Yesterday, Tom Bell posted a piece on the Technology Liberation Front blog entitled, "Unconstitutional Copyrights?". Mr. Bell provided a passage from his upcoming book, Intellectual Privilege: A Libertarian View of Copyright, in which he argues that copyright protection for songs, novels, movies, paintings and sculptures, is unconstitutional because these are [...]
Yesterday the Supreme Court declined to hear the television and movie producers' appeal from a Second Circuit decision which held that Cablevision's new Remote Server DVR did not violate copyright law. This case is a complex copyright case and it is easy to get lost in the weeds. However, I think [...]
Recently, CISAC hosted the World Copyright Summit in Washington,DC. Having been to my share of intellectual property conferences, I didn't expect to hear anything new or interesting. And while some panels did indeed beat the dead horse dead, a few panels and speeches presented new ideas and perspectives. Mark Heller, a Columbia Law School professor, introduced us to [...]