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Copyright

[Archived Post] For You and Me or Private Property?: Evaluating the Copyright Claim in Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land”

By Jason Lee Guthrie For the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy blog, in fulfillment of obligations for the Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship In early 1940, Woody Guthrie was on the road to New York City, and he was tired. Tired of traveling. Tired of the cold. Tired of having to […]

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Pharma

[Archived Post] C-IP2 Statement on Interactions between Courts and the FDA

Courts have recently questioned Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determinations. The FDA is the administrative agency whose job is to evaluate scientific data to determine if a drug is safe and effective enough to be approved, and post-approval, to continue to evaluate such data to determine if a drug should remain available.   Generally, the most […]

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Copyright Infringement Journalism

[Archived Post] Trump Interview Lawsuit Exposes Uncertainty in a Corner of Copyright Law

Will Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Bob Woodward and publisher Simon & Schuster[1] finally resolve the question of who owns the copyright over interviews? While the complaint has other challenges, it calls out a surprisingly muddled and unresolved area of copyright law. One might assume that the copyright ownership of interviews is a settled question. But […]