While the world*** has been poring over the voluminous rules of the European’s new General Data Protection Regulations that went into effect May 25th (and don’t freak out if you’re not in compliance yet – most of the world isn’t), a...
Nice Copyright! Too Bad it’s Unregistered Updated February 4, 2019: The Supreme Court ruled today, essentially adopting the “registration rule.” See Tara’s blog post. In the United States, we have a stupid way of dealing with copyrights. Here it is:...
Is Ignorance Relevant to Fair Use? It’s time once again for Is It Fair Use?, the mind-bending, pulse-racing game that’s sweeping the nation.1Since 2011! By our estimates, if the game had started sweeping the nation in Miami, it will have spread as far as Hialeah by...
The Wonderful World of Copyright Damages in Software Cases OK, so I’ve been talking—at length—about the Federal Circuit’s recent rejection of Google’s fair use defense for its use of the way Java’s API libraries are organized. So, you might be wondering what’s...
You are more than likely reading this post on the plane or in the airport on your way to Seattle. (For the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, for our seven or so readers who don’t attend). But if you’re headed there, make sure this...
Turning Tables Is Fun, but It Doesn’t Make the Tables Go Away This is my third blog post about the most recent Federal Circuit decision in the Java-Android case, and the second about the Federal Circuit’s fair use analysis. My first post looked at the Federal...
