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• Is Anything Ever Out of Print? Or Google and The Monkey’s Paw

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 498
  As the Google Book Deal approaches its next phase, I am wondering does anything ever go out of print? Pam Samuelson and others have noted the vague nature of the deal. I have poked at some drafting issues at the Public Index. The out of print problem seems like a key issue about why this deal should not proceed. (I am ...
  16 hours ago

• This Week’s Biotech Highlights

  
  Slaw — Authority: 595
  Every week, I travel the world [wide web] in search of interesting new biotech developments.  This week, a smattering of stories from Canada, the U.S. and China are worth noting: In Canada (and presumably elsewhere as well) Merck put out a country-specific press release announcing the closing of its merger with ...
  22 hours ago

• EFF to have panel forum on the future of DVDs

  
  Bill Boushka — Authority: 125
  Although I’m still on the East Coast and cannot attend this, I’m paying more attention to goings on elsewhere, as my future could well hit the road again at some point. Here’s an important event: Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Future of DVD Panel and Happy Hour” on Monday November 9 in San Francisco ...
  2 days ago

• William Patry delivering Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law at Duke

  
  TOC Combined Feed : Tools of Change for Publishing — Authority: 516
  via ustream.tv Google Senior Copyright Counsel Bill Patry, who will be one of our keynote speakers at TOC 2010 , delivered a great lecture at Duke last month dissecting the "moral panic" approach to copyright debate, as exemplified by the late Jack Valenti, former CEO of the MPAA. His talk is just under 30 ...
  2 days ago

• I want my video on demand….

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 498
  Yesterday, while sitting in Toronto airport I had an hour or so to kill so I thought I’d take advantage of my new ear buds (Ann, they’re pink!) and plug into my netbook to watch some video on demand.  To my surprise – although I shouldn’t have been surprised being an IP prof – I discovered that none of my ...
  4 days ago

• Bizarre Beatles Song-Selling Defense: Techies Created—and Can Copyright—New Tunes

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  The music of the Beatles isnt legally available on the Internet. However, a little-known company is not only offering the back catalog of the famous 1960s rock n roll group online but is trying to copyright it, based on what Ars Technicas Law & Disorder blog characterizes as a "entertainingly weird" legal theory. ...
  4 days ago

• Psycho-Acoustic Simulation & Beatles Songs for a Quarter

  
  Slaw — Authority: 595
  I’ve groused here many — perhaps, too many — times about the inability of the Canadian music industry to get it together so that we can listen to music over the internet like our neighbours to the south. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled on BlueBeat , a website streaming music here, when Pandora et al. are ...
  4 days ago

• The Firebowl Controversy

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 467
  One of the other stories I missed while on hiatus involved and artist named John T. Unger who has found himself in the middle of a legal controversy. Unger makes what he calls “firebowls”, which are decorative containers designed for placing a fire in. His bowls come in many different designs and range from ...
  4 days ago

• Law Prof Dismisses Privacy Suit Against Tabloid Above the Law Blog

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  A law professor at the University of Miami has seemingly changed his mind about the federal invasion of privacy suit he filed only last week against the publisher of Above the Law over a 2007 post on the self-described tabloid law blog. Plaintiff Donald Marvin Jones today voluntarily dismissed the Southern District of ...
  5 days ago

• Secret copyright treaty leaks. Its bad.

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  By GottaLaff Um, anyone want to talk me down? The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obamas administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. Its bad. It says: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright ...
  5 days ago

• Law Prof Sues Above the Law, Claims ‘Racist Series of Rants’ About His Arrest

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  A University of Miami law professor arrested but never prosecuted on a charge of trying to solicit an undercover police officer has sued the Above the Law blog for its posts on his predicament. The suit by the African-American professor, Donald Marvin Jones, claims the blog portrayed him in a false light, invaded his ...
  6 days ago

• Google Music Search Launches Outside Canada

  
  Slaw — Authority: 595
  Google’s new music search, Discover Music , has launched — but not in Canada. Partnering with imeem , lala , iLike , Pandora and Rhapsody , all music providing sites, Google will now determine whether your search has a musical aspect and, if so, throw up a result box that lets you listen to an excerpt of ...
  6 days ago

• Ex-Associate Badmouths Former Firm in Legal Blog

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  It isnt what an attorney would generally recommend to a client. But attorney Edward Harrington Heyburn says he was willing to risk litigation when he created a legal blog that badmouths partners at the New Jersey law firm at which he formerly worked, Levinson Axelrod. His Levinson Axelrod Sucks blog "isnt exactly risk ...
  1 week ago

• Hitler Schools Constantin Films on Copyright and Viral Marketing

  
  UsefulArts.us — Authority: 117
  Brad Templeton, chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has produced his own “Downfall” parody video , making fun of the fact that Constantin Films has issued DMCA notices to remove all of the “Downfall” parody videos from YouTube. This little-known film has become an Internet sensation ...
  1 week ago

• See Dick Win. Pay, Defendant, Pay.

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  By now you must have heard about the dustup involving Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The irony for me is that not long after I was learning to read English with the original Dick and Jane at P.S. 225, I was learning Yiddish from an essentially identical book for little secular Yiddishists (it turned out [...]
  1 week ago

• Free call about how one artist is fighting to protect artists’ rights

  
  Art Biz Blog — Authority: 464
  Artist John T. Unger – creator of copyrighted sculptural Artisanal Firebowls – is getting an unwanted education in copyright law. His court case could have far-reaching intellectual property implications for the original work created by other artists and creative entrepreneurs. Join us on this special call to ...
  1 week ago

• Only a Hundred Years Old

  
  The Copyright Alliance Blog — Authority: 416
  “We’re returning to a prior age, one where the economics of music are about performances, not recordings. You know, copyright on recorded music is only about 100 years old.” So said a professor at a dinner I attended the other night. I like this professor, he knows a fair amount about copyright (even if his ...
  1 week ago

• Brooklyn Law Students Warned They Will Be Turned In for Illegal Downloads

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  Students at Brooklyn Law School who illegally downloaded copyrighted movies and TV shows could get some first-hand experience with the court system. Students received an ominous memo claiming to be from chief information officer Phillip Allred, Above the Law reports. The memo warns that those who illegally download ...
  1 week ago

• Building out legal permissions on the semantic web

  
  opencontentlawyer.com — Authority: 491
  So no surprise I’ve been thinking about semantic web technologies and the law, given that I’m here at ISWC 2009 in Washington DC. For those not familiar with this area, my big picture layman’s summary of the technology: Make more stuff machine readable so that we can do smarter and better things with machines. ...
  1 week ago

• EFF launchpads DMCA "Takedown Hall of Shame"

  
  Bill Boushka — Authority: 125
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has put up a “Takedown Hall of Shame” webpage, showing how free speech has been suppressed by various corporate or political interests with bogus copyright (and sometimes trademark) infringement claims, leading to DMCA takedown notices, later found to be legally unsustainable. ...
  1 week ago

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