Prof. James Gibson, University of Richmond School of Law August 20, 2013 What role does Big Media play in the courtroom? Major media companies are often portrayed as aggressive drivers of expansive copyright, dominating every aspect of the legal landscape. When it comes to litigation, however, the truth is more nuanced. My colleague Chris Cotropia [...]
Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia University School of Law August 13, 2013 It’s the summer opera festival season, and I’m writing this column from the Glimmerglass Festival (the other major attraction of Cooperstown, N.Y.), so I thought a contribution on opera and copyright would be fun and topical. It turns out that operas set the [...]
Prof. Justin Hughes,* Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University August 5, 2013 On June 28, 2013, a new, quite extraordinary multilateral intellectual property treaty came into existence. The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for the Blind – the treaty’s full title is even longer – is the world’s only IP treaty dedicated [...]
Prof. Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago Law School July 29, 2013 If you aren’t watching carefully, you are missing the ongoing skirmishes in the advertising tech wars. There is an important privacy front there, but today I want to focus on a different question, namely whether an advertiser can have any confidence that its [...]
FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn To Deliver Keynote Remarks at Oct. 22 Event FOR RELEASE: July 26, 2013 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., July 26, 2013 – The Media Institute will bestow awards on National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Gordon Smith and AMC Networks President and CEO Josh [...]
Prof. Robert P. Merges, University of California at Berkeley School of Law July 22, 2013 Talk of trolls and patent reform is in the air. Many speak of a crisis, a sense that the center of the patent system is not holding. Reforms span a wide spectrum: While the Supreme Court reins in what it [...]
Prof. Doug Lichtman, UCLA School of Law July 9, 2013 It is almost impossible for a judge or jury to accurately determine the amount of money that a patent holder should be paid to compensate for past patent infringement. To run the math right, that determination requires a rich understanding of the technology at issue; [...]
Prof. Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago Law School June 25, 2013 I am delighted to be teaching Copyright again next year after not doing so for three years and so I find my mind drawn each day to topics for the class. The first day of class is very much a day for fundamentals [...]
Filed an amicus brief, with The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, before the U.S. Supreme Court in Hunter v. Virginia State Bar. The brief supports a petition for a writ of certiorari. The case, involving an attorney's blog that may contain both [...]
Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia University School of Law June 18, 2013 In an earlier column, I addressed a recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) bearing on the place of “making available” protected content over the Internet. The CJEU determined that, for purposes of personal jurisdiction over a foreign [...]