Old Licensing Models and Netflix’s Future

Posted on June 7th, 2006 by William McGeveran

This morning’s New York Times had a neat story about Netflix [reg/$$$ req'd]. This phenomenon is Exhibit A in the argument for the “Long Tail.” According to the Times, every day customers order between 35,000 and 40,000 of the 60,000 titles available from Netflix. The article also asks and answers a question I’d asked myself: [...]

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Presuming Harm from IP Infringement

Posted on June 7th, 2006 by William McGeveran

Copyright law guru William Patry has posted a thorough and interesting critique of the presumption of irreparable harm that most courts apply in copyright cases. It dovetails nicely with the Supreme Court’s recent eBay decision in the patent context (which I discussed here). And if the idea catches on, it has some nice potential application [...]

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