By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 1-12-16 President Obama stuck generally to the "vision thing" in his last State of the Union (SOTU) speech, talking about his vision of America as a strong, compassionate country that takes care of the poor, the environment, and its business at home and abroad. But he also worked [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 1-11-16 Former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell plans to tell Congress that a new bill meant to block the FCC from using Title II authority over ISPs to regulate broadband rates should explicitly extend to rates ISPs may charge to edge providers or other ISPs or backbone providers (interconnection). [...]
Dean Rodney A. Smolla, Delaware Law School, Widener University December 28, 2015 As I and other contributors to IP Viewpoints have written in numerous essays over the last year, two fascinating cases have been wending their way through the federal courts testing whether the federal government may deny or cancel trademark registration to racially or [...]
FOR RELEASE: December 2, 2015 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Washington, December 2, 2015 – Rebecca Hanson of the Sinclair Broadcast Group was elected to the Board of Trustees of The Media Institute at the board’s annual meeting today in Washington. Hanson is Senior Vice President, Strategy and Policy, for Sinclair. [...]
Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia University School of Law* November 24, 2015 In this time of prospective copyright reform, some have called for revising copyright law to make a showing of commercial harm an obligatory element of the plaintiff’s infringement case.1 The result: Even were an author’s work copied or communicated to the public, she [...]
Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia University School of Law* October 19, 2015 A for-profit corporation scans millions of in-copyright books and permanently stores their full contents in its database, all without seeking permission or paying the books’ authors or publishers. Over 10 years ago, when Google began its massive digitization and storage program, with the [...]
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte To Deliver Keynote Address FOR RELEASE: October 16, 2015 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., October 16, 2015 – The Media Institute will honor Peggy Noonan, best-selling author and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and Meredith Attwell Baker, president and CEO of CTIA–The Wireless [...]
Nationwide Event Heightens Awareness of Fundamental Freedom FOR RELEASE: October 15, 2015 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., October 15, 2015 – Free Speech Week (FSW) is slated to begin Monday, Oct. 19, and run through Sunday, Oct. 25. A wide range of schools, universities, community groups, and media organizations [...]
Prof. Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago Law School October 13, 2015 That is the clickbait headline for last week’s Ninth Circuit decision in Bikram’s Yoga College of India, L.P. v. Evolation Yoga, LLC. The issue in the case was whether a particular set of so-called hot yoga practices could be copyrighted. The Ninth Circuit [...]
Dean Rodney A. Smolla, Delaware Law School, Widener University September 23, 2015 I have written previously on two pending trademark disputes involving the denial or cancellation of trademark registration on the grounds that the marks are “disparaging.” The first was In re Tam,1 in which a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for [...]