Why SMART Isn’t Smart – Importing FRAND’s Flaws Into Copyright
This piece is cross-posted on Patent Progress. “Intellectual property,” as a term, is a problem. It groups together areas of […]
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OECD/EUIPO Study on “Dangerous Fakes” Is a Missed Opportunity
Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) released a controversial “Study […]
Justice Breyer’s Balanced Copyright Opinions
Update: On February 24, 2022, Justice Breyer wrote the opinion for the Court in Unicolors v. H&M in favor of the […]
TransUnion, Nicklin, and Preserving the Right to Embed
Recent decisions in the Southern District of New York have rejected the Ninth Circuit’s “server rule,” which authorizes web content […]
World IP Day: Promoting Progress
This is a cross-post from Patent Progress by Joshua Landau. Joshua Landau is the Patent Counsel at the Computer & […]
Supreme Court Demonstrates That Fair Use Promotes Creativity
In policy discussions, rightsholders often claim that the fair use right, 17 U.S.C. § 107, undermines the incentive to create […]
Five Observations About the Supreme Court’s Decision in Google v. Oracle
The software industry issued a collective sigh of relief after this week’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle finding […]
Google v. Oracle Supreme Court Fight Was Bigger Than the Litigants
Today the Supreme Court decided the long-running Google v. Oracle copyright case, which began more than a decade ago. Supreme […]
Draft Singapore Copyright Bill Proposes Significant Innovations
Singapore’s Ministry of Law and Intellectual Property Office have released a draft of a Copyright Bill that will repeal and […]
A Mixed Bag of Copyright Provisions in Omnibus Spending Bill
The omnibus spending bill just passed by Congress contains two provisions relating to copyright law—one largely unobjectionable, the other highly […]
