Writing
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There is a great story today on io9.com illustrating just why automatic copyright filtering can never be a complete solution to online copyright issues. In short, Dumb robots, programmed to kill any…
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Australia, Copyright and the Digital Economy
The Australian Law Reform Commission has just published a thought provoking issues paper on Copyright and the Digital Economy, ALRC Issues Paper 42, August 2012. The ALRC has been charged with considering…
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A billion reasons to take some IP classes at law school
Jury verdict in Apple v. Samsung: $1,049,393,540.00. (08-29-12)
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more coverage of digital humanities amicus
I just read James Grimmelmann’s amusing and insightful post, Google Books: Even Friends of the Court Have Enemies. He concludes that “The opposition, overall, is a litigation tactic for the sake of…
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Authors Guild Unable to Silence Amici
The Judge presiding over Authors Guild v. Google granted leave to file for the Digital Humanities brief and an amicus brief by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research…
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Is Fair Use a Viable Defense for Stolen Photos?
A majority of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals does not seem to think so, thus raising the question of the extent to which copyright allows newsworthy public figures to control their…
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A year of Northwestern Law Review Articles in One Picture
Supra is the word of the year. Without all the Bluebook clutter it looks like this:
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Second Circuit to Hear Google’s Appeal of Class Action Certification
The order is here. It is likely that the rest of the case will be put on hold while this question is addressed, and yet the Hathitrust litigation is rolling on. The…
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A new study by Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi, Katie Bieze and Jan Lauren Boyles, explores the problems that journalists face engaging with copyright and employing the doctrine of fair use. The study…
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No Injunction in Cambridge University Press v. Becker, the Georgia State e-reserves case
Back Story There is an excellent summary of the district court’s decision from May 2012 over at James Grimmelmann’s blog. The abbreviated story is that in April 2008 three publishers (Cambridge University…