Tag Archives: copyright

WIPIP 2020, Day 2 panel 3

Posted on February 10, 2020 by rtushnet

Panel 3: Copyright Sarah Polcz, Loyalties v. Royalties: Relational Roots in Joint Authorship Relative reward (a pun!) and joint authorship. Our satisfaction for compensation is not just about absolutes, but about how fair the share is compared to the share … Continue reading →

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WIPIP 2020, Santa Clara, day 2 panel 2

Posted on February 10, 2020 by rtushnet

Panel: Copyright  Fair Use Jacob Victor, Utility-Expanding Fair Use: New technological developments: utility-enhancing fair use. Project: disaggregate it from other forms of fair use and see why fair use might not be the best mechanism for allowing these technologies to … Continue reading →

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WIPIP 2020, Santa Clara, day 2 panel 1

Posted on February 10, 2020 by rtushnet

Thanks to Eric Goldman and the rest of Santa Clara’s team for organizing a great WIPIP. I was only able to attend the second day, unfortunately. Copyright Christine Davik, Unregistered Complaints: Only US works (b/c of Berne) are required to … Continue reading →

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WIPIP 2020, Santa Clara, day 2 panel 1

Posted on February 10, 2020 by rtushnet

Thanks to Eric Goldman and the rest of Santa Clara’s team for organizing a great WIPIP. I was only able to attend the second day, unfortunately. Copyright Christine Davik, Unregistered Complaints: Only US works (b/c of Berne) are required to … Continue reading →

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Design Law Scholars Roundtable part 3

Posted on December 5, 2019 by rtushnet

Session 3: Shaping an Overall Approach to Protection Introductions: Jerry Reichman and Estelle Derclaye  In what ways should different forms of protection be tailored to various types of subject matter (construed legally as forms of intellectual property, but also subject … Continue reading →

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Design Law Scholars Roundtable (Notre Dame) part 1

Posted on December 5, 2019 by rtushnet

I have just now gotten around to my notes from this excellent roundtable. Introduction: Mark McKenna & Graeme Dinwoodie Why do a roundtable like this? Putting together scholarly discussion for long-term outputs rather than particular works in the short term. … Continue reading →

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Innovation, Justice, and Globalization: A Celebration of J.H. Reichman

Posted on September 27, 2019 by rtushnet

Harvard Law School Opening Keynote Yochai Benkler, Harvard University How do we understand what we do in our field against the background of profoundly increased inequality and stagnation for all but the top 5%, including an unprecedented increase in death … Continue reading →

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Innovation, Justice, and Globalization: A Celebration of J.H. Reichman

Posted on September 27, 2019 by rtushnet

Harvard Law School Opening Keynote Yochai Benkler, Harvard University How do we understand what we do in our field against the background of profoundly increased inequality and stagnation for all but the top 5%, including an unprecedented increase in death … Continue reading →

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Use of under 10% of photos in catalogue raisonné was fair use

Posted on September 16, 2019 by rtushnet

De Fontbrune v. Wofsy, No. 5:13-cv-05957-EJD (N.D. Cal. Sept. 12, 2019) De Fontbrune first sued defendants in France in the late 1990s for publishing a book, The Picasso Project, which reproduced photographs of Picasso’s works. (Defendants allegedly used over 1400 … Continue reading →

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Dastar bars Lanham Act claims against unauthorized copying of photo for album cover

Posted on August 27, 2019 by rtushnet

Patterson v. Diggs, No. 18-CV-03142 (NSR), 2019 WL 3996493 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 23, 2019) Patterson is “an internationally known photographer” who took photos of “a nickel-silver casing created by nonparty Moroccan company Yahya Creation” without a written contract and without being … Continue reading →

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