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18 May 2013, 5:06 pm
When frequent contributor and collaborator Jerry Newhall recently asked for some space on this page for a plug, I was more than happy to oblige. A plug!?! some might say. But not to worry dear readers, he isn't shilling anything dodgy like internet gambling...As a periodic contributor to BlawgConomics, I've shared my ruminations on subjects from zombies to handbags. And as regular readers know, I'm currently hard at work alongside the Esteemed Editor on a paper examining the nature of… [read post]
18 May 2013, 11:03 am
It is Friday Saturday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
It was a busy week for copyright news as members of the U.S. Congress has proposed legislation to drastically reform the DMCA, Aereo is trying for a big win against the TV studios suing it and Google is seeking to stop authors from suing them as a group.
However, there’s much more than that. We also have an important fair use ruling in the Righthaven saga and, most bizarrely, an argument… [read post]
18 May 2013, 9:14 am
As briefly discussed above, Peteski brought this action against Deadspin because Deadspin copied the Dr. Phil show that had an exclusive interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo is the brains (and voice) behind the hoax that was played on Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. What was the hoax? A fake online girlfriend for the football player. On the first part of Dr. Phil's two-part show, Tuiasosopo talked about how the hoax worked, and toward the end of the show, Dr. Phil asked Tuiasosopo… [read post]
18 May 2013, 5:30 am
The Industrial Internet economy: Canada 2025 http://t.co/vfY4CA0O8r ->
UK court jails four LulzSec hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets including the CIA http://t.co/7NbclcDgT5 ->
Twitter comment about British politician leads to defamation case http://t.co/qmCUAkUFOB ->
Supreme Court Looks More Closely at Reviewing Therasense http://t.co/gueEtnH83q ->
Google Glass spurs privacy questions from Congress http://t.co/z7scDzNqga ->
Yahoo Wins Appeal of $2.7 Billion Suit in… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:59 pm
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1: Advocates Call for Legal Protections for Copyright Consumers
First off today, Grant Gross at Tech Hive reports that yesterday marked the first hearing before the intellectual property subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on a possible major overhaul of copyright in the United States.
The hearing involved members from a group called the Copyright Principles Project, which released a 2010 report about trying… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:25 pm
A mosaic of Lady Justice at the 9th Circuit in San Francisco.
Thomas Hawk
Four lawyers linked to the embattled copyright-trolling Prenda Law operation were slapped with a sanctions order earlier this month, ordering them to pay more than $80,000 in penalties and referring them to state bar investigators as well as the US Attorney's office.
The only one who has spoken publicly, John Steele, said he will appeal. Now, papers have been filed by Steele's… [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:29 pm
Football Ass'n Premier League Ltd. v. YouTube, Inc., ---
F.Supp.2d ----, 2013 WL 2096411 (S.D.N.Y.)
Interesting not just because of the intersection of class
actions and copyright, but because neither side apparently had the incentive to
clarify matters with respect to statutory damages, thus enabling some sloppy language, though nothing that ought to make a difference to this
case.
The court began by suggesting that this case was a
“Frankenstein monster posing as a class action”… [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:41 am
Arctic Pear by Ochre
Most of my writing here about copyright law concerns the misuse and abuse of its heavily pro-plaintiff provisions such that there is little or no incentive against the filing of meritless claims of infringement. In particular I have focused on scams such as Righthaven, the now-defunct copyright trolling operation, and the use or threatened use of attorneys’ fees and statutory damages as part of such claims. Often these components are wildly out of proportion to… [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:25 am
By Elizabeth
Following up on House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s April announcement to undertake a comprehensive review of copyright law, the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee held its first hearing yesterday. Titled “A Case Study for Consensus Building: The Copyright Principles Project,” the hearing featured five witnesses who had participated in the three-year Copyright Principles Project (CPP):
Jon Baumgarten, retired Proskauer Rose… [read post]
17 May 2013, 8:31 am
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)In a 31-page motion for summary judgment, digital tv streaming service Aereo has asked United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Alison Nathan to dismiss copyright infringement claims brought by commercial public broadcasters. In American Broadcasting Cos. et al v. Aereo (Case No. 1:12-cv-01540), Aereo, which is financially backed by media mogul Barry Diller (see "TUOL" post 8/14/12), argues the March 2012, copyright infringement… [read post]
17 May 2013, 5:55 am
Law Blog rounds up the morning's news. [read post]
17 May 2013, 5:45 am
The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property Law — Randolph May and Seth Cooper of the Free State Foundation look at some of the philosophical underpinnings that drove the inclusion of copyright and patent protection into the United States Constitution. According to May and Cooper, the origin of the right is explicitly Lockean, while the protection of the right is explicitly Madisonian. An engaging and enlightening read.
Where to Watch — A new site that lists authorized online… [read post]
17 May 2013, 5:30 am
Twitter users in Bahrain jailed for allegedly insulting tweets http://t.co/pEk4oxu8dB ->
Larry Page disses Microsoft for 'milking' Google for its own benefit http://t.co/Sh0ijT8hKb ->
Google beats Apple to it with streaming music service http://t.co/i1k3cRBQ53 ->
German Online Copyright Law to Take Effect in August http://t.co/iarL2Wzhab ->
Russia Signs International Privacy Pact http://t.co/wqp8ZqvfAR ->
Copyright owners denied class status in YouTube suit http://t.co/JM7vimTZ9O… [read post]
17 May 2013, 5:01 am
Merpel sniffs the water forsigns of pollution*Yesterday the First Civil Senate of the German Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) -- one of the most active and influential national intellectual property courts you can ever hope to find in the new Europe -- referred a question regarding the framing of video content to the Court of Justice of the European Union. What the BGH wants to know is this: does the operator of a website who integrates copyright-protected third party video content, which is publicly… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:37 am
In a world of fluctuating intellectual property law, we are used to seeing trends of judicial thought drifting first in one direction and then in another, as courts struggle to maintain the balance between rights owners and their competitors and between the rights of consumers and individuals and the rights and expectations of businesses. But there may be few more fascinating, and regularly shifting, areas of judicial juggling than that of the application of the doctrine of fair use under United… [read post]
16 May 2013, 1:39 pm
On Monday, I posted an article about an issue with the email service MailChimp, which is used by many bloggers to email copies of their posts to subscribers.
In short, MailChimp’s “Forward to a Friend” service was saving copies of forwarded messages on a public Web server and letting those copies be indexed by the search engines. In cases were webmasters were emailing out site content, such as blog posts from their RSS feed, this could result in duplicate content issues.
Today, I… [read post]
16 May 2013, 12:52 pm
Last month, I wrote a review of the service Repost.us in which I said that I loved the service (which I still do) but that I felt it and the entire notion of embedding articles had a tremendous uphill battle.
In short, I laid out the graveyard of companies that had come before Repost.Us, including noting that the “launch” of Repost.Us was actually a relaunch of the service, which actually began life under two other names.
Basically, though embedding media content, such as YouTube videos,… [read post]
16 May 2013, 11:49 am
Yep, you heard right.
The Fluxus Foundation has what seems a great art & law exhibition, © Fluxus: Original Copyright Documents, 1963-1967, at their foundation space at 454 West 19th St.
From their website:
George Maciunas, founder and central coordinator of Fluxus, was an exemplary processor of knowledge. Educated in architecture, painting, art history, graphic design, and musicology, Maciunas’s oeuvre demonstrates incredible diversity. Yet, his multifaceted output is unified… [read post]
16 May 2013, 9:00 am
Victor Perez
The same judge who handed Viacom another defeat in its copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube last month has denied class-action status to a huge population of video copyright owners whose works were posted on YouTube without their permission.
In a case running parallel to the infamous Viacom v. YouTube suit the English Premier League, French Tennis Federation, and various music publishers sued YouTube in 2007 "on behalf of themselves and all… [read post]
16 May 2013, 9:00 am
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1: Copyright Owners Can’t Sue Google’s YouTube as a Group – Judge
First off today, Nate Raymond at Reuters is reporting that a district court in Manhattan has denied copyright owners attempt to certify a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company Google as a class action suit.
The lawsuit, which was filed at about the same time as the 2007 Viacom case, was filed by the English Premier League, the… [read post]