Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
On reading about the dispute between the Associated Press and the Drudge Retort, I wondered immediately if AP had hired the Count from Sesame Street, and whether Cookie Monster blogs.
Copyright fights with bloggers are nothing new. Heck, they even show up in divorce proceedings occasionally. But this looks like serious overreaching by AP, for three […]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Intermediaries, Scholarship, Media, Peer Production, Blogging
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m traveling to Baltimore tomorrow, where I’ll be speaking later this week at UMD, one of the few law schools that can claim to be older than my own. The occasion is this year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing, and I’ll be delivering an updated version of my talk on the open access movement.
As […]
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Filed under: Open Access, Internet & Society, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Peer Production, Copyright, Law School
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Fun article in the Washington Post about a copyright dispute over the banal “Footprints in the Sand” poem that’s a favorite of poster stores and greeting cards everywhere. There are at least 3 contenders for authorship of (and copyright in) the poem. Why would anyone be eager to claim credit for this annoyingly trite set […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Copyright
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
My new project involves examining legal protections for the public domain under United States copyright law. There’s a doctrinal component to that — what does the law say? — as well as a normative component — why should we care? It’s that latter question that I’ve been noodling around lately.
Anyone who looks for […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Copyright
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Via Boing Boing comes a story about the State of Oregon asserting copyright over its official codification of state laws, the Oregon Revised Statutes. The state’s Office of Legislative Counsel has been sending out C&Ds to groups like Justia and public.resource.org, demanding that they take down their copies of the state laws. The groups are […]
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Filed under: Open Access, Internet & Society, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Copyright, Scholarship
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Paul Caron brought an interesting piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal to my attention: Candid Camera: Trove of Videos Vexes Wal-Mart. The story: about 30 years ago, Wal-Mart hired a small video production firm to record meetings of Wal-Mart’s executives, as well as speeches, shareholder meetings, sales presentations, and the like. The video […]
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Filed under: Video, Copyright, Media
Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
No, it’s not the eighth installment of the Rowling series - rather, it’s the latest installment of the ongoing legal fistfight over RDR Books and Steven Vander Ark’s attempt to publish a book version of the on-line guide to the Harry Potter wizarding world. (I posted briefly on this earlier, when I was annoyed by […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Court Decisions, Trademarks, Copyright, Media, Books
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
That’s the question I’ve been asking myself (and, occasionally, others) for most of the last year. (As some of you know, I’ve spent quite a bit of that time working on a new paper about the DMCA, and I’m not jaded enough yet not to feel a twinge of regret at the prospect […]
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Filed under: RIAA, Internet & Society, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Copyright, Media, Scholarship, Music
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Continuing our proud tradition here at Info/Law of mercilessly spotlighting journalistic cluenessness in matters of intellectual property (all with the best of intentions! right, guys? …guys?), here’s today’s morsel, from “Inside Higher Ed”: Does Clinton Have a Copyright Problem?. The accusation: Senator Clinton has appeared in front of big campaign banners reading “Solutions for America,” […]
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Filed under: Trademarks, Copyright, Voting, Media
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m stuck at CVG, waiting for my repeatedly rescheduled flight to Des Moines for Peter Yu’s 2008 IP Scholars Roundtable. (The weather’s been bad here, and all the outbound Des Moines flights between my originally scheduled one last night and right now have been canceled). If I eventually do make it, it will […]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Scholarship, Law School