Filed comments with the FCC in its proceeding “Examination of the Future of Media and Information Needs of Communities in a Digital Age.” The comments stated: “As the Commission assesses proposals to ensure the future of media in this proceeding, we urge that it keep firmly in mind the following 45 words:” This cautionary [...]
Peter S. Menell, Professor of Law and Director Berkeley Center for Law and Technology University of California at Berkeley School of Law May 5, 2010 Mark Twain’s popularization of Benjamin Disraeli’s oft-quoted quip – “[t]here are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” – has taken on new relevance in the latest round [...]
FOR RELEASE: May 4, 2010 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., May 4, 2010 – If the Federal Communications Commission succeeds in reclassifying broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act, it could reduce the level of First Amendment protection for those providers. And the FCC’s [...]
Dean Rodney A. Smolla, Washington and Lee University School of Law April 29, 2010 The academic freedom rights of university professors are usually discussed in the vocabulary of the First Amendment. Professors at public universities have freedom of speech rights derived from the First Amendment that they may assert against their university employers. Professors at [...]
Prof. Doug Lichtman, UCLA School of Law April 26, 2010 Copyright law’s first sale doctrine is part of our everyday experience. College students, for example, routinely purchase textbooks or study aids, use them for a semester, and then sell them to other students who might be taking the same class the following term. Regular consumers [...]
Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia University School of Law* April 14, 2010 My two prior contributions to IP Issues (Feb. 26, 2010, and Dec. 8, 2009) have not exhausted the questions the 1976 Act termination right raises. The Copyright Office recently issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking comments on a possible “gap” in the 1976 [...]
Prof. Randal C. Picker, The University of Chicago Law School April 5, 2010 The iPad arrived on Saturday. Not mine, unfortunately, as I want to see it live and in person before buying, but the iPad itself. I am not enough of a fanboy to have rushed out to see one immediately, though I confess [...]
FOR RELEASE: April 1, 2010 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., April 1, 2010 – Noted Washington attorneys Lee Levine and Cliff Sloan have joined The Media Institute’s First Amendment Advisory Council, it was announced today by Patrick D. Maines, president of the Institute. Lee Levine is a founding partner [...]
by Prof. Justin Hughes, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University March 25, 2010 A constitutional, but really badly named legal doctrine In her contributions to this series, Professor Jane Ginsburg has explored the termination-of-transfer provisions in American copyright law. The author’s power to reclaim her copyright 35 years after she agreed to its transfer is [...]
Prof. Justin Hughes, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University March 25, 2010 A constitutional, but really badly named legal doctrine In her contributions to this series, Professor Jane Ginsburg has explored the termination-of-transfer provisions in American copyright law. The author’s power to reclaim her copyright 35 years after she agreed to its transfer is an [...]