On April 24th at 6:30 PM in the Moot Court Room at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, The Cardozo Intellectual Property Society Presents
“Viacom vs. GooTube: Solving the User-Generated Gridlock”
1.0 CLE credit Available in Areas of Professional Practice
To RSVP, respond to: youtubepanel at gmail dot com
Featuring:
Stanley Pierre-Louis, Esq.
Kaye Scholer,
NFL v. Law Professor con’t
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Bruce Lehman: “Our Attempts At Copyright Control Have Not Been Successful”
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MichaelGeist.ca: “DMCA Architect Acknowledges Need For A New Approach“: (Former head of the Patent and Trademark Office, Bruce Lehman, influential in the creation of the DMCA, during a panel conference (available on video):
“. . . Lehman says that we are entering the “post-copyright” era for music, suggesting that a new…
NFL Copyright Warning Put Back On YouTube
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Wendy Seltzer recovers from her first DMCA takedown and get her video of NFL’s copyright warning put back up on YouTube.
Accused Plagiarist Uses DMCA To Remove Video Accusing Him Of Plagiarism
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This is only the second time I’ve used the word ‘chutzpah’ in 5 years of blogging, but, if the facts are as they appear, the use is justified.
Voicing an apparently widespread belief, comic Joe Rogan accused Carlos Mencia of stealing jokes. Rogan showed up at Mencia’s act at the Comedy Store, and films a…
NFL Claims Copyright In Copyright Warning?
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Wendy Seltzer: “My First DMCA Takedown“:
“On Feb. 8, I posted to YouTube a clip taken from the Super Bowl: not the football, but the copyright warning the NFL stuck into the middle of it, wherein they tell you it’s forbidden even to share “accounts of the game” without the NFL’s consent.
Their…
Discussion of Pre-Loaded IPods
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As the price of digital-playback devices (i.e. iPods) plumment, we may see more and more ‘pre-loaded’ offerings. Here a discussion of Load ‘N Go, a company that pre-loads iPods with video content (and bundles the related DVD). However the question arises whether it is cricumventing DRM sfotware to do so. Via IP Due Diligence…
Lawgarithms On UMG v. MySpace
Lawgarithms (aka Denise Howell): UMG sues MySpace in a no-lose proposition, draws Grokster judge.”
All Daily Show, Colbert and South Park Clips Off YouTube
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Gaming VERO and the DMCA?
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This seems like a paradigmatic lawsuit for IP on the Internet.
Plaintiff creates a guide relating to Defendant’s product, which product is protected by TM and Copyright. Plaintiff sells the guide on eBay. Defendant notifies eBay that Plaintiff’s product infringes, and requests termination of eBay auctions, pursuant to its VERO program. Plaintiff submits multiple…