Copyright Issues on the Legislative Agenda for 2012-2013
Though they are unlikely to take center stage during the truncated session before elections or the post-election lame duck session, lawmakers will have to contend with several key copyright issues...
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The system laid out in these three interrelated patent applications would create an entire secondhand market for digital content like eBooks, music files and other software by managing access rights...
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Samsung has received dozens of patents for truly unique technologies, such as one patent protecting better walking and balancing controls for two-legged humanoid robots. Other patents recently issued...
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We found another pair of patents related to digital worlds, an area where IBM has been active of late. A system for ensuring that the highest number of objects contained within a three-dimensional...
View Article2d Cir. affirms S.D.N.Y. decision in Barnes & Noble copyright case,...
In early October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) handed down a decision, which almost answered important questions about how cloud-based access to content can affect...
View ArticleState Compulsory eBook and Audiobook Licensing Is Wrong on Law and Policy
The ability of copyright owners to experiment with different marketing strategies is fundamental to copyright law. Indeed, the U.S. Copyright Act promotes the public good by granting exclusive rights...
View ArticlePublishers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Maryland Law that Requires...
Publishers scored a win yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland when the court granted their request for a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Maryland Act,...
View ArticleCopyright Issues on the Legislative Agenda for 2012-2013
Though they are unlikely to take center stage during the truncated session before elections or the post-election lame duck session, lawmakers will have to contend with several key copyright issues...
View ArticleAuthors Challenged by Shifting Industry Business Models
The new reality is that content creators are getting squeezed all around. Increasingly many want things to be free and don't care whether they copy a public domain work or whether it is something that...
View ArticleApple Patent Apps Include 3 For Digital Rights Management
The system laid out in these three interrelated patent applications would create an entire secondhand market for digital content like eBooks, music files and other software by managing access rights...
View ArticleSamsung Patents Walking Improvements for Bipedal Robot
Samsung has received dozens of patents for truly unique technologies, such as one patent protecting better walking and balancing controls for two-legged humanoid robots. Other patents recently issued...
View ArticleIBM patents continues push into virtual worlds, eBooks and more
We found another pair of patents related to digital worlds, an area where IBM has been active of late. A system for ensuring that the highest number of objects contained within a three-dimensional...
View Article2d Cir. affirms S.D.N.Y. decision in Barnes & Noble copyright case,...
In early October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2d Cir.) handed down a decision, which almost answered important questions about how cloud-based access to content can affect...
View ArticleState Compulsory eBook and Audiobook Licensing Is Wrong on Law and Policy
The ability of copyright owners to experiment with different marketing strategies is fundamental to copyright law. Indeed, the U.S. Copyright Act promotes the public good by granting exclusive rights...
View ArticlePublishers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Maryland Law that Requires...
Publishers scored a win yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland when the court granted their request for a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Maryland Act,...
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In June 2020, a few months into the pandemic, a group of four large publishing houses—Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House (collectively, the...
View ArticleCopyright Issues on the Legislative Agenda for 2012-2013
Though they are unlikely to take center stage during the truncated session before elections or the post-election lame duck session, lawmakers will have to contend with several key copyright issues...
View ArticleAuthors Challenged by Shifting Industry Business Models
The new reality is that content creators are getting squeezed all around. Increasingly many want things to be free and don't care whether they copy a public domain work or whether it is something that...
View ArticleApple Patent Apps Include 3 For Digital Rights Management
The system laid out in these three interrelated patent applications would create an entire secondhand market for digital content like eBooks, music files and other software by managing access rights...
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