Lawsuits Filed in U.S. Federal Courts 2001 – 2014 This graphs is from my forthcoming article, Copyright Trolling, An Empirical Study. The graph illustrates the effect of two separate waves…
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Patent troll statistics, a correction
In a post on Friday I mentioned that in 2012, businesses and individuals targeted by patent aggregators and patent holding companies accounted for fifty-six percent of all patent defendants. That number should actually be 37.8% of…
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Garcia v. Google amicus briefs with very brief summaries
Due to the level of interest in Garcia v. Google, the Ninth Circuit has a dedicated page providing information and key court documents to the public. I have listed the Amicus briefs…
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ABC v. Aereo Supreme Court Law Professor Amicus Brief
This amicus brief was written by David Post and James Grimmelmann on behalf of 36 law professors in the pending case of ABC v Aereo, now before the Supreme Court (oral argument…
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A graph of John Doe suits as a percentage of all copyright cases filed
A preview of the data. For more details see Copyright Trolling, An Empirical Study (this is still the version posted last week, a new version with additional data will be out soon).
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Aereo, Copyright, Technological neutrality, function v. effect
American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc., is a case scheduled for oral argument before the Supreme Court next month. The case gives us an interesting opportunity to reassess the oft-stated aim…
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The awesome program notes for the 4th Internet Law Scholars Work-in-Progress Symposium.
The fourth annual work-in-progress symposium for internet law scholarship will be held at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School on Saturday March 8, 2014 at .…