Posts Tagged: copyrights

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte R-VA will keep copyright high on the Judiciary Committee s agenda in the th Congress Given that Chairman Goodlatte has already held nearly twenty hearings as part of his copyright review it is…

O ne production company has decided to take this battle to the courts in the hopes of overturning what it feels are misappropriated copyright protections The evidenced entered into the case by Good Morning To You Productions dates back…

Stealing originally created content is extremely problematic whether it is a blog article a newspaper article a book painting photograph or movie If you search the Internet for practically anything you will be inundated with the same text over…

Generally speaking intellectual property is probably best thought of at least form a conceptual standpoint as creations of the mind that are given the legal rights often associated with real or personal property The rights that are obtained by…

Using an all too familiar logical construct the Supreme Court determined that what Aereo did was not a public performance within the meaning of the Copyright Act but was still infringement because it was a public performance This construct…

The purpose of the roundtables is to engage further with members of the public on the following issues the legal framework for the creation of remixes the relevance and scope of the first sale doctrine in the digital environment…

The goal of the multistakeholder forum is to identify best practices and or produce voluntary agreements for improving the operation of the DMCA notice and takedown system The IPTF plans to hold several additional meetings throughout the year The…

The Court will hear oral argument as follows on February in two cases on granting Octane Fitness and reviewing Highmark attorneys fee awards on March in a case Alice Corp on patent eligibility of system and computer-implemented method claims…

The meeting will now be held on December from a m to p m ET at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria VA and the period for post-meeting comments has been extended The deadline for filing pre-meeting comments is November…

The meeting will be held on October in Washington D C The IPTF intends to hold the public meeting in the Amphitheatre of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center Pennsylvania Avenue N W Washington D C The…

As of the writing of this article the USPTO website remains up and appears to be fully functional So if the USPTO can keep its website full of publicly available free information up during a government shutdown why did…

WASHINGTON The U S Department of Commerce today released a green paper on Copyright Policy Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Economy Green Paper to advance discussion on a set of policy issues critical to economic growth The Green…