Writing
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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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My article, Internet Safe Harbors and the Transformation of Copyright Law, will be published in the Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 93, 2017, later this year. This Article shows how the substantive balance…
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Prenda is gone, but copyright trolling continues
A pattern of “brazen misconduct and relentless fraud” Like many, I took great satisfaction from reading that John L Steele had plead guilty and acknowledged his role in the “copyright trolling” scheme that…
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My letter to the Illinois AG re eBay’s Buyer Protection Program
The letter is mostly the same as my previous posts One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers and Are eBay sellers the ultimate customer, or the ultimate consumable? #brickscam…
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Are eBay sellers the ultimate customer, or the ultimate consumable? #brickscam
This post is a recap and extension on my post about eBay from a couple of days ago. I have learned a lot since that post, much of it from comments and…
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One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers
If you live in an economy where officials are corrupt, contracts are hard to enforce, and trust is scarce, everyday transactions are burdensome and time-consuming. If you don’t want to get scammed,…
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Copyright Trolling in Chicago (17980 IP addresses and counting)
WBEZ ran a story on Thursday, based in part on my research first published in the Iowa Law Review. The story, Why Are So Many People In Northern Illinois Being Sued For Downloading…
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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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Loyola is hosting the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues Annual Meeting Today
The SERCI Annual Congress 2016 is being held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, 7-8th July and is co-hosted by University of Illinois College of Law. The Society for Economic…
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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…