By Bhamati Viswanathan Free expression in China has long been a fraught concern for the entertainment industry. Last year, Chinese regulators forbade local companies from working on foreign films that […]
[Archived Post] SONA and Songwriters Fight DOJ’s Misguided 100% Licensing Rule
By Devlin Hartline Things are heating up in the lawsuit filed by Songwriters of North America and three of its members (SONA) challenging the new gloss of the Department of […]
[Archived Post] IP Scholars Explain Why We Shouldn’t Use SurveyMonkey to Select Our Next Register of Copyrights
By Kevin Madigan In a letter submitted to House Judiciary Committee today, nine IP scholars (organized by CPIP’s Sandra Aistars) express their support for the Committee’s proposal to modernize the […]
[Archived Post] Librarians’ Contradictory Letter Reveals an Alarming Ignorance of the Copyright System
By Kevin Madigan On December 14th, a group of librarians sent a letter to Congress explaining why they believe the Copyright Office should remain under the control of the Library […]
[Archived Post] Digital Single Market Must Protect the Rights of All Authors and Publishers
Cross-posted from the Mister Copyright blog. In 2015, the European Commission unveiled a plan to “create a free and secure digital single market” that would expand and standardize the EU’s digital […]
[Archived Post] Content Thief Turned Content Creator Rails Against Piracy
Cross-posted from the Mister Copyright blog. Last week, YouTube celebrity (yes, that’s a thing now) Olajide “JJ” Olatunji posted an expletive-filled tirade aimed at those illegally downloading his new movie “Laid […]
[Archived Post] Second Circuit Brings Some Sanity Back to Transformative Fair Use
By Devlin Hartline The Second Circuit handed down an opinion in TCA Television v. McCollum earlier this week holding that a play’s inclusion of Abbott and Costello’s famous “Who’s on […]
[Archived Post] WALA and Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic Hosting Copyright Clinic and Panel
Scalia Law’s Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA) are hosting a Copyright Clinic and Panel on the evening of Tuesday, November 1st, 2016, […]
[Archived Post] Professors Mislead FCC on Basic Copyright Law
By Devlin Hartline In a letter submitted to the FCC late last week defending the Commission’s deeply flawed set-top box proposal,[1] a group of professors make an incredible claim: Everyone […]
[Archived Post] Criminal Copyright Infringement is Crime of “Moral Turpitude”
Cross-posted from the Law Theories blog. This past Friday, the Board of Immigration Appeals held that criminal copyright infringement constitutes a “crime involving moral turpitude” under immigration law. The Board […]