Writing
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Surreal Testimony on Copyright Issues in Education and for the Visually Impaired
I tried to view the statement of Roy S. Kaufman, Copyright Clearance Center, in relation to the “Copyright Issues in Education and for the Visually Impaired” Hearing Before the House Committee on the…
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#Aereo was always doomed to fail
and today it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I have added some final thoughts on fair use to my review of the Aereo decision. You can download the Article from ssrn at…
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Comments on Joseph Fishman, “Creating Around Copyright” Harvard Law Review, Vol. 128, Forthcoming.
Joseph Fishman presented his forthcoming paper, Creating Around Copyright at the UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop this weekend. The paper argues that rather than seeing copyright as a system…
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Professor Matthew Sag, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. November 18, 2014 This post is based on a summary I wrote for the ABA IP Litigation Roundtable Summary The Supreme Court’s recent majority…
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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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Tyler Ochoa on Flo & Eddie v. Sirius XM Radio
Professor Tyler Ochoa has written a great post explaining the implications of Flo & Eddie v. Sirius XM Radio. Follow this link to Eric Goldman’s blog: A Seismic Ruling On Pre-1972 Sound…
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Authors Guild v. Google will be argued in the Second Circuit on December 3rd
This means we could get a decision before the case’s 10 year anniversary! Docket Number: 13-04829 in United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Title: The Authors Guild v. Google,…
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Chicago Kent Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property
I am presenting some new research at the Chicago Kent Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property tomorrow morning. I will present some initial data from my work in progress, IP Litigation…
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Kienitz v. Sconnie Nation — transformative uses and derivative works. #Fairuse
Some additional thoughts on the 7th Circuit’s decision in Kienitz v. Sconnie Nation LLC, No. 13-3004 (7th Cir. Sept. 15, 2014). Judge Easterbrook expressed some skepticism today over the Second Circuit’s decision in Cariou v.…