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Google+The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad
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Have "Real-Time" Services Altered the Balance of the DMCA?
Image via Wikipedia The DMCA has a bad reputation with those who prefer to see greater freedom of information flow. Its anti-circumvention provisions provisions have attracted particular antipathy, and many believe the DMCA takedown provisions are regularly abused. The point … Continued
IP and Traditional Knowledge
Image via Wikipedia The Uneasy Case for Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge by Stephen Munzer, Kal Raustiala: Should traditional knowledge—the understanding or skill possessed by indigenous peoples pertaining to their culture and folklore and their use of native plants … Continued
An Evidence-Based Approach to Law and Science
John Pfaff has been writing a series of articles for PrawfsBlawg over the last month or so, focusing on “Empirical Legal Scholarship” (ELS). ELS brings empirical social science research, including especially statistical studies, into the realm of the law. (Law … Continued
Copyright as Antidote to DRM
Image via Wikipedia Consider this idea: without copyright protection for digital media, we would have even more Digital Rights Management. Why? Because without it, recouping up-front investment without restricting distribution would be difficult or impossible. Since I often see a … Continued
Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing
‘ Image via Wikipedia Patent Baristas » Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing: Indias pharmaceutical industry caters to about 30% of the world’s generic requirements. Despite its tremendous volume, it has been facing difficult times recently, with the WHO stance on … Continued
Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Keywords
Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Keywords – Law Blog – WSJ: In an opinion penned by Judge Pierre Leval, a three-judge panel ruled that Google must face a trademark infringement lawsuit for selling keywords that … Continued
SSRN Papers Dealing with IP, Development and Innovation
Image via Wikipedia The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good by Dennis Crouch Lotteries are immensely popular. Players are willing to give the organizer a large monetary cut of every ticket purchase in return for a chance … Continued
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book by by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two economists who have proposed abolishing copyrights and patents: It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for … Continued
Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy
Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy: Two economists from Washington University have looked at current copyright and patent laws and concluded that they’re not good. The pair see current intellectual property laws as similar to “medieval trade … Continued
That Was the Copyright Year That Was (2008)
Image via Wikipedia That Was the Copyright Year That Was by Bruce E. Boyden of Marquette University Law School: I recently compiled a list of the biggest developments in copyright law in 2008, based on a not very systematic survey. … Continued
Freeing America's Operating System
Creative Commons – Freeing America’s Operating System: Last November Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org announced an initiative to free 1.8 million pages of U.S. case law, publishing them online with no restrictions on reuse. Today the results of this initiative are available … Continued
Should we fight the proprietary open source power?
Open Source | ZDNet.com – Should we fight the proprietary open source power?: Mr. Buzzword for February appears to be proprietary open source. This is an open source project which is owned or controlled by one company. Even though it … Continued
Useful Introductions to Theory
The “Introductory Guide to Critical Theory” (which I extract from and link to below, along with other useful reference sites) provides an excellent basic introduction to some of the main points of contemporary critical theory (which I encountered as part … Continued
Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?
Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere? by Margaret A. Schilt in Legal Times: If you are looking for the future of legal scholarship, chances are that you may find it not in a treatise or the traditional … Continued
Freedom of Speech in the United States
An excellent library of court decisions related to free speech in the United States, compiled as part of a book, Freedom Of Speech In The United States, by Dale A. Herbeck and Thomas L. Tedford. Covers historical development in England, … Continued
