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ReDigi and Aereo: Looking Under the Technological Hood
Is Copyright Law a “Turnkey” Solution? The ReDigi dispute has been going on since 2011. If you don’t believe me, you can read my blogs about it dating to then. I wrote an explainer last time about the...
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Shoot that Poison Aereo to My Heart! How a Copyright Decision Can Be So Wrong...
Free-Riding on a Dream By coincidence, the SDNY’s rejection of ReDigi’s business model happened at almost the same time as the Second Circuit’s seeming affirmation of Aereo’s business model. This...
View ArticleChecking the Sources: Why I Questioned Nimmer on Copyright
Practitioner’s POV: Treatises Must Be Reliable So, I’m very grateful to the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (“JETLaw”)* for publishing my article on Nimmer on Copyright‘s...
View ArticleIs Nimmer & Menell's "Lost Ark" of Copyright Just a Prop?
Spoiler: Yes. So, I’m talking about this article of mine that was kindly published by the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (“JETLaw”). See part I here. The issue has to do with...
View ArticleIs Nimmer & Menell’s "Lost Ark" of Copyright Just a Prop?
Spoiler: Yes. So, I’m talking about this article of mine that was kindly published by the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (“JETLaw”). See part I here. The issue has to do with...
View ArticleI Need a Copyright License for My Personal Virtual Island?
Yes, if You Hired Someone to Design it for You. Remember when Second Life was all the rage? I’ll admit that my memory is a little hazy, but I swear it was a huge deal a few years ago. Anyway, it’s...
View ArticleMy Response to Prof. Menell Regarding the Propriety of Relying on...
Prof. Menell Comments on 15% of My Article; I Respond. This is the first of a series of blog posts in which I respond, in detail, to the following assertion by Prof. Peter Menell in a recent blog post...
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Aereo into the Cloud: Further Thoughts About the Aereo Decision
“The Cable Defense,” “The Cloud” and More about Causation and Copyright Last time, I tried to make sense of the Supreme Court’s decision in ABC v. Aereo. But there are a couple of major issues that I...
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Poking Bears and Blocking ISPs
I’m going to post this and then go hide out in a bunker somewhere. I’m not even sure I can get through the introductory paragraph before needing to take cover. SOPA. (Crawling back out from her...
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