On Thursday the Senate is scheduled to meet and determine which bills should move forward. One such bill is S.3325, The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008. Make no mistake, this bill is to increase government involvement in intellectual property enforcement and to enhance remedies for violations. A couple of highlights from this [...]
Earlier this week we found out that JK Rowling and Warner Brothers were successful in their copyright infringement case against RDR Books for their planned publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon, an encyclopedia about all things Harry Potter. Everyone was quick to discuss the decision, including The NY Times, WSJ, TechDirt, Stanford Law School, The [...]
First it happened in Oregon, where the state claimed it violated copyright for websites like Justia to republish their law. According to TechDirt, “the state admits that the text of the laws are not covered by copyright, but that everything else about the way the law is presented is covered by copyright (such as the [...]
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