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21 Oct 2010, 8:20 am
I’ve made clear I consider anonymity on the internet a stance often abused and almost always one that detracts from the speaker’s credibility, but it also can be a legal problem when anonymous writers do real damage, without justification, to the targets of their words. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 7:57 am
From cnet news: Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of willful copyright infringement on Thursday in a Minneapolis federal court and must pay the recording industry $1.92 million. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 10:23 am
I’ve long thought of writing about Righthaven as an embodiment of copyright gone mad. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 6:17 pm
After posting Campbell Soup’s letter to Andy Warhol expressing admiration for his Campbell Soup paintings 2 weeks ago, I’ve been asked by several people whether Warhol was ever sued for his appropriations of copyrighted photographs. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 11:04 am
Before beginning my teaching career, I was a commercial litigator for almost 12 years. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 5:29 pm
Thinking about the uses and abuses of boilerplate, I began wondering where the term came from. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 6:19 am
30 Jan 2012, 8:20 pm
One of the oddest points to get across to non-lawyers, lawyers-to-be, and even many lawyers is that what the law prescribes and what actually happens are 2 entirely different things and that it is as crucial to being a good lawyer to understand what actually happens and why as it is to know the laws. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 5:34 am
In “Beyond Authorship: Refiguring Rights in Traditional Culture and Bioknowledge,” the Case Western Reserve University English Department’s Authorship Collaborative (building on the work of my colleague and friend Martha Woodmansee) explains that the prevailing view of an author as the originator of new works is a relatively recent phenomenon arising out of the Romantic Movement and its view of an artist as someone uniquely inspired. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 7:09 am
I’m not normally one to bemoan the bringing of lawsuits, and I’m not even bemoaning the fact Jonathan Tasini is able to bring his lawsuit (pdf) “against the Huffington Post [that] hinges . . . on the idea that the site, and Arianna Huffington herself, were ‘unjustly enriched’ in the $315 million sale to AOL because bloggers like him worked for free. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 9:43 am
Help give creativity a news outlet on the Internet! [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 7:28 am
Scott Berkun compares “book smarts” to “street smarts” and concludes: “street smarts kicks book smarts ass. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 6:14 am
In an installation entitled Whose Coat is that Jacket You’re Wearing? [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 5:42 am
Ray Ward is a wise man. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 8:51 am
Court documents are public. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 7:37 pm
18 Aug 2010, 6:15 pm
It’s well worth revisiting the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit (the Circuit in which the court hearing Shepard Fairey’s lawsuit against AP and Manny Garcia is pending) in Blanch v. [read post]
31 Aug 2010, 8:12 am
6 Jul 2012, 7:43 pm
19 Feb 2010, 9:57 am
For those whose knowledge of history doesn’t extend back to the pre-Reagan era, here’s a reminder from 1964 about the co-sponsor of this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). [read post]
