by Lauren Babst | Feb 19, 2015 | Cases, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Last month, the Supreme Court invited input from the Department of Justice regarding the ongoing Java dispute between Google and Oracle, asking for advice on whether the Court should hear the case. According to the Court’s memo, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli,...
by sindhoo | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
If you are anything like the average college student, you have probably scrambled for a book desperately needed for a research project in the last few days before said project is due. The most common fix to this problem is a technique perfected over the last decade –...
by pratter | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
In yet another unfortunate turn of events in the Authors Guild’s fight to enforce their interpretation of copyright law, the United States District Court in Manhattan ruled in favor of Google in Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. The court held that by digitizing books and...
by amalson | Feb 4, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, MTTLR Journal
The University of Michigan just recently won a lawsuit in which the University was alleged of copyright infringement in its effort to digitize its library contents. On September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines...
by pkeros | Sep 27, 2012 | Commentary
Before I start, I’d like to state that I realize that this topic has been beaten to death, but I’d like this to be a continuing series of posts on intellectual property issues in the video game community, and this situation is fairly straightforward and serves as a...
