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] 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] Second Circuit Deepens Red Flag Knowledge Circuit Split in Vimeo
By Devlin Hartline The Second Circuit’s recent opinion in Capitol Records v. Vimeo is, to put it mildly, pretty bad. From its convoluted reasoning that copyrights under state law for […]
[Archived Post] Capitol Records v. Vimeo: Courts Should Stop Coddling Bad Actors in Copyright Cases
Here’s a brief excerpt of my new post that was published on IPWatchdog: Here’s where we are after Capitol Records v. Vimeo: A service provider can encourage its users to […]