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] 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] Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) Unites to Fight Online Piracy
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] Explaining Efficient Infringement
By Adam Mossoff & Bhamati Viswanathan In a recent New York Times op-ed, “The Patent Troll Smokescreen,” Joe Nocera used in print for the first time the term, “efficient infringement.” […]
[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] 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 […]
[Archived Post] European Union Draws a Line on Infringing Hyperlinks
Cross-posted from the Mister Copyright blog. Last week, the European Court of Justice—the judicial authority of the European Union—issued an anticipated decision in the Sanoma hyperlinking case, declaring that commercial linking with […]
[Archived Post] Despite What You Hear, Notice and Takedown is Failing Creators and Copyright Owners
By Kevin Madigan In a recent op-ed in the LA Times, Professors Chris Sprigman and Mark Lemley praise the notice and takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) […]
[Archived Post] Letter on FCC Set-Top Box Regulation Once Again Confuses the Issue
By Kevin Madigan Last week, a group of law professors wrote a letter to the acting Librarian of Congress in which they claim that the current FCC proposal to regulate […]
[Archived Post] The Dangerous Combination of Content Theft and Malware
Cross-posted from the Mister Copyright blog. Malware, short for malicious software, has been used to infiltrate and contaminate computers since the early 1980s. But what began as relatively benign software […]