Australian IT: “Websites win right to show Games clips“:
INTERNET sites in Australia will be allowed to show short video clips of Olympic events for the first time during the Beijing Games, following a historic agreement announced yesterday between the Seven Network and the International Olympic Committee.
Law.com: An Operating System for Law: Online Cases:
Carl Malamud has been bothered for 25 years by the fact that U.S. case law is locked away from the public’s eyes. As a wonkish graduate student at the Indiana University School of Business in the 1980s, he was forced on occasion to sneak into the
PCMAG: DomainNameWire reports about a message it received from the U.S. Copyright Registry, which is apparently located in Manhattan, which advises that:
You are required to advise the US Copyright Registry of your intent to license this website if registration is administered through the UCR as this is your final notice.
Note: you may
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. . . and the award goes to “Ricky Gervais Inspires Copyright Opinion” (Prof Patry).
TechCrunch: “Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay: $4 million For Crunchyroll”:
San Francisco based Crunchyroll, a sort of YouTube for anime and other mostly Asian video content, raised a $4 million round of financing led by Venrock Associates, with partner David Siminoff joining the board of directors.
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TechCrunch: GumGum Launches New Image Licensing Platform:
Prof Patry: No One Likes a Bully: The IIPA and Canada:
It is entirely proper for U.S. industries to protect their own interests. IIPA’s website, though, shoots for a loftier goal, that of helping to create “a legal and enforcement regime for copyright that not only deters piracy, but that also fosters technological and
Eames Office licenses the IP of Charles and Roy Eames. They created the Dot Pattern in 1949 and Eames Office published it as a fabric in 1999. The Pod Hotel obtained a swatch but did not purchase the licensed fabric. It instead allegedly purchased a ‘knock off’. The Eames pattern was used in promotional
ChristianPost.com: “Churches Wary of NFL Policy Sack Super Bowl Parties“:
After the National Football League gave warning last year to an Indianapolis church not to hold a Super Bowl viewing party, churches across the country are canceling their annual Super Bowl fellowships in fear of getting flagged for copyright violations.
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