The Patry Copyright Blog

It was inevitable, and probably inevitable that it would happen this way. Courtesy of a Google News search, here is the story: (Los Angeles...

On December 7th, from 6 to 8 pm PST, in the Center Auditorium in Kula, Judge Posner, or more accurately, his avatar, will be interviewed. Ku...

In civil law countries, exceptions to rights don't take the form of fair use, but rather statutory provisions that spell out the permitt...

On November 17 th , in Conwest Resources, Inc. v. Playtime Novelties, 2006 WL 3346226 (N.D. Cal.), Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong denied a ...

The ancient Israelites were described as עם הספר (Am-HaSefer), the People of the Book, specifically the Torah. The holiday of שמחת תורה ( Si...

I am hoping readers can provide some empirical data in a series of disagreements I have been having with West Publishing Company in connecti...

The concept of the territoriality of copyright plays out in a number of complex, interesting ways. By territoriality, people usually mean a ...

When two music publishers are fighting over who treated poor Cuban musicians best, one is in uncharted waters. Choice of law, forum selectio...

In an era when a notice of copyright is not required and is of legal utility only in connection with innocent infringement claims, why go to...

Yesterday's posting reviewed Ronan Deazley's masterful "Rethinking Copyright" book. Readers were dismayed at the $95 price...

It is a common thread that the writing of history is concerned not so much with setting forth an accurate description of the past, as it is ...

On the classic 1968 album "Cheaps Thrills" (should there be any other kind?), Janis Joplin sings "Whoa, call me mean or call ...

Nu Nu is the name of a vacuum cleaner in the deeply annoying TeleTubbies show for children. GNU is something else, it refers to a license ...

The remedy of impoundment of allegedly infringing copies has a long and somewhat tangled history. Sections 101(c) and (d) of the 1909 Act pr...

With the fate of the Senate still unknown, a full picture of the election remains to be drawn. On the House side, there is no uncertainty as...

A patent battle between two titans, AT&T and Microsoft, currently before the Supreme Court awaiting oral argument, raises the increasing...