Last week, bills to create a new, small-claim copyright process were introduced in both the House and Senate. Generally referred to by the House name the CASE Act, the proposed changes to Title 17 will establish a Copyright Claims Board (CCB) at the U.S. Copyright Office with the purpose of offering rights holders a path to remedy infringements without the ...
Visual artists should be very relieved by last week’s decision at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, overturning the District Court’s finding of fair use in Brammer v. Violent Hues. Frankly, fair use advocates should be happy about the ruling, too, because nobody who sincerely cares about copyright should celebrate an error of law. If a court simply disregards the ...
The theme of year’s World IP Day celebration is sports. And although I’ve never been what you might call a major sports fan, it does occur to me that the business of athletics is about as IP-rich and environment as one might imagine. Covering all the bases, as it were, the world of professional sports is steeped in every kind ...
Remember when it was considered axiomatic to call the internet is the greatest gift to democracy in history? Not so much … ...
I recently attended a round-table discussion on the subject of artificial intelligence and copyright. The first of several engaging topics I thought warranted a post was the question of “machine learning,” which I put in quotes here with respect to one scholar who admonished against anthropomorphizing AI by using words for human activities to describe the actions of computers. I ...
