As digital piracy shifts away from torrent downloads and towards unauthorized streaming and theft-based extortion, stakeholders from all parts of the creativity community are reassessing their efforts to fight online […]
[Archived Post] From Star Wars to La La Land: How Intellectual Property Fuels Films
The following post comes from Mandi Hart, a rising third-year law student at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, who worked as a video producer before going to law […]
[Archived Post] New CPIP Policy Brief: Open-Access Mandates and the Seductively False Promise of “Free”
CPIP has published a new policy brief entitled Open-Access Mandates and the Seductively False Promise of “Free.” The brief, written by CPIP Legal Fellow Bhamati Viswanathan and CPIP Director of […]
[Archived Post] Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act is First Step Towards a Modern Copyright Office
The House Judiciary Committee today overwhelmingly approved the bipartisan Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act by a vote of 27-1. Introduced last Thursday by Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking […]
[Archived Post] Another Huge Setback in CloudFlare’s Quixotic Campaign to Protect Pirate Sites
Last August, I wrote about CloudFlare’s “desperate new strategy” to protect MP3Skull, a notorious pirate site that was sued by various recording companies for copyright infringement. CloudFlare offers content delivery […]
[Archived Post] Kodi Software Enabling Widespread Copyright Infringement
Awards season always seems to arrive with new stories about how piracy is affecting the film industry and the way we watch movies. Whether it’s a promotional screener that was […]
[Archived Post] Trusted Notifier Program Defended Against Misleading Rhetoric
One year ago, domain name registry Donuts, Inc. and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) entered into an agreement termed the Trusted Notifier Program in a joint effort to […]
[Archived Post] CPIP’s Sandra Aistars & Scalia Law Alumnae Urge Federal Circuit to Protect Creators and Rein In Fair Use in Oracle v. Google
On February 17, 2017, CPIP Senior Scholar Sandra Aistars filed an amicus brief in Oracle v. Google, a copyright case currently before the Federal Circuit. Prof. Aistars worked in conjunction […]
[Archived Post] Shaping Fair Use to Promote Fair Markets
By Bhamati Viswanathan How does fair use policy in copyright law affect markets for the production and distribution of creative works? As we come to the end of Fair Use […]
[Archived Post] Oracle v. Google: Expansive Fair Use Harms Creators
The following post comes from Rebecca Cusey, a third-year law student at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and a movie critic at The Federalist. By Rebecca Cusey The […]