The Patry Copyright Blog

I launched a new blog today, called Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. Here's the link. The blog is based on a book I just published ...

A recent decision by a district court in Colorado , Health Grades, Inc., v.   Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Inc.   (HT to Eric...

West Publishing just put out a "new" treatise of mine on fair use in copyright. Here is a link to buy it ($200, free shipping!)...

Former Register of Copyrights Barbara Ringer died this morning at 83. A very private person, there will be no ceremony. It is impossible to ...

Baruch dyan ha-emet. “Blessed is the Judge of Truth,” is an expression uttered when one hears news of a terrible loss, especially death. ...

The voice of the people has been heard. I will restore the posts, hopefully by tomorrow. This is not what I would prefer, but I respect that...

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...