Unless you've truly been living in a hole, you know the Supreme Court today delivered its ruling in Eldred v. Ashcroft. I thought the rejection of the perpetual copyright argument was rather inevitable given that judicial authority is oftentimes uncomfortable with statistics and modern science, but it doesn't end the fight. There is room for a later court (it surely...

Today's the big day! Check out Copyfight for news and updates specific to the case. I know better than to reproduce the same links in a spate of duplicativeness. You can check out the briefs at Eldred.cc. If you don't know how to read a brief, refer thyself to LawMeme's Law School in a Nutshell, Parts I, II, & III....

Brit Mike Batt has settled a UK copyright suit against him for an undisclosed six-figure amount for "copying" John Cage's silent 4'33" in his own silent A One Minute Silence. That's right. Infringement of silence. Utterly absurd. Admittedly, Batt credited Cage for co-authorship of the song. But you just can't get around the fact that there is no other way...

This is what we call a special-purpose limitation! It seems like a waste of money. If sophisticated copy protection can be defeated with a magic marker, how is a wee bit o' glue going to stop anyone from copying?? [Via those wonderful guys at DE Law Office!]...

While clicking through news stories on my feed reader, I suddenly got this error message from a feed supplied through News Is Free: You have exceeded click through limits This site collects news items from hundreds of news sources and stores them in a database for indexing purposes. This collection of links is copyrighted and our terms of service puts...

Lessig has caught the fever and is now officially blogging. Newsfeed is here....

Habeas Inc. is working to filter spam from your mailbox through an aggressive strategy based on standard copyright and trademark law. Through the company's licensing agreement, you are allowed to insert a copyrighted haiku into the headers of your email, notifying the recipient that the mail is not spam. Anyone who uses the haiku in violation of the license will...

I didn't design this site with placing buttons all over the place in mind (actually, I normally find it terribly annoying). However, I think the Eldred v. Ashcroft site deserves a button. (You can get a quick background of the case here, if you don't want to sift through all the information on the site.). I believe that the United...