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Category Archives: Copyright
Secondary Works and Derivative Works
I am finishing my copyright paper on “Tolerated Use.” Since most stuff published in law reviews never shows up in search engines, I’m going to post parts of the article that might be interesting, here. No footnotes, obviously. Tolerated Use … Continue reading
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Harry Potter Lexicon piece & addendum.
Here’s my Slate piece on the great Harry Potter Lexicon debate. Slate is a great publication but there’s not always room for a full legal analysis in the relatively short format. So here are a few additions to my comments … Continue reading
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Cablevision Amicus Filed
Filed amicus with written with Henry Lanham on Friday in the case Twentieth Century Fox v. Cablevision. You can download a PDF here; introduction is below. AMICUS BRIEF OF PROFESSOR TIMOTHY WU & HENRY LANMAN II. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF … Continue reading
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Writing an Amicus in Cablevision
I’m currently working on an amicus in the Cablevision Network DVR case, with the enormously talented Henry Lanman. The argument is for reversal. And the brief says, roughly, that – 1. The district court’s decision creates an end-run around Sony … Continue reading
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Creative Commons v. Public Domain Dedication
I support creative commons, but lately I’ve been more into just throwing works into the public domain, through PD dedication. (CC of course, has a handy PD dedication tool). Its simple and leaves behind no questions as to what anyone … Continue reading
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Copyright’s Authorship Policy
Meanwhile, I’ve also posted a draft of a new paper, “Copyright’s Authorship Policy,” on SSRN. The idea of the paper is a defense of authorial copyright — the theory being that authorial ownership can seed new means of producing information … Continue reading
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Patent’s Communications Policy
My paper Copyright’s Communications Policy was on the long history of copyright lawuits being used to set national communications policy, as incumbents used copyright as a means of slowing or trying to destroy their rivals. The Verizon v. Vonage litigation … Continue reading
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Creative Commons Reverters
I was at Yale on Wednesday giving my “Treaties’ Domains†paper at Oona Hathaway’s international law seminar. But later on I dropped by the Yale Information Society Project and had a chat about an interesting idea. Eddan Katz was talking … Continue reading
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Is Youtube really You?
A more on the law, as opposed to strategy in the Viacom lawsuit. Legally, the most interesting element is Viacom’s apparent argument is that YouTube isn’t even covered by s. 512 — because, in short, it isn’t really “you” enough. … Continue reading
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Back from Thailand.  Less scuba and instead mostly rock climbing in Tonsai, near Krabi, which I recommend. Came back to Viacom’s suit against Google is interesting. One interesting thing is the risk to Viacom posed by its lawsuit. Since Viacom’s … Continue reading
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