In an op-ed piece for The Los Angeles Times, Professor Pamela Samuelson weighs the value of creating a digital collection of all the world’s books against the challenges of overcoming copyright law expenses and barriers.
Last month Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy hosted an event that looked at the state of online copyright enforcement. Video is now available from ‘Copyright Cat-and-Mouse: New Developments in Online Enforcement.’
Professor James Grimmelmann, New York Law School, examines a current copyright infringement case between the silent magician Teller and a Dutch magician. Professor Grimmelmann examines the complaint in the case as well as the registration of the specific magic trick in order to determine what the “work” protected by copyright is, and whether Teller’s registration can support anything beyond the four corners of the stage directions.
Professor James Grimmelmann, New York Law School, examines Aereo’s plans to capture over-the-air TV signals and stream them to customers in the New York area against the U.S. copyright laws.
TAP scholar Peter DiCola will be moderating a panel on “Copyright and the Future of Entertainment” at next week’s symposium on intellectual property and the influence of technology.
Much to my happiness, the internets are in a frenzy about the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (aka SOPA).
Piracy is a top concern for U.S. lawmakers. Two bills now pending in Congress, the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 and the Stop Online Piracy Act, are expected to generate a lot of debate as they come up for votes this legislative session. Professor Mark Lemley and co-authors David S. Levine, and David G. Post examine these proposed bills in their article, “Don’t Break the Internet.”
Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School debates the Stop Online Piracy Act on “The Colbert Report.”
Jason Mazzone, the Gerald Baylin Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, has just published Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law (Stanford University Press, 2011). Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales calls the book “a must read for anyone who cares about the future of creativity” and says that it will “transform debates about balancing private property with public access to information in the digital age.”
The IP Colloquium, hosted by UCLA Law professor Doug Lichtman, presents a fireside chat with two senior executives from Verizon: Executive Vice President Tom Tauke and Assistant Vice President Link Howeing. Among other topics, they talk about the role ISPs should play when it comes to discouraging copyright infringement online.