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Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
Posting as Implied License
Merely posting a work online does not relinquish all rights. As in other environments, merely placing property in public does not release property rights. The Internet context, however, may indicate that…
The Faculty Lounge
Digital Copyright Law: What Authors Want …
cross posted from madisonian.netWith the second movie in the Twilight series (New Moon) imminently about to appear on the big screen, I found myself getting interested in this pop culture…
The Faculty Lounge
Mid-week Links
John Cassidy in The New Yorker on this year’s economics Nobels (includes a roundup of links to reactions from the econ community). There’s been less talk in the blogoshere about…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Federal Taxation of Intellectual Property Transfers
Bridget J. Crawford (professor of law, Pace Law School) and Mitchell Gans (professor of law, Hofstra University School of Law) have posted on SSRN their article entitled Sticky Copyrights: Discriminatory Tax Restraints on…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Update on Google Book Class Action, Proposed Settlement, and Postponed Fairness Hearing
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Many have been following the federal class action lawsuit against Google: The Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google Inc., No. 05 CV 8136 (S.D.N.Y.). The suit was filed in 2005 by…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Air Coming Out of Marvel Acquisition?
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
I hope no one over at Disney was really surprised when Marvel received 45 copyright termination notices from the family of Jack Kirby last Wednesday. I mean, even I, if prodded,…
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
Should Google be a regulated utility under its “Settlement”?
The Google Book Settlement (GBS) would give Google unprecedented power over hundreds of thousands of copyright owners and control of an asset that may become essential to 1) book…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Creative sentencing term for blogger who leaked GNR creativity
Main July 15, 2009Creative sentencing term for blogger who leaked GNR creativityThis Wired story, headlined "Guns N’ Roses Uploader Gets House Arrest, Will Make Anti-Piracy Ad," notes the creative sentencing…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Case of Interest — Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Readersmay be interested in a case currently pending before the Supreme Court calledReed Elsevier v. Muchnick. It’s a copyright case, but it raises neat civilprocedure issues.Thecase is a class action…
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
“Good faith” in DMCA take-down notice should mean simple honesty.
DMCA Section 512 gives copyright owners an efficient means of responding to online infringements and provides a safe harbor protection for online providers. But some courts suggest that “good faith”…