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The Trademark Blog
Movie Industry Sues Real Networks Over RealDVD
WSJ.com: Right to Copy DVDs to PCs at Center of Copyright Spat Those of you who had 'three weeks' in the 'how long would it to take for Real Networks'…
The Trademark Blog
Text of Io v Veoh DMCA Ruling and EFF Commentary
EFF: "Required Reading for "User-Generated Content" Sites": In an important ruling handed down yesterday, a federal district court threw out a copyright infringement suit brought by adult video producer Io…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Let’s Go Crazy: What Does It Mean to “Consider” Fair Use?
Stephanie Lenz posted a homemade video on YouTube.com, depicting her toddler son dancing in his walker, with the song "Let's Go Crazy" by "the artist professionally known as Prince" playing…
The IP Law Blog
Viacom V. Youtube: Are Our Internet Privacy Rights Really In Danger?
By: Dale C. Campbell and Serena Crouch, Third Year Law Student at McGeorge School of Law Internet users and privacy advocates across the nation fear they are losing the continuing battle…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Split Ninth Circuit panel affirms below-guideline probation sentence as reasonable
Main July 14, 2008Split Ninth Circuit panel affirms below-guideline probation sentence as reasonableFederal defense practitioners on the West Coast will be pleased to see the Ninth Circuit's latest reasonableness ruling…
The Trademark Blog
“AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge ReTort”
Workbench: "AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge ReTort": [Workbench is] currently engaged in a legal disagreement with the Associated Press, which claims that Drudge Retort users linking to its…
The Trademark Blog
Law School Fact Pattern: Prince, Radiohead, ‘Creep’ and the DMCA
'Creep' by Radiohead is a great song. Eliza Lumley does a good cover. I imagine Prince would too. He performed the song at a concert, someone videotaped his performance, and…
Media Law Prof Blog
Why Safe Harbors Matter: The Fallout From Field v. Google
Miquel Peguera, Columbia Law School and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has published "When the Cached Link is the Weakest Link: Search Engine Caches Under the DMCA." Here is…
Media Law Prof Blog
Interpreting the DMCA
Timothy K. Armstrong, University of Cincinnati College of Law, has published "Fair Circumvention" as University of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper 08-08. Here is the abstract. Judicial decisions construing the…
The Trademark Blog
Viacom v Google in a Nutshell
Today's WSJ has a special section entitled "All Things Digital" that is a must-read for many reasons. From an interview with the CEOs of Viacom and Google we get the…