Writing
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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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Second Circuit clears the last hurdle for Google Book Search
The Second Circuit ruled today that, in its present form, the library digitization that Google began over ten years ago does not infringe US copyright law. This decision was entirely predictable given the…
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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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How is it that Nazi’s got to keep their copyrights?
The estate of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister of propaganda, is taking legal action against the publisher Random House over a new biography! Wow! See http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/18/random-house-told-it-should-pay-to-quote-joseph-goebbels-in-biography for more.
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Some thoughts on Fair use, Transformative Use and Non-Expressive Use
Fair use, Transformative Use and Non-Expressive Use Or, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the Future of Digital Technologies, notes on a short presentation at the Fair Use In The Digital Age: The Ongoing Influence…
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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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New empirical study of IP litigation in US District Courts
IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994 to 2014 I have just posted a new empirical study of IP litigation in US District Courts to SSRN. At the moment it has…
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“Vaccines lead to shark attacks.” I said it, it must be true.
“Vaccines lead to shark attacks.” I said it, it must be true. Scientists and the government say it is not true, therefore it must be true. The anti-vaccine crowd are killing and…
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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…