At 27 days and counting, if you have European customers or clients, it’s time to take a look at your Privacy Policy. On May 25, 2018, the Global Data Protection Regulations handed down by the European Parliament as Regulation EU 2016/679, will go into effect. By now,...
A Riddle We Didn’t Know We’d Been Asked Is Answered. It was legitimately shocking when the Federal Circuit reversed a jury verdict that Google’s use of Java to make the Android operating system was a fair use. Not because the Federal Circuit disagreed with the trial...
Maybe We Could Do Something About It? For all of copyright law’s technicalities and niceties, it can come as a shock to learn that we lack a clear understanding of infringement. Often, this isn’t a problem. If you’re photocopying a book, putting a digital photograph...
Where in the World Is Carmen Polska? One of the really exciting things about the early days of true1I.e., actual access to the internet, as opposed to leased-line services like Prodigy and CompuServe. internet access—roughly around the same time as the World Wide Web...
Transformative Use Won’t Transform into a Monster, After All If you are a frequent player of “Is It Fair Use?”, the exciting game in which I give you a fact pattern and you try (and fail) to guess whether the use was fair or not1And, really, who isn’t?, then you...
