Don’t Ignore it; Manage it. Let’s say you’re a retailer. You buy stuff from a reputable manufacturer or middleman and turn around the sell it to the general public. You’re pretty safe from most intellectual-property concerns, right? If what you’re selling turns...
Last time, we talked about how the courts in the Google Books and HathiTrust decisions saw public benefit playing into fair use. One of the clear benefits of both projects is expanding access to works to the blind and print-disabled. Both Google Books and the...
Google has been changing the world, in case you hadn’t noticed. One of the ways that Google has done this has been to embark, with the help of many academic institutions and libraries, on a mission to scan ALL THE BOOKS. Google, and the universities and...
“The Cable Defense,” “The Cloud” and More about Causation and Copyright Last time, I tried to make sense of the Supreme Court’s decision in ABC v. Aereo. But there are a couple of major issues that I wasn’t able to touch on: (1) What’s all this about Aereo now saying...
I was pleasantly surprised at all the attention my last blog garnered. Turns out it wasn’t all about my brilliant writing or instant blog fame, but instead it turned out that I had fortuitously written about the idea of a small claims court for copyright...
Note this post was updated the same day it was posted around 9 p.m. my time to address issues raised in one of the comments. I had reversed the polarity on Teleprompter and forgotten that Cablevision pretermitted (i.e., punted) the performance issue on grounds that...
