Toy maker GoldieBlox, which is at the center of a controversy over their use of a rap song to celebrate girls and science, threw in the towel. Was this a real… Read more »
A fuss over a girl-power video makes the Beastie Boys look like copyright bullies. Don’t judge too quickly — the case is not cut and dried, and the video maker’s own… Read more »
When can news outlets use photos they find on Twitter? A jury’s $1.2 million award to a photographer over unauthorized use of photos from the Haiti earthquake is likely to give… Read more »
Many of the transformative societal benefits Judge Denny Chin cites as arguing in favor of fair use in the Google Books case arise only by virtue of the massive scale and… Read more »
The Authors Guild has argued that Google’s book-scanning project is copyright infringement on a massive scale, but the benefits of having millions of books digitized and searchable clearly outweighs the dangers… Read more »
The long-running copyright fight between Google and the Authors Guild is over: Judge Denny Chin issued a resounding ruling in favor of fair use. Read more »
Anyone can sing a song in the shower, but can they also post the lyrics on a website? In the case of commercial sites, publishers are saying no, and they have… Read more »
Binge viewing via DVR is another example of how consumers are increasingly able to piece together their own a la carte, on-demand, TV Everywhere experience using commercially available technology that is… Read more »
Google and the Authors Guild were back in federal court on Monday in yet another attempt to break the log-jam in an eight-year legal dispute over whether Google’s book scanning was… Read more »
The dispute between the Author’s Guild and Google heads back to court on Monday, where the two sides will debate over whether Google needed to seek permission to scan 20 million books. Read more »