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The Absence of Justice Breyer
Main Saturday, May 20, 2023The Absence of Justice BreyerOn Thursday, the Court issued its opinion in the Andy Warhol copyright case. FWIW, I think that the majority erred in its…
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Kagan on Velazquez and Bacon (and Lain on Cortada)
Main Thursday, May 18, 2023Kagan on Velazquez and Bacon (and Lain on Cortada) Justice Kagan devotes the final ten pages of her Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith dissent (begin at…
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Sotomayor and Kagan
Main Thursday, May 18, 2023Sotomayor and KaganI do not know enough copyright law to comment on Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (I hope one of my colleagues will write something…
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JOTWELL: Kalajdzic on Tang on copyright class actions
Main Friday, February 10, 2023JOTWELL: Kalajdzic on Tang on copyright class actionsThe new Courts Law essay comes from Jasminka Kalajdzic (Windsor), reviewing Xiyin Tang, The Class Action as Licensing and…
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Copyright and Compelled Speech
Main Monday, December 05, 2022Copyright and Compelled SpeechIn listening to the argument this morning, I thought about the following test that the Court could use. There seemed to be agreement…
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Amanda Levendowski on “Defragging Feminist Cyberlaw”
By Jamie Abrams
Amanda Levendowski has posted a forthcoming article, Defragging Feminist Cyberlaw, on SSRN. The article is forthcoming in volume 37 of the Berkeley Tech. L. J. in 2023. The abstract explains: In…
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Intellectual Property in Class Notes
Main Tuesday, August 24, 2021Intellectual Property in Class NotesTo piggyback on the prior post about "The Chair," there is a scene in which a suspended professor is asked to give…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Copyright Jurisprudence
By Tracy Thomas
Ryan Vacca & Ann Bartow, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Copyright Jurisprudence, 22 Nevada L.J. (forthcoming 2022)When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, the world lost a trailblazer for…
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Google/Oracle
Main Tuesday, April 06, 2021Google/OracleA lot of great commentary on the long awaited SCOTUS decision. It is a win for more competition and innovation. Mark Lemley's discussion of the case…
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Still getting jurisdictionality wrong
Main Friday, October 23, 2020Still getting jurisdictionality wrongAn unpublished Ninth Circuit opinion holds the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over a copyright dispute because, as alleged, all infringing acts occurred…