Writing
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Even when Judge Easterbrook is right, he is wrong. #fairuse #copyright #blaaah
I have been wanting to blog about the 7th Circuit’s appalling decision in Kienitz v. Sconnie Nation LLC, No. 13-3004 (7th Cir. Sept. 15, 2014) since I read it — exactly seven twenty minutes ago.…
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Less Cancer, More Birthdays. A call for donations.
There are many amazing charities worthy of your support — the American Cancer Society is one of them. I am raising money for the ACS again this year because I believe in…
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Copyright and Pornography — Is now the time to panic?
There were 2004 copyright lawsuits filed in federal district courts in the United States in the period from January 1st to June 30th 2014. Just under 48% of these suits were filed…
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Why digital humanities researchers support google’s fair use defense
I posted a guest-blog over at the Authors Alliance explaining why digital humanities researchers support google’s fair use defense in Authors Guild v. Google. The Authors Alliance supports Google’s fair use defense because…
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Digital Humanities and Legal Scholars in Authors Guild v. Google filed
On Thursday this week, we filed a brief on behalf over 150 researchers, scholars and educators in Authors Guild v. Google, currently on appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The Brief of Digital…
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Copyright Trolling Data, Updated to June 30 2014
Copyright Trolls, Pornography, Statutory Damages… [Revised at 5:43pm to account for an idiotic mistake in Excel – Just going to show that you should not use excel for even the most simple…
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Call for signatories: Digital Humanities Amicus in Authors Guild v. Google
Matthew Jockers, Jason Schultz and I have written an amicus brief in the upcoming Court of Appeals round of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. Download the draft here: DH Amicus AG v Google CA2 Background…
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Matthew Jockers explains why you can’t read a book through snippets
The Authors Guild’s war on search engines, text-mining and academic research is in its final throws. Over the last two years two different US Federal District Courts have held that library digitization…
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Authors Guild v. HathiTrust — Libraries 3 : Authors Guild 0
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the most important parts of the District Court decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust. Here is a link to the decision –AGvHathiTrust_CA2_2013. Along with…
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New Copyright/Pornography Data for today’s #LSAMN14 IP Panel
I will be presenting my research on Copyright Trolling (download the full paper from ssrn) at the Law And Society Annual Meeting today. This morning I updated my data to May 29,…