Big Win For Fair Use In Google Books Lawsuit
In a long-anticipated ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed Google a clear victory today, soundly rejecting the Authors Guild’s claim that the Google Books Project infringes copyright. In...
View ArticleSony's Game Show Network Didn't Suffer Discrimination, Says...
Cablevision could be on the verge of a big win at the FCC.read more
View ArticleAttempt to Evade Art Export Laws Stymied in French Port
In July, French customs agents seized a 1906 portrait painted by Picasso worth €26 million from a yacht docked in Corsica, foiling an apparent attempt to export the work to Switzerland. The Spanish...
View ArticleUpdate on Trans Pacific Partnership’s Potential Impact on Trade Secret Law
As the 2016 presidential race moves into the debate phase, one issue sure to get more and more attention is the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (“TPP”). In simplest terms, the TPP is a proposed...
View ArticleTWiL 324: Data For Beer?
Hosts: Denise Howell Lawmakers cracking down on revenge porn, Fair use in the "Steve Jobs" movie, the EU's Safe Harbor Ruling and tech startups, and more! Download or subscribe to this show at...
View ArticleJury orders Apple to pay $234 million for infringing university patents
Apple lost a patent case on Monday, when a federal jury in Wisconsin found that the smartphone giant infringed a patent that originated at the University of Wisconsin, and is now held by the Wisconsin...
View ArticleCalifornia Enacts Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA)
“For what logical reason should a handwritten letter stored in a desk drawer enjoy more protection from warrantless government surveillance than an email sent to a colleague or a text message to a...
View ArticleRosie O'Donnell Sued By Ex-'View' Producer for Slander and Firing
Jennifer Shepard-Brookman says the former 'View' host told producers she leaked negative stories to the media.read more
View ArticleOil Lease Royalties
The American government just decided to cancel plans for auctioning new oil leases in the Arctic. See this report at the Guardian. According to the article, global warming is not a reason for that...
View ArticleOil and Gas Climate Initiative
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative has published a Joint Collaboritive Declaration and their 2015 report “More energy – lower emissions: Catalyzing practical action climate change.” This initiative has...
View ArticleBassel Khartabil, Syrian prisoner who lives and risks dying for a free Internet
Article by Stéphanie Vidal under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Please attribute author Stéphanie Vidal and first publication in...
View ArticleGoogle Book Case Appellate Decision
I’ll take a short break from solving global warming and go back to the Author’s Guild case against Google. The appellate decision has been published, and it affirms Google’s “fair use” right to use...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Updates for 2015-10-16
Software Patents Back To The Fore in India http://t.co/sJtaooRu4A -> No Copyright in the title of a literary work says court in India http://t.co/Gft0Vbe6Vi -> Computer and Internet Updates for...
View ArticleA NASA journey to nowhere may be exactly what U.S. needs
It’s unfortunate that NASA has had to operate in such a unfavorable climate, being pushed for more and more answers out of its space exploration program while suffering uncertainty in its federal...
View ArticleA NASA journey to nowhere may be exactly what U.S. needs
It’s unfortunate that NASA has had to operate in such a unfavorable climate, being pushed for more and more answers out of its space exploration program while suffering uncertainty in its federal...
View ArticleSecret source code pronounces you guilty as charged
(credit: christiaan_008) The results from a Pennsylvania company's TrueAllele DNA testing software have been used in roughly 200 criminal cases, from California to Florida, helping put murderers and...
View ArticleAnother Censorious Copyright Case Results In a Big Fee Shift–Inglewood v....
I recently wrote about Katz v. Chevaldina, where a real estate tycoon didn’t like a candid photo taken of him, so he bought the copyrights to the photo and sued a blogger to suppress the photo. The...
View ArticleRight of publicity workshop at Yale
Right of Publicity WorkshopYale Law SchoolInformation Society ProjectAbrams Institute for Freedom of Expression Chatham House rules apparently allow me to disclose my own participation, but not that of...
View ArticleU.S. Internet Giants (Probably) Hit Hard By European Safe Harbor Privacy Ruling
By Brooks Lindsay The European Court of Justice ruled on October 6 to scuttle a 15-year data-transfer pact with the United States. This pact provided a “safe harbor” to over 4,000 transatlantic U.S....
View ArticleRight of publicity workshop part 2
How is the “right” to be reconciled with the First Amendment? Could be part of the vast universe of communication that isn’t protected speech: Fred Schauer’s writing. Contracts aren’t protected by...
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