Prof Goldman: “Search Engine ‘Cache’ Function Covered by Implied License – Parker v Yahoo“:
This lawsuit squarely revisits the ground covered in the Field v. Google case, which Google won for 5 different reasons–including that anyone who posts content to the web knowing that search engines display cached copies impliedly licenses the search
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IP Colloquium:
“. . . an online audio program devoted to IP topics. We aspire to be something like an NPR show., but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed at a legal audience. Our programs are neither lectures nor debates. They are conversations, ideally thoughtful ones, with guests drawn from academia, the entertainment…
Chicago Tribune: “Bill Kurtis family’s ‘Little House’ museum sued in trademark case”
JoeThePlumber.com
JoeLaraThePlumber.com
JoeThePlumberSeattle.comhttp://www.joetheplumberseattle.com/
and let’s not forget <a href="“>the White House Plumbers.
. . . and Josephine the Plumber.
Out-Law.com: “Google to appeal thumbnail copyright defeats in Germany“:
Google has lost two German court cases over copyright in images displayed as thumbnails in search results. German courts ruled in both cases that Google’s display of miniature versions of pictures without permission infringed copyright in the originals.
The search giant will lodge one
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McCain campaign letter to YouTube re Copyright Fair Use and DMCA.
Prof Lessig commentary.
UPDATE: NewTeeVee commentary.
EFF Commentary.
and 43(b)log:
if the campaign is really serious about its First Amendment rights to use footage and other people’s songs, then it should do what the EFF and Stanford’s Fair Use Project
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WSJ: Bush Signs Anti-Piracy Bill
President Bush on Monday signed a bill aiming to beef up U.S. enforcement efforts to stop the sale of pirated or counterfeited movies, music, drugs and software.
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The measure creates a high-level administration coordinator charged with protecting the nation’s intellectual property. Originally, that coordinator was housed at
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