The Patry Copyright Blog

It may sound trite to say I am overwhelmed by the response to ending the blog, but I am. I have read all the requests to either restore old ...

I have decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4 years. I regret closing the blog and I owe readers an explanati...

The Sixth Circuit just handed down a case that involves unusual questions of pleading in a criminal indictment, United States v. Teh . Defen...

On July 30 th , the House and Senate conferees approved the Higher Education Act reauthorization conference report, H.R. Rep. 110-803, to H...

I previously did a posting on the US government’s successful invocation of sovereign immunity in a claim alleging copyright infringement an...

The question in the title was posed by a decision filed yesterday in Tom Bean v. McDougal Littell (a division of the Houghton Mifflin Compan...

In 1978, in enacting Section 105 of title 17, Congress faced a choice about what to do with copyrighted works that result from government fu...

May a foreign government be sued in U.S. courts for infringement occurring in the United States? The answer, provided by the Foreign Soverei...

On April 2d , I did a post on the counter-reformation against amendments to copyright laws in the public interest. It is, apparently, not...

I have avoided commenting on the EU's proposed 45 year extension for sound recordings because the effort is so clearly wrong, so clearly...

The lawsuit filed by Facebook in California against the German site StudiVZ (and StudiVZ ’s declaratory judgment action against Facebook ...

In Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. , 539 U.S. 23, 31 (2003), Justice Scalia phrased the question to be decided this way: ...