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• 8 Great Video Games to Bring Us to the Next Level April 14, 2021
  By Justin Sanders There are flickers of light at the end of our long, dark pandemic tunnel – but, for now, we are still stumbling through it, groping for purchase as we try to find our way out. Fortunately, there are moments of illumination along this journey, blazing moments of creative inspiration that give us... […]
• Dear Diary… A Personal Odyssey Through Facebook’s Political Ad Meltdown April 7, 2021
  February 10, 2021 Dear Diary, Well, we’re having another bad Facebook day. They won’t let us run our “promoted post” ads again. We’ve had problems before, but for the last few months they’ve mostly sailed through. But our boost this week got rejected – they sent us the dreaded “This violates our temporary ban on... […]
• ‘Opening a Vein’ with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Doug Wright March 30, 2021
  “To act, someone needs to give you a great role. To direct, you need a great play. To design, you need a production. But to write, all you need is an idea and a pen and some blank paper and you can command your own future.” It’s as stirring a testament to the noble pursuit... […]

Stephen Carlisle

• The Supreme Court Opinion in Google v. Oracle: The Fair Use Mess? Still a Mess April 8, 2021
  The copyright “case of the century” is now over. You would hope that after two trips to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and now the Supreme Court of the United States we would have a much clearer picture of what is fair use and what is not. Unfortunately, that is not the […]
• Dr. Seuss and the Right to “Unpublish” March 18, 2021
  The decision of Dr. Seuss Enterprises to no longer publish six books of the renowned children’s author created quite the controversy. But more bizarrely, this event caused the anti-copyright crowd to leap into action. They again suggested that DSE should not be allowed to “unpublish” the works, again pushing for the proposition that such a […]
• The Copyright Small Claims Court Is Coming! Except It’s Not Really A Court… February 4, 2021
  The long considered, and long stymied, copyright small claims bill known as the CASE Act finally passed Congress on December 21, 2020. Since it was included in a “must pass” spending bill, it now has the signature of the President and is enacted into law. But is it really a Court? What, and how can […]

Hugh Stephens Blog

• The 2021 Global IP Index Report: Implications for Copyright April 19, 2021
  The US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) has just published its 9th annual report assessing and ranking the intellectual property (IP) policies of 53 countries worldwide against a set of performance indicators, 50 in all. IP policies and practices are evaluated in nine categories, covering patents, copyrights, trademarks, design rights, trade secrets, […]
• Caillou: Did the Little Boy’s Bad Temper Spill Over to the Copyright Squabble between his two “Mothers”? April 13, 2021
  Early this year PBS announced that it would cease to carry the Canadian animated children’s TV show “Caillou” (which means “pebbles” in French) after twenty years on the network. Since Caillou is a series not without controversy, some parents no doubt breathed a sigh of relief while others pondered their electronic babysitting options. To those […]
• NFTs and Copyright April 5, 2021
  Credit: author The English language is constantly being transformed by the addition of new words, meanings, terms and acronyms. It is hard to keep up sometimes. The latest to crowd into my consciousness is “NFT”. While the expression NFW (you can look it up and no, it doesn’t stand for Nashville Flower Week) is quite […]

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Content Café – Australia

• Grammy-winner Maria Schneider files copyright piracy lawsuit against YouTube April 13, 2021
  US singer and composer Maria Schneider has filed a class action lawsuit against YouTube, Google and parent company Alphabet, alleging YouTube screens copyrighted works that infringe on composers’ rights as […]
• Russia extends anti-piracy laws February 22, 2021
  In Russia, the Memorandum of Cooperation between rights holders and search operators has been extended to August 1 after it was due to expire in January 2021. The regulation requires […]
• New report finds people are unaware of the hidden dangers of piracy February 8, 2021
  New research by FACT, which investigates cybercrime, theft and IP crime, has found that 62% of people in the UK are unaware of the hidden dangers of piracy, such as […]