The European Union Wants to Control the Internet—and You
How a risk-averse bureaucracy across the ocean may decide what you say and do online.
Copyright
E.U. Passes Censorship-Inducing Online Copyright Regulations
Online platforms will be subjected to a costly, easily-abused system that will likely pull down legal content.
Creativity and Copyright in the Data Age
Does the rise of data-driven authorship change our intuitions about intellectual property? Does it matter?
Copyright and (Un)Human Creativity
What does the rise of data-driven authorship mean for the future of art, culture, and intellectual property rights?
Intellectual Property, Big Data, and Streaming: Porn and Beyond
Profs. Kal Raustiala & Chris Sprigman will be guest-blogging about this week, based on their new law review article.
Pepe the Frog Meets the Copyright Cops
When alt-right activists adopted this amphibian as their own, were they stealing a cartoonist's property or exercising free speech?
Copyright Infringement of 'Sexier' Statue of Liberty Costs Postal Service $3.5 Million
The Post Office must pay $3.5 million for using a "fresh-faced," "sexier" Statue of Liberty replica on a stamp.
Europe Delays Plan to Destroy the Internet With Terrible Copyright Enforcement Proposal
Lawmakers resist plan that would likely lead to widespread censorship of online media sharing.
Forget Net Neutrality: The E.U. Seems Determined to Destroy the Internet
A poorly written proposal to expand copyright claims could potentially decimate online sharing of information.
Do You Have a Right To Repair Your Phone? The Fight Between Big Tech and Consumers
Meet Eric Lundgren, who got 15 months in prison for selling pirated Microsoft software that the tech giant gives away for free.
Taylor Swift Decision: Copiers Gonna Copy, Copy, Copy
And that's not copyright infringement, if they only copy short phrases, especially ones that were themselves largely copied from others.
Playboy Sues Boing Boing Over Link to Playboy Centerfolds
Boing Boing has filed a motion to dismiss.
The Public Domain is So Hungry
At the close of this year, for the first time since 1997, copyrighted works will fall into the public domain, free for all to use.
Lack of Net Neutrality Can't Stop the FCC's 'Harlem Shake' Video, But Copyright Law Might!
Onerous IP laws threaten a free and open internet in a way deregulation never can.
Who Owns Pepe the Frog? The Alt-Right vs. Cartoonist Matt Furie
A legal fight involving the alt-right, Trump voters, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful law firms, and the website 4chan is brewing.
Canada Claims Authority to Censor Your Internet Searches
Not Canadian? Not in Canada? It doesn't matter, according to its supreme court.
Official Law of Georgia Is Copyrighted, and the State Enforces That Copyright
An open-records activist sent a copy of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated to prominent Georgia politicians and lawyers and got a copyright lawsuit.
Liberty-Loving Pirates Look to Conquer Iceland!
Peacefully, at the polls-not with swords and cannons and Johnny Depp.
Samsung Tries to Use DMCA to Take Down GTA V Mod with Exploding Note 7
Copyright claims as censorship.
Copyright Case Against 'Stairway to Heaven' Goes Down Like a Lead Zeppelin
The jury reached the right decision.
Google Wins in Oracle Copyright Lawsuit Over Android Development
Jury finds use of Java API was covered by fair use
Department of Homeland Security
DHS's 2014 Panty Raid Was Concocted by an "Eager" Federal Prosecutor
Homeland Security was defined-down even further in the form of a raid on a Kansas City lingerie shop over possible copyright infringement.
'Blue-Eyed Soul' Singer Daryl Hall To Critics of Cultural Appropriation: 'STFU'
Goes rougher on record company execs and the music industry more generally.
Paramount Objects to Klingon Language Amicus Brief by Language Creation Society
It doesn't want to deal with the Klingon language copyrightability issue.
Paramount Copyright Claim on Klingon Language Challenged in Klingon Language
Paramount's arguments lack reason, or "meq Hutlh."
How Copycat Cronuts Keep Chefs Sharp
Ripoffs and remixes in the food industry drive talented creators to new heights.
Klingon Language, Pointy Ears, 'Mood and Theme' of Star Trek All Copyrighted, Paramount Claims
To boldly go where IP law has gone before.
Stealing Music Was the Late '90s Version of Drug Experimentation in the '60s
How Music Got Free author Stephen Witt on the creation of the MP3 and the death of the music industry
Pray That The New York Times Loses This Stupid Copyright Case
Gray Lady tries to clamp down on fair use of images in a way that might end up loosening standards.
There's Just One Known Recording of the First Super Bowl Broadcast, and the NFL Wants to Keep a Man From Selling It
A tale of football, lawyers, and videotape
Bernie Sanders Campaign Demands Wikipedia Take Down Images of Its Campaign Logos
Internet encylopedia felt the bern.
How South Park Saved Fair Use
'What, What (in the Butt)' set legal precedent protecting free speech rights.
Google Offers to Defend Against Some Bad YouTube Takedown Demands
Attempting to protect fair use from copyright claim abuse
'The Court Has Listened to Hip Hop for Decades'
Federal judge uses his Drake and Eminem fandom to dispute copyright infringement claim.
Copyright Expert Pans Plagiarism Suit Against Taylor Swift
Swift is accused of ripping-off the lyrics to her hit song "Shake It Off," but lawyer Mike Godwin says the case is "almost certainly meritless."
On Soundcloud: How Should Libertarians Think About Intellectual Property?
Listen now as thinkers from Cato, Mercatus, FreedomWorks, and R Street talk about copyright, patents, history, and cronyism.
How Should Libertarians Think About Intellectual Property?
Brink Lindsey, Sasha Moss, Wayne Brough, Eli Dourado, and Nick Gillespie talk patents and copyrights in the digital age.
Google Books' Scanning of Copyrighted Work Indeed Legal, Appeals Court Confirms
Likely outcome: better for scholars, readers, writers, even publishers.
What's in the Trans-Pacific Partnership? New Zealand Gives Us a Glimpse.
Good news on tariffs, bad news on copyrights
I Quote This Excellent Essay on Copyright Abuse & Refuse to Pay a Single Dime to Mick Jagger!
FFS, don't authors want to be quoted? Isn't that the whole goddamned point?
Ashley Madison's Response to Hacking Involves Abusing Copyright Law to Remove Info
Somebody's making a desperate effort to try to maintain control of the situation.
Australian Court Rejects Dallas Buyers Club Studio's Attempt at Speculative Invoicing
Says Internet users who download the film illegally can only be asked to pay the cost of a legal download.
