Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’m late to the party celebrating the Second Circuit’s terrific new opinion in Cartoon Network LP v. CSC Holdings, Inc., which is the appeals court’s caption for the case formerly known as 20th Century Fox v. Cablevision. As readers of this blog might recall, I joined an amicus brief in the case, limited to [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Video
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: Copyright, Media, Video
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Pretty drunk, apparently. The key issue is whether you’ll drive it well, or instead plow into a reef and spill millions of gallons of oil into a fragile ecosystem.
My friend and colleague Colette Routel has written an amicus brief on the Exxon case (that’s the Exxon Valdez case). She’s also explained the case to the [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Law School, Minnesota, Scholarship, Video, civil procedure, international
Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, as they say. Last year, Bill blogged here about the NFL’s efforts to bully churches into stopping their members from gathering together to watch the Super Bowl. Fast forward twelve months, and we learn … that the NFL is trying to bully churches into [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Media, Scholarship, Trademarks, Video
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
There has been extensive commentary and derision around the legal blogosphere about a preposterous corporate song commissioned by the law firm of Nixon Peabody, and then the firm’s subsequent efforts to threaten those who mocked it with IP saber-rattling. David Lat first posted the song, and here he summarizes the ensuing flapdoodle. A [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Music, Uncategorized, Video
Posted on June 1st, 2007 by Tim Armstrong
Professor Ed Felten’s Freedom to Tinker blog is one of the must-read sites in the cyber/IP field (helpfully listed right there in our blogroll, see?), expertly blending the technical perspective of computer science with a solid appreciation of legal principles. But if you visit the site at the moment, you’ll get only a blank [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Copyright, Digital Media, Encryption, Software, Video
Posted on May 24th, 2007 by Tim Armstrong
This clever video stitches together tiny snippets from more than two dozen Disney films in a ten-minute primer on the basics of federal copyright law and the fair use doctrine. The one-clip-per-spoken-word style is a little jarring and hard to follow at first (well, it was for me, at least), but you will become [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Video
Posted on March 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
I wrote before about why Apple might not prevail if it sued the maker of the “Hillary 1984″ video, which remashed a classic Apple commercial to attack Senator Clinton’s presidential candidacy. But I acknowledged that it was a close call.
This, however, is not a close call: Gina Rosenblum, who claims to own TV and [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Video, Voting
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Tim Armstrong
My colleague, Professor Adam Steinman, has written widely and thoughtfully on federal civil procedure. Like certain other law professors, however, Adam is a (frustrated?) musical artist. Adam recently found a potentially lucrative outlet for his creativity: he entered Intuit’s clever TurboTax Tax Rap contest, and a shot at a $25,000 payday, with the [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Trademarks, Video
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
The Webcast of Google In Court: Copyright and the Universal Library is now available from Wayne State University Law School’s Web site. (You need RealPlayer to open the file.) The event was a huge success; Professors Oren Bracha, Hannibal Travis, and Diane Zimmerman gave thoughtful presentations on Google’s copyright issues, and we had a spirited [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Search Engines, Video