by ghans | Nov 7, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
One of the most prominent copyright/fair use cases over the last year has been artist Shepard Fairey’s dispute with the Associated Press (AP) over his famous poster of now-President Obama during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. The poster, which featured a...
by En Hong | Aug 19, 2009 | Commentary |
Richard Posner, 7th circuit appellate judge and expert on all things law and economics, recently commented on the impending death of newspapers. His post blames the “free riding” of blogs and other websites for the year-over-year decline of newspaper...
by Ashley Tan | Aug 8, 2009 | Commentary
When Amazon controversially deleted copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from its Kindles back in July, the ironic parallels between fact and fiction sent the Internet collectively scrambling to brush up on its literary quips. Not a bad thing, at least from...
by Travis Rimando | Aug 7, 2009 | Cases |
The lawsuit between rock artist Jackson Browne and Senator John McCain and the Republican Party was recently settled, and ordered dismissed on August 4, 2009, almost a year after the suit was filed by Browne. Browne filed a lawsuit against McCain, the Republican...
by nsims | Mar 25, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
New Zealand’s government announced this week that their proposed “three strikes”/”graduated response” copyright law would not go into effect, and would be rewritten from the ground up.The law, which would have required ISPs to cut off...
