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Can a “batty” ruling effect needed change?

On July 7, 2009 By

It is thoroughly unbelievable news that US District Court Judge Deborah Batts has issued a permanent injunction against the US publication of a book that purports to update the story of Holden Caufield, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.”  The new book, written by Swedish author Fredrik Colting and already [...]

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New (and not so new) resources

On June 2, 2009 By

I am delighted to be able to link to a whole new group of resource for understanding and teaching others about copyright law and user rights.  Since most of these resources are video, they offer a nice supplement to the text resources I have listed here and here.

First, because it is the [...]

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Big victory for the public domain

On April 6, 2009 By

Sometimes big victories can happen even in small forums. On Friday a district court in Colorado — the lowest level of court in our federal system — issued a decision with big time implications.  I have written several times before about the interaction of copyright law and the First Amendment protection of free speech, and [...]

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UCG and you

On February 1, 2009 By

A really superb article has just been released in the American Bar Association Journal called “Copyright in the Age of YouTube.”  Starting from the story of the dancing baby, whose 30-second home movie was the subject of a DMCA takedown notice for allegedly infringing copyright (a story I have written about before), this [...]

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