Canadian colleges exerting independence in monitoring their own copyright compliance
Access Copyright is a collective which manages a pool of protected intellectual works, charging fees to Canadian colleges and universities and paying royalties to copyright holders. Access Copyright and the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada reached an agreement in April 2012 that requires institutions to pay a per-student fee $26 a year, a substantial [...]
A recent federal ruling distinguished between digital and physical media when it comes to the first sale doctrine
James Kang writes in IP Law Alert that in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDiGi Inc., No. 12 Civ. 95 (S.D.N.Y. March 30, 2012), Judge Richard Sullivan declared that a file sent over the internet is not a simple transfer of the same “material object;” rather, it is a reproduction of the file, so the first [...]
When do IP rights in an original work that is supplemented by others no longer hold?
Donald Duvall, former chief administrative law judge for the International Trade Commission, while subsequently working for Kenyon & Kenyon, wrote a treatise on proceedings before the commission involving Section 3378 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Analysts have free access to a complete database of copyright infringement cases relating to music
Sponsored by Columbia Law School and the USC Gould School of Law, and resident at http://mcir.usc.edu/, the Music Copyright Infringement Resource offers complete summaries of every U.S. music copyright decision since 1845. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Apple’s clout showing itself in royalty rate negotiations with major music labels
CNET reports Apple is close to an internet music streaming deal. As this blog has suggested, Apple’s desire to get into the business has been slowed by the same royalty rate issues that plague Pandora and others in that space … the streaming margins are too small and the royalty rates are too high for [...]
Google wins a key copyright victory in Germany
German lawmakers in the lower house of parliament approved a copyright bill that would protect the Internet search giant from having to pay fees for displaying links to news articles. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
First sale doctrine upheld by U.S.S.C.
The first sale doctrine provides that once sold, a copy of a copyrighted work can be resold without the authorization of the copyright owner. Consumers can legally buy books, for example, without fear of copyright infringement. The doctrine applies only when the copyrighted work was “lawfully made under [the Copyright Act].” Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend [...]
Angry Birds to move across platforms as Rovio is changing the IP value paradigm for fictional characters
One of the guiding principles of Content Licensing, a membership periodical published by The Licensing Letter (EPM Communications), is that those executives charged with the task of growing their consumer brands in media need to break away from parochial tendencies and watch trends in all categories. Editor Paul Sweeting states: Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend [...]
Harlem Shake’s unexpected success has forced it to revisit permissions
A synthesizer-driven dance track, called “Harlem Shake,” has become viral hit on YouTube, now reportedly with 50,000 copycat videos. When a work of art hits unexpected success, expect some IP problems. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Do IP policies adopted by Congress benefit foreign corporations at the expense of U.S. consumers?
This is the question a paper released on www.inforjustice.org attempts to answer. Authors Jonathan Band and Jonathan Gerafi examined the ownership of firms in IP-intensive industries and discovered some key facts: Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
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