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5 Mar 2010, 4:56 am by pfriedman
Walter Dellinger, a partner with O’Melveney & Myers, and former head of the Office of Legal Counsel, writes today (in relation to my passionate rejection of Lynn Cheney’s attack on lawyers who represented Guantanamo Detainees): It never occurred to me on the day that Defense Department lawyer Rebecca Snyder and Lt. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 8:45 am by pfriedman
One of the reasons I find disputes concerning the authenticity and provenance of works of art so fascinating is that the art market often magnifies the subjectivity and volatility that all markets are subject to. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 8:55 am by pfriedman
From Jurist The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] has overruled the findings of a report [DOJ Ethics Report] released Friday concluding that two Bush administration lawyers committed professional misconduct when they wrote memos [JURIST news archive] authorizing the use of certain interrogation techniques that critics have called torture. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 12:54 pm by pfriedman
I have made the point on this blog that the digitization of information and the internet have made the old ways of doing business with information (be it entertainment, news, science, or art) obsolete and that efforts to force the new media into legal forms that evolved with the ways businesses had organized the old technologies are doomed to failure or to killing the innovation those laws are supposed to promote. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 3:41 pm by pfriedman
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Let Freedom Ka-Ching www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 7:29 am
Will the judge’s decision that 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye infringes J.D. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 6:17 am
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this brilliant account of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 7:09 am by pfriedman
I’ve made clear my view that Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope poster does not infringe the copyright in the photograph that Fairey used as the source of the image because it is so “transformative” of the image — imagine the impact a poster of the original photograph with the word “Hope” emblazoned on it might have had and then consider the question. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 7:21 am
Changes in reality requires changes in the law, in the ways we practice law, and in the ways we teach. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 4:39 am by pfriedman
Tim Smith, with whom I participated in a twitter chat 2 nights ago, expressed there and on his blog yesterday, the kind of thinking about the conflict between Donald Rosenberg, the Plain Dealer, and the Cleveland Orchestra that represents a problem and dispute resolving attitude that, I think, the best lawyers embody. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 11:32 am by pfriedman
In the Atlantic, there is an interview with “intellectual property scholar (and Atlantic contributor) Kembrew McLeod,” who, with copyright lawyer Peter DiCola, argues in Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling that “current digital copyright practices unfairly burden musicians who sample snippets of other artists’ songs in their own music. begins by taking us back to the golden age of hip-hop, demonstrating how lawsuits quashed a nascent art form during its… [read post]