The Patry Copyright Blog

First it was Google; now its Amazon.com that literary authors are kvetching about. An article in Thursday's (September 29) Wall Street ...

The concept of originality is of obvious central importance in copyright law, but does it mean the same thing everywhere? On March 4, 2004, ...

One of my favorite blogs, Corante, had a posting about cease-and-desist letters sent by the NY Metropolitan Transit Authority and BART in t...

Albrecht Dürer may lay claim to the most aggressive copyright notice ever used, declaring in 1511 in a colophon to the Life of the Virgin : ...

The saying "Less is More" was popularized by architect Mies van der Rohe (but found in an 1855 poem by Robert Browning), and sco...

Michael Boudin is Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He clerked for the legendary Second Circuit Judge Henry F...

I have been watching the " Yes Men ," a documentary about two guys who spoof on the WTO, mostly via invitations sent to a domain s...

I know I am "building" up posts on architecture, but I came across an opinion that is so wacky it shouldn't go without comment...

My two favorite writers are Kafka and Borges. There was a time I could read Kafka fairly well in the original, but never Borges, which I hav...

In Feist, the Supreme Court dealt with what it viewed as the fact versus compilation-of-fact dichotomy: facts aren't protectible, but co...

That are a number of axioms in copyright, by which I mean foundational principles. One is that infringement of the reproduction right occurs...

The cases construing Grokster are beginning to trickle out. One from the Northern District of Illinois, involving the Monotype Corporation a...

The Sixth Circuit has become quite active in copyright cases in the last few years, now and then even issuing good opinions. One is ATC Dist...

Whether works deemed obscene should receive copyright protection periodically receives attention. In the SDNY, then Judge Martin refused to ...

Register of Copyright Mary Beth Peters, with whom I worked as a fellow Policy Planning Advisor from 1988 to 1992, has made a number of very ...

Supplementary registration is provided for in Section 408(d) of the Copyright Act. The Copyright Office has regulations in 37 CFR 201.5 an...

Continuing the thread if not the theme of the last three blogs, today's is on the idea-expression dichotomy, prompted by a June 27, 2005...

This is the last of three postings dealing with copyright in movement. The first was on choreography , the second was on Yoga , and this one...

The last posting , on choreography, mainly dealt with the lack of utilization of copyright by choreographers and others such as fine artists...

Given all the attention copyright law gets, one would think copyright protection is of vital interest to creators of original works of autho...