Citing Campbell v Acuff and Sun Trust Bank v Houghton Mifflin, District Judge Batts lambasted any contention held by the defendants that 60 Years Later was a work of parodic comment or criticism: "the Court found such contentions to be post-hoc rationalizations employed through vague generalizations about the alleged naiveté of original, rather than reasonably perceivable parody. [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included:The European call for copyright extension for performers: (John Carroll), (The IP Factor), (Spicy IP), (Public Knowledge), (IPR-Helpdesk), (Techdirt), (Innovationpartners),Full CAFC to reexamine the scope of subject matter patentability for business methods, also to consider whether it is appropriate to reconsider or overrule State Street Bank… [read post]