Intellectual Property

Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expensePosted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on Jun 16, 2008 9:44 AM Subscribe Alerts7 comments: Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and...[Read the rest]

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Stanford Information Law Symposium: Though it could scarcely be more cumbersomely named — the Transatlantic Information Law Symposium — this upcoming (and free) program at Stanford Law School looks excellent, featuring such big... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 21, 2008 10:14 AM; 2 Comments
A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies': In putting together a list of what I consider to be relatively clueful site policies, terms, and guidelines, I just stumbled on BoingBoing's List of Wonderful Policies. And it is.... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 14, 2008 10:38 AM; 2 Comments
Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit: "Copyright in a Converged World" proved a hot topic at Tech Policy Summit '08, as EFF's Fred von Lohmann and TiVo's Matt Zinn took on Patrick Ross of the Copyright... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Mar 31, 2008 12:09 AM; 6 Comments
Lawrence Lessig, congresscritter nominee: With a Bay Area Congressional seat set for special election in two months, Berkman Executive Director John Palfrey has launched a grassroots campaign to convince Professor Lawrence Lessig to run.... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Feb 18, 2008 9:49 AM; 3 Comments
Docstoc for law school (a.k.a. today's young whippersnappers don't know how good they have it!): My goodness. Check out the impressive array of law school outlines and other law school and bar exam resources being amassed at Docstoc. Aside from being incredibly useful, my... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jan 30, 2008 10:38 AM; 1 Comment
Christmas is a time for mashups: As I inevitably download "new" holiday music each year, it's painfully apparent we wouldn't *have* much new holiday music if it weren't for sampling, remixes, remakes, and mashups. The iTunes... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Dec 24, 2007 10:54 AM
Kindling a controversy: Ed Champion is investigating whether certain bloggers included in Amazon's Kindle launch were made "Kindle Blogs" without authorization or licensing. He cites two examples (Daniel McGowan and Cork Gaines) of... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Nov 20, 2007 11:29 AM; 3 Comments
Want to know what over 7,500 ZDNet readers think about copying digital media?: Then get on over to Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, where his poll on digital media ethics has garnered an overwhelming, and highly educational, response. [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 15, 2007 12:28 PM; 4 Comments
WikiPatents: 1 year old and 10 million entries: WikiPatents, "a public community that reviews US patents and pending patent applications," is one year old and now home to information and commentary about over 10 million patents and patent... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 15, 2007 12:12 PM
In the trenches with Live Web law at EFF's Bootcamp: If you're doing business on the Live Web, get thee this Wednesday, October 10, to EFF's Bootcamp, "a one-day session for Web 2.0 workers on user generated content:" Does your... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Oct 8, 2007 10:56 AM; 1 Comment
Creative Commons, the Live Web, and quickie divorce info centers: Dennis Kennedy pointed me to Shelley Powers, who pointed me in turn to Slashdot and Professor Lessig. All concern a lawsuit pending in Dallas, TX against Virgin Mobile and Creative... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Sep 26, 2007 11:59 AM; 2 Comments
IP and the user generated economy at TechCrunch40: Some very competitively interesting Web companies are being launched and/or featured today and tomorrow at TechCrunch40. In the wrap-up portion of the Community Collaboration session, former Napster executive Don Dodge... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Sep 17, 2007 5:07 PM
It's all about the team, it's all about respect...: Following up on the Nixon Peabody song story, it's worth noting: One of David Lat's related posts is now the sixth fifth Google search result for Nixon Peabody; and The... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 25, 2007 7:55 PM
Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair use: News reporting is one of the classic examples of fair use, and blogger David Lat contends the doctrine covers his posting a groaningly bad "motivational" song leaked from a large... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 23, 2007 10:43 PM; 4 Comments
Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the law: Tim O'Reilly and John Markoff have good writeups on public.resource.org, which aims among other things to create "an unencumbered repository of all [U.S.] federal and state case law and codes."... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 22, 2007 11:49 AM; 2 Comments
Lawgarithms Links for 8/13/07: Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web (and other) issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 13, 2007 11:24 AM; 6 Comments
Don't miss Robert Scoble's interview with IBM's IP guru, Dave Kappos: Robert Scoble sat down with IBM's chief intellectual property counsel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to discuss current trends toward open standards, open source, collaboration, globalization, etc. Great conversation. [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 13, 2007 10:14 AM
Social networks: what goes out, what goes in: The Social Networking 3.0 panel at AlwaysOn considered issues of identity, attention, and intellectual property. [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 2, 2007 4:28 PM
AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: lawyers for Google, IBM, and Apple ponder the patent system: According to lawyers from Google, IBM, Apple, and two respected IP law firms, the patent system needs help, it's more important than ever to think about protecting innovations early and... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 1, 2007 2:21 PM
Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?: I can scarcely begin to catalog the legal considerations related to the fact that someone is masquerading as Chris Pirillo on Pownce. [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 28, 2007 9:04 PM; 4 Comments
Valleywag latest example of cutting Creative Commons corners: Valleywag appreciates Dan Farber's considerable skills as a photojournalist, but apparently not enough to heed the straightforward terms of the applicable Creative Commons license. [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 27, 2007 8:38 AM
Embedding a headache: Just because something is on YouTube doesn't mean you're in the clear from a copyright standpoint if you embed it. (Same goes for Flickr, etc.) Jonathan Bailey picked my brain... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 9, 2007 12:47 PM; 1 Comment
Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media: There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jun 20, 2007 5:36 PM
If reputation is money in the bank, who owns the PIN?: As evidenced by the many lawsuits against Google concerning PageRank or other search result (read reputational) slippage, the notion that you own your digital reputation — even if it is... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jun 6, 2007 10:17 AM
Day 1 of iTunes Plus has its minuses: As Bob Lefsetz rants, the iTunes Plus launch today has not been without its hiccups. He's particularly ticked off that users must go through a laborious "change preferences" process once... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2007 2:01 PM; 4 Comments
IP and the intangibles of access and use: Hank Barry asked me recently to consider why humans think differently (e.g., we're likely to have less patience for restrictions and controls) about intangible property than we do about things... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2007 10:50 AM
Amused me too: Was just about to post something along these lines, but see The Vulture already has done all that I could do, and more: USA Today reports that the Regal Entertainment... [Read the rest]; Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: May 30, 2007 10:19 AM
Google at Risk: YouTube class action lawsuit changes DMCA copyright game: YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 11, 2007 9:33 AM; 5 Comments
Web content DNA Map: Copyright control, monetization online: What is the Web’s copyright content DNA?Can it be mapped, tracked and appropriately monetized?Jim Brock believes so, and so does the company he founded, Attributor.Brock, Attributor co-founder and CEO, addressed... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 9, 2007 1:31 AM; 2 Comments
Google's YouTube: Is NBC copyright lawsuit near?: Will NBC be the next major media company to sue Google’s YouTube for “massive copyright infringement”? YouTube: What is NBC’s end game? I asked in January, citing Rick Cotton, NBC... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 6, 2007 8:44 PM; 2 Comments