The Patry Copyright Blog

My morning gossip rag, the New York Post, had this story yesterday about a suit brought by six Second Lifers suing a Queens man in the EDNY...

A second former Chief Judge of the Second Circuit has died, Thomas Meskill . Judge Meskill had been the mayor of New Britain, Connecticut, ...

When the 1990 Architectural Works Protection Act was being drafted, the question of what constituted an architectural work was an important ...

Yesterday I attended the oral argument in the Second Circuit in the Cablevision RS- DVR case, previously blogged here . With the usual cav...

Awhile back I posted about an article by Professor Oren Bracha entitled the "The Ideology of Authorship Revisited. " Professor M...

One of the few areas left to state common law copyright is with pre-1972 sound recordings. The New York Court of Appeals took the liberty pr...

If bad cases make bad law, it is also true that sometimes easy cases can make bad law too when courts don't exercise the discipline that...

The great Mp3.com wars were fought over the concept of storage lockers: yes, the suits involved violation of the reproduction right from MP3...

We have lost one of our greatest judges, Judge James L. Oakes (whose initials deliciously spelled out Jell-O). Judge Oakes was a native of...

Tomorrow at NYU, there will be a screening of the 2007 documentary Good Copy, Bad Copy, coupled with what promises to be an insightful quest...

There have been a number of stories about a petition filed by author J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers in the Delhi High Court seeking about ...

In the United States, the battle over licensing of public performances of music played via radio broadcasts in businesses open to the public...

Efforts by lawyers to assert copyright in their pleadings and briefs is not new, and is typically done not to suppress the contents of docum...

In a case that one couldn’t make up, the producers of the Chicago version of the Broadway play “Urinetown” sought a declaratory judgment tha...

I try not to be discriminatory among the circuits, either in my praise or criticism. As things fall out, for me and for others, the Ninth Ci...

There have been a number of stories about yesterday's jury verdict in Minnesota, awarding $220,000 in statutory damages. The best report...

My criticism of Nimmer's wholly incorrect view that to satisfy the subject matter jurisdictional requirement of Section 411(a) have bee...