The Patry Copyright Blog

Among the papers released by the National Archives yesterday in connection with Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court is one dea...

Section 505 of the Copyright Act permits (but does not require) the award of "reasonable" attorney's fees to the prevailing pa...

There have been, since the 17 th century, many different types of works written about copyright: partisan petitions to Parliament, copyrigh...

The trademark dispute between the Brothers Warner and Marx has become an iconic example of the little guy winning over the over-reaching cor...

In the 2 Live Crew case, the Supreme Court made a distinction between parody and satire. Because parody targets the original, it has a need,...

Should the fair use analysis be affected by whether the source from which the copy is made is authorized? The issue is a recurring one, and ...

In a recent email from a choreographer who operates the downtowndancer.com blog, an interesting example of the confluence of copyright and ...

Here is a link to a story about an interesting suit going on in Seattle, a rare suit by one glass-blower against a former employee. The case...

While the mounting of legislative initiatives frequently takes a long time, sometimes spanning years, the execution can be brutally swift. H...

Oren Bracha is a law professor at the University of Texas Law School, an Israeli who clerked for the famous Israeli Supreme Court Justice א...

In an earlier posting , I discussed a case of first impression involving grants made by Winnie the Pooh author Alan Alexander Milne, a re-gr...

On Friday, a panel of the Seventh Circuit issued a very important opinion, per Judge Easterbrook, in BMG Music et al v. Cecilia Gonzalez . H...

The posting from two days ago on the Confederacy had an issue I wanted to save for this one, namely, the concept of the public domain arisi...

Victorian novelist and politician Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) has inspired, dubiously, an annual contest, found at this li...

As we await the Second Circuit's decision in the Martignon case, I participated in a Fordham panel on bootlegs, along with Martignon...

Registration (or attempted registration) with the Copyright Office is mandatory in order for infringement actions to be brought over "U...

I just finished a very thorough, fascinating book by Catherine Seville on the effort by Thomas Noon Talfourd to extend the term of copyrig...

Many will remember the Supreme Court's rebuke of the Ninth Circuit for creating what it termed a "mutant" form of copyright in...

Documentary film makers rely heavily on the use of others' works, many of which may be under copyright. Other issues arise out of a poss...

Jennifer Granick, Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, had a recent article in Wired entitled " Evolutio...