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 stopping members from [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Media, Scholarship, Trademarks, Video
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 very funny [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Music, Uncategorized, Video
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 screen. [...]
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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 acclimated [...]
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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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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 following video: [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Trademarks, Video
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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Lots of MSM outlets are talking about a homemade YouTube video attacking Hillary Clinton by remixing the iconic Apple “1984″ Super Bowl commercial that introduced the Macintosh. (Note the iPod added to the waist of the woman who busts up the Orwellian meeting!) The commentary has many interesting points, which I will not repeat, about [...]
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I reported last week the great news that a major insurer agreed to provide coverage against copyright liability for documentary films that rely on the fair use doctrine in accordance with the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use (as certified by a lawyer’s letter). Now comes even better news: another insurer has [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Media, Scholarship, Video
One of the most frustrating obstacles to fair use of copyrighted content has been the failure of insurers to recognize the fair use doctrine. Typically, insurers have demanded that every scrap of copyrighted material be “cleared” — that is, licensed — which requires would-be users to (1) exert a lot of logistical effort to locate [...]
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