The Patry Copyright Blog

Here is a GATT restoration teaser I have been thinking about for some time. Section 104A restores copyright to foreign works that fell into ...

VARA disputes are uncommon, and so we are blessed indeed with two recent ones. The first, detailed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, ...

My last planned post on efforts to expose children to copyright law concerns the Copyright Society of the USA. The Society states it is ...

A recent post dealt with the transparent efforts of the Copyright Alliance to pass on the propaganda of its members as education to childre...

Gill v. American Mortgage Educators, Inc., 2007 WL 2746946 (W.D. Wash. Sept. 19, 2007), illustrates how tangled a web copyright ownership c...

Zenph Studios is a North Carolina company that specializes in a very special area: what it calls re-performances of previously recorded pe...

Cenk Uygur is the host of Air America's morning radio show "The Young Turks." A few people are reported to find him funny, l...

The Federal Circuit issued an opinion yesterday in a case of first impression involving the standing of bankruptcy trustees to bring suits ...

Here is a link to an amazing 18 minute video (there is not much to see, so you can put it on a back screen and just listen to the audio), t...

.. the love you take is equal to the love you make. In the end, Pro se plaintiff (and lawyer) Marie Flaherty , who, has been litigating a c...

MediaDefender markets itself this way: "We provide services that stop the spread of illegally traded copyrighted material over the Int...

In response to Monday’s posting , the Executive Director of the Copyright Alliance asserted in a comment on the posting, “we are a non-prof...

I did a posting awhile back on a fair use involving manuals for Gulfstream jets. There is a new opinion in the case that raises different ...

Those in the U.S. take for granted that works of the U.S. Government are in the public domain, a principle expressed in Section 105 of the C...

In a 37 page opinion today, available here (HT to Ryland for being first off the dime on it), the Tenth Circuit stated it was affirming th...

If class counsel is alleged to have blown a settlement worth $40 million dollars, what is an appropriate award of attorney’s fee for class c...

Australian pop singer Dannii Minogue is reported to have a fondness for lap dancers. She has denied a recent story that she went to a lap ...

Wired had an article yesterday (with useful links), to an opinion in a case brought by the RIAA (Atlantic Recording Corp. v. Pamela and Jeff...

Today's New York Post had a lead story about Leona Helmsley (also known as "the Queen of Mean") giving $12 million in her will...

Both the Eleventh Circuit and a district judge showed their familiarity with hip-hop music and its unique culture, in a classic infringement...