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10 May 2013, 7:42 am
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1: Members of Congress Finally Introduce Serious DMCA Reform
First off today, Timothy B. Lee at Ars Technica reports that a new bill introduces in the United States House of Representatives aims to reform the anti-circumvention rules in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it legal to not only unlock cellphones and other devices, but also any content for legal uses.
The bill, named the Unlocking… [read post]
10 May 2013, 6:49 am
10 May 2013, 6:15 am
Aurich Lawson
After years of fine-tuning a business model built around copyright lawsuits over pornographic movies, prolific anti-piracy lawyer John Steele is now on the receiving end of a devastating sanctions order by a federal judge in Los Angeles, who has recommended a criminal investigation of Steele and his colleagues. For "copyright trolling" critics ranging from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to… [read post]
10 May 2013, 5:45 am
Copyright assignments. There are a myriad of ways for them to be challenged or be ineffective. Three recent cases illustrate their potential frailties; one from the US and two from Canada.
Yesterday’s decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Righthaven LLC v Hoehn 2013 WL 1908876 (9th.Cir.May 9, 2013) spells the end of the copyright troll Righthaven. It gained substantial notoriety by commencing lawsuits alleging copyright infringement in articles published in the Las Vegas… [read post]
10 May 2013, 5:30 am
Canadian Standards Association suing company over electrical code guide it’s published for decades http://t.co/z0hniyGyyp ->
Network Solutions seizes over 700 domains registered to Syrians http://t.co/sHYXD1rka4 ->
U.S court scrutinizes class suit against Google e-book project http://t.co/QcWuscE92Q ->
Google, authors wrangle in court again over digital books http://t.co/cSL74iD564 ->
Apple Seeks Android Source Code Records in Samsung Suit http://t.co/7h87BwLPp7… [read post]
9 May 2013, 9:35 pm
We figure the pictures will help! [read post]
9 May 2013, 9:15 pm
According to The Art Newspaper, Patrick Cariou will ask the 13-judge federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the case. [read post]
9 May 2013, 3:05 pm
I have much to catch up on after my blogging hiatus due to a very busy few months but the Ninth Circuit opinion today confirming the demise of Righthaven is short and to the point and worthy of a quick mention.
The gist of the case is that Righthaven filed copyright infringement claims against Wayne Hoehn and Thomas DiBiase for posting articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal online. Righthaven claimed it had the right to sue for copyright infringement based on assignment agreements from the… [read post]
9 May 2013, 2:21 pm
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been following and tracking Plagiarism Today’s content more broadly and more carefully than normal.
I’m testing out a new service that’s aimed at bloggers and works to make tracking blog posts much easier online. My research isn’t done yet, so this isn’t a review (that should be coming early next week) but it’s given me a chance to look more broadly at my content, including on posts I hadn’t bothered to track before.
With… [read post]
9 May 2013, 1:13 pm
Earlier this year, Ryan Radia and I spilled a lot of ink on these pages critiquing the various “cell phone unlocking” bills that were introduced in reaction to a successful White House petition. Our assessment of these bills was that they ranged from timid to unhelpful. Their biggest vice was that they were generally band-aids and temporary fixes aimed solely at cell phones and not the underlying problem of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision.
Today, I’m happy to see… [read post]
9 May 2013, 11:32 am
Originally posted 2008-01-24 15:30:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterNolo’s Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Blog links to this story here in answering the question, “How do I create a non-infringing board game”?”
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9 May 2013, 11:32 am
Originally posted 2006-07-30 11:16:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review:
The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether copyrighted or not — instantaneous and virtually irreversible.
Videos are uploaded, downloaded and re-uploaded under different authors’ names: YouTube users know this from having tried to find the “original” version of some videos, which have… [read post]
9 May 2013, 11:30 am
By Eric Goldman
Righthaven LLC v. Hoehn, No. 11-16751 and No. 11-16776 (9th Cir. May 9, 2013)
It's been a rough week for copyright trolls. First, Judge Wright destroyed the Prenda Law enterprise in a sanction-filled opinion. Second, today the Ninth Circuit emphatically rejected Righthaven's attempt to manufacture copyright standing. I don't see how either the Prenda Law outfit or Righthaven survive these blows. Both offer a good cautionary tale for anyone who thinks there's gold in copyright… [read post]
9 May 2013, 9:47 am
Righthaven LLC v. Hoehn, No. 22-16751 (9th Cir. May 9, 2013)
The copyright holder in certain newspaper articles granted to Righthaven the awkwardly-articulated rights “requisite to have Righthaven recognized as the copyright owner of the [articles] for purposes of Righthaven being able to claim ownership as well as the right to seek redress for past, present, and future infringements of the copyright . . . in and to the [articles].”
After the district court dismissed some of… [read post]
9 May 2013, 8:52 am
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1: Google Says Authors Can’t Sue Over Digital Books as Group
First off today, Don Jeffrey at Bloomberg reports that Google and the Authors Guild were recently before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals over their lawsuit, which has the Authors Guild suing Google over the search giant’s scanning of millions of books for the purpose of including them in Google Book Search.
At issue before the Appeals Court is… [read post]
9 May 2013, 8:11 am
Over at Freedom to Tinker, Steve Schultze has a response to my Reason article about Craigslist suing its competitors. Steve expresses some surprise that I would suggest that we might want to recognize a new property right since I have been so critical of the excesses of our current IP regime. Let me take a stab at reconciling that seeming paradox.
First, I should say I’m sympathetic to Steve’s position, which he shares with many others, and which may well be right. I wrote the Reason… [read post]
9 May 2013, 6:02 am
The Librarian of Congress has announced the appointment of two new judges to the Copyright Royalty Board – marking a total change in the three judge board since the decision in the last webcasting royalty case (about which we wrote here). The two new judges are David Strickler and Jesse Feder. Mr. Strickler will serve through 2016, taking the position of Judge Wisnewski (who resigned about a year ago) as the economics expert required by the statute creating the Board. Mr.… [read post]
9 May 2013, 5:30 am
Obama may back internet surveillance http://t.co/byxhIzuySB ->
Downloadify lets Chrome users copy MP3s of Spotify songs – contributory infingement? http://t.co/G3bIM57G1p ->
Proposed U.S. Law Aims to Counter Cybertheft with Import Bans http://t.co/OCgspM6Pjt ->
Microsoft issuing takedown notices for third-party Windows Phone Facebook apps http://t.co/ys3KGMZr1v ->
California Cracks Down On 3D-Printed Guns http://t.co/qMbwaPqmaN ->
Prenda lawyer downplays devastating order,… [read post]
9 May 2013, 5:29 am
Do copyright and contract licensing policies adopted by art museums to restrict access to reproduced images of original artwork constitute overreaching? In his article, Museum Policies and Art Images: Conflicting Objectives and Copyright Over-Reaching, Dr. Kenneth D. Crews (Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of Columbia University's Copyright Advisory Office), explores the idea that while art museums have legitimate reasons for imposing restrictive policies, the broad and varied requirements… [read post]
8 May 2013, 2:39 pm
Welcome to
the month of May.
Graduation season is
here, and Jeff and I would like to send out big congratulations to law clerks Katherine West,
Will Dugoni and Ben
Shaw. Enjoy the ceremony, the party and the short
break…and then get ready to start studying for the Bar
Exam.
A couple
notes on this month’s podcast, which can be found below, and my conversation
with Rebecca Brian the COO at NextSpace.
Our legal discussion had to do with business entities, but… [read post]