By David Atkinson David Atkinson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and a 2026-2027 IPPI Edison Fellow. The legal argument that could either protect copyright forever — […]
[Archived Post] Copyright and Tattoos: New Amicus Brief in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg; Oct. 29 Virtual Clinic for Visual Artists
CIP2 congratulates the Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at Scalia Law, led by Professor Sandra Aistars, and Student Advocate Natalie Nachman, and supported by Counsel of Record Matt Hersh of […]
[Archived Post] Authors are Humans and Creativity is a Function of Humanness: What the Mannion Court Can Teach Us About Generative AI’s Relationship to Authorship
By Molly Stech* * The blog post below and the law review article it links to are the individual thoughts and views of the author and should not be attributed […]
[Archived Post] Panel 5A: Generative AI & Human Authorship (C-IP2 2023 Annual Fall Conference)
The following post comes from Jake L. Bryant, a student in the Intellectual Property Law LL.M. program at Scalia Law and a Research Assistant at C-IP2. On October 12th and […]
[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, […]
[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 […]
[Archived Post] Publishers prevail in lawsuit against Internet Archive
On Friday the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled in favor of Hachette and other major book publishers, and against Internet Archive (IA) in a […]
[Archived Post] C-IP2 2022 Fall Conference Panel Discusses Copyright Under Pressure
The following post comes from Cala Coffman, a 2L at Scalia Law and Research Assistant at C-IP2. At the recent C-IP2 conference entitled IP on the Wane: IP on the […]
[Archived Post] C-IP2 Statement Commemorating Marybeth Peters
C-IP2 is saddened by the death of former Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters — an accomplished and inspiring copyright lawyer who led the U.S. Copyright Office from 1994-2010. Register Peters […]
[Archived Post] Paradise Rejected: A Conversation about AI and Authorship with Dr. Ryan Abbott
This post comes from Sandra Aistars, Clinical Professor and Director of the Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School, and Senior Fellow for Copyright […]