by Jay Marshall Wolman I read an interesting case over the weekend. You may recall the case of Heleen Mees allegedly stalking Citigroup chief economist Willem Buiter. She was charged
I recently wrote about the two year FBI investigation into the song Louie Louie. Read it here. The short version, some blueballed fuckhead agents and uptight feminists lost their shit
Horizon v. Marvel: Copyright in the Three-Point Landing? I love copyright law, usually. Why is it there? It is there to ensure that authors and artists can profit from their
Germany has limited individual piracy penalties to about $1,300 a pop. (source). On one side, I think that’s a reasonable penalty for stealing a song or a movie. On the
No matter your opinion on U.S. copyright law, it is the law of the land. Copying a work without consent may be unlawful and subject the copier to damages. On
Lee Cheng, Chief Legal Officer of online retailer Newegg, said: “A troll is a type of entity that doesn’t sell a product, or transfer value of any sort. All they
As some of you remember, Raanan Katz sued Google and others for copyright infringement this summer over a Blogger user’s publication of an “unflattering” photograph of him. Today, popular sports
In May of 2010, Thomas Privitere and Brian Edwards, a gay couple, hired a photographer to take pictures of the two men in a New York City park. Their favorite
The Innocence of Muslims seems to be the place wehre really stupid free speech positions intersect with the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the latest installment, we have the dumbest copyright infringement
This blog often features articles on developments in § 230 of the Communications Decency Act, or the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the significance – and nuance – of such
Back in April, I wrote an article “Challenging The Copyrightability Of Porn” (html version – digital mag version) This was to confront a growing chorus of voices questioning whether porn
A lot has been written about Righthaven v. Hoehn (my case), but the following article was so idiotic, so uninformed, such shoddy work, that I feel the need to show
