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IP @ MG
Playing the word association game with “Mardi Gras” might yield a variety of results such as carnival, party, parades, beads, King Cake, and a host of things that I probably…
PropertyProf Blog
Salib on Who Owns Street Art
Peter Salib (Chicago - Student) has posted The Law of Banksy: Who Owns Street Art? (Chicago Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Street Art -- generally, art that is produced on…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Operator of Second-Largest Music Piracy Cyberlocker in United States Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Criminal Copyright Infringement
First Criminal Copyright Infringement Sentence Imposed for a Cyberlocker Operator The operator of the RockDizMusic.com music piracy website and cyberlocker was sentenced today to serve 36 months in prison, announced…
The Faculty Lounge
Big Victory for Google and Fair Use in Google Books Litigation
Yesterday, the Second U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the lower court decision in the ongoing litigation between the Authors Guild and Google Books, holding that the Google Books Project does…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Oprah and Beyonce as Copyright Defendants
By Tracy Thomas
Toni Lester (Babson), Oprah, Beyonce, and the "Girls Who Run the World": Are Black Female Culture Producers Gaining Ground in Intellectual Property Law? 15 Wake Forest J. IP Law 1 (2015)Oprah Winfrey…
PropertyProf Blog
DiCola on Valuing Control Over Property
Peter DiCola (Northwestern) has posted Valuing Control (Michigan Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Control over property is valuable in and of itself. Scholars have not fully recognized or explored…
Austin Technology Law Blog
I Was Wrong. SCOTUS Denies Cert In Google v. Oracle.
Although certainly less high profile than Obergefell v. Hodges and King v. Burwell (gay marriage and Obamacare, ICYMI while vacationing on Mars), Google, Inc. v. Oracle America, Inc. has some…
Law & Economics Prof Blog
SSRN Top Ten, Law & Economics of Private Law, 4/3/15
By BDG
1338Hello Barbie: First They Will Monitor You, Then They Will Discriminate Against You. Perfectly. Irina D. Manta and David S. Olson Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law and Boston College Law…
PropertyProf Blog
What “Blurred Lines” Says About Copyright
By propertyprof
Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman take a look at copyright implications of the recent lawsuit between Marvin Gaye's estate and the songwriters behind “Blurred Lines,” 2013's most discussed single:Members of…
PropertyProf Blog
Larry Summers Comes Out Against Exclusionary Zoning
One paragraph on a larger shift in former Harvard President's thinking:I spoke with Summers on the phone last week to get more details about his thinking. One of his central…