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Pinterest, TechoLlama, Hot Link,Thumb Nails, Copyright, Complaining...
Pintesrest (online Pin Board, hailed as Facebook for Women), TechoLlama (brilliant IP professor with silly handle, so prefer his real name Andrés Guadamuz), complaining photographers, did I make a...
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Pornography Download Copyright Defendant Allowed to Proceed Anonymously
Does the public really need to know who has downloaded “Horny Black Mothers and Daughters #8”? New York Federal Judge Katherine Forest thinks not, at least for now. The John or Jane Doe copyright...
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The Absurdity of eBook Copyright Notice Threats
Rebecca Blain and TechDirt force us to ask the question of whether there are really attorneys practicing law who formulate such draconian threats about what we cannot do with our eBook files: “Your...
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Librarian to Author: Do not Bring Copyright Action Against Us
As the Authors Guild pursues here in New York its injunctive relief copyright case against the Hathitrust Orphan Works project, it sues, among others, Hathitrust, The Regents Of The University Of...
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BBC Reports Copyright Orphan Work Report Due on May 16
The fate of an estimated 25 million English language orphan works hangs in the balance as Great Britian awaits the report of Professor Ian Hargraeves. BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz writes that much of...
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The Georgia State 10 percent Copying Rule….What if 10 Libraries?
A follow up on yesterday’s post: Safe harbor textbook copying percentages for copyright fair use defense. The Georgia State 10 percent Copying Rule….What if 10 Libraries from 10 different library...
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Does Yahoo Facebook Patent War Threaten Startups?
So much for the free and open Internet. Remember back in March, when Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement, claiming ““Facebook’s entire social network model “is based on Yahoo!’s patented social...
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Dish Declaratory Action – Consumers Who Activate Ad-Skipping Cannot Trigger...
Orrick Herrington filed its declaratory judgment relief complaint on behalf of Dish Network yesterday, May 24, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Dish Ad...
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3D Copying – The Next IP Frontier
Stand by for yet another adventure is the epic historical saga “The Copyright laws were never meant to handle this disruptive technology.” From the only Canadian more interesting than Martin Brodeur,...
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Apple rejecting Flattr is blatant anticompetitive behavior
Please visit my above titled post on the Flattr Blog on Apple’s monopolistic actions in rejecting the Flattr micropayment donation application Share on Facebook
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Google Drive Terms of Service Confuse and Cause Copyright Concerns
Cloud search firm Simplexo recently voiced concerns about who owns copyrights to documents stored in in Google Drive. Here is the link to the Terms of Service for the Google Apps Free Agreement. I have...
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EU Parliment Crushes ACTA ( Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)
I refer all to the coverage of the vote at IPKat. The AP photo here is also worth a thousand words, and fun to hear from the new French Socialists now in charge: “the European Parliament has buried...
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Legal Crowdfunding of Equity Under State Blue Sky Laws
Thanks to the blog post of Equity CrowdFunder to Be WeFunder for the ins and outs of Blue Sky registrations for startups in New York, Massachusetts, and California. For the full text of the not yet...
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Aaron Swartz, Civil Disobedience, and Harvard Ethics – Republish of July 2011...
Sorry, Aaron, I did not speak long enough or hard enough. [The July 14, 2011 United States criminal indictment of activist Aaron Swartz, inventor of RSS, for downloading mass quantities of academic...
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Developers Summit to Challenge Software Patents
“. Vague claims, product life cycles shorter than the PTO review process, trolls and general uncertainty threaten to stifle app industry innovation and growth.” Nationwide summit with a New York...
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Copyright Freedom and Edward Snowden
From a op-ed today in the New York Times: “”Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to...
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