By Michael Doane The CEO of a small technology-based company with many groundbreaking patents in its field once asked me what the point was of obtaining patents when the company […]
[Archived Post] Ninth Circuit Narrows Copyright Owner’s Ability to Receive Multiple Statutory Damages Awards
The following post comes from Liz Velander, a recent graduate of Scalia Law and a Research Assistant at CPIP. By Liz Velander A recent Ninth Circuit ruling limits the amount […]
[Archived Post] Publishers v. Audible: An Army of Red Herrings
Audible has now filed its response to the publishers’ request for a preliminary injunction—twice. It filed the exact same brief to argue that it shouldn’t be preliminarily enjoined (Dkt. 34) […]
[Archived Post] Publishers v. Audible: VCRs and DVRs to the Rescue?
On August 23, a group of publishers, including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster, sued Audible for copyright infringement. Audible, which is a subsidiary of Amazon, sells and […]
[Archived Post] Twenty Years Later, DMCA More Broken Than Ever
With Section 512 of the DMCA, Congress sought to “preserve[] strong incentives for service providers and copyright owners to cooperate to detect and deal with copyright infringements that take place […]
[Archived Post] How the Supreme Court Made it Harder for Copyright Owners to Protect Their Rights—And Why Congress Should Fix It
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com, a case examining the registration precondition to filing a suit for copyright infringement in the […]
[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] CPIP Founders File Amicus Brief on Behalf of 11 Law Professors in Converse v. ITC
By Devlin Hartline CPIP Founders Adam Mossoff & Mark Schultz filed an amicus brief today on behalf of 11 law professors in Converse v. International Trade Commission, a trademark case […]
[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 […]