The following post comes from Liz Velander, a recent graduate of Scalia Law and a Research Assistant at CPIP. By Liz Velander In late September, the House Judiciary Committee held […]
[Archived Post] Copyright Notebook: The Importance of Artists’ Agency
I am looking forward to hosting a keynote conversation with Grammy-winning composer, performer, songwriter, best-selling author, and essayist Rosanne Cash this week at CPIP’s The Evolving Music Ecosystem conference. One […]
[Archived Post] Scalia Law Students and CPIP Scholars Make an Impact in Copyright Office Section 512 Study
The U.S. Copyright Office released its long-awaited report on Section 512 of Title 17 late last week. The Report is the culmination of more than four years of study by […]
[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] 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] 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] 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] Three Years Later, DMCA Still Just as Broken
By Matthew Barblan & Kevin Madigan In 2013, CPIP published a policy brief by Professor Bruce Boyden exposing the DMCA notice and takedown system as outdated and in need of […]
[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 […]