Governmental Deliberations on Exemptions to the DMCA’s Ban on Circumvention
Today, following a rulemaking proceeding required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and administered by the U.S. Copyright Office, the Librarian of Congress announced six classes of works that would be exempt from the DMCA’s general ban on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works.
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Bilski & the Definition of Things That “Are Free for All to Use”
The Supreme Court today issued its long-anticipated opinion in the Bilski patent case, regarding a rejected application for patent protection over a method for hedging against the risk of price changes in the energy market. Hot off the presses: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-964.pdf.
And at first glance, this complex mix of opinions seems rather inconclusive. Basically, [...]
bringing fair use back into the copyright circus
Just as a quick follow-up to Christina’s excellent (and now widely linked!) post examining how the characters of Glee might fare in the real world of copyright law, I wanted to stake out another set of reasons as to why one might find the situation she describes so troubling. It has to do with the [...]
Open Video, WebM, and Patents
Google (with support from Mozilla, Opera, and others) announced today that they’ll be freely—as in beer & as in speech—licensing their VP8 video compression technology, as part of developing “a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.” Seems like excellent news insofar as this royalty-free format [...]
National Broadband Plan: Access, Education, & Copyright (Part II)
This is the second of a series of posts on the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. (An earlier post focused on the FCC’s recommendations for promoting innovation and competition in the provision of broadband services.)
I. Why It Makes Sense to Discuss Education in a Broadband Plan
Back in December, when the [...]
National Broadband Plan: Overview (Part I)
The FCC’s National Broadband Plan, released on Tuesday of last week, does a number of interesting things in its 376 pages. This post gives a very brief overview of the plan’s framework for promoting fast, competitive, and nation-wide broadband access. In a [...]
Open Access to Law: from http://public.resource.org/law.gov to http://law.gov?
I’ve been involved with a few initiatives seeking to promote wide access to scholarly articles, but have not spent as much time thinking about what open access means when applied to the raw materials of law: judicial briefs, caselaw, statutes, Congressional reports and hearings, executive regulations, grants, audits, and so on. This all changed on Wednesday, [...]
Sampling of Net Neutrality Comments Submitted to FCC
Because it’s rather difficult to search the FCC site for comments on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking “In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet / Broadband Internet Practices” (hint: try searching for proceeding # 09-191 and excluding brief comments), I’ve decided to provide a highly unscientific sampling of 25 or so of the more [...]
Great summary of Journalism & New Media Ecology conference
Happy 2010 from the ISP. We’ve got a lot planned for the coming year—including, of course, the access to knowledge & human rights conference in February.
But in the meantime, check out this great summary and analysis of our November conference, “Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who will pay the messengers?”
Three undergraduates in ISP fellow [...]
Final Panel: the View from the Newsroom
It’s an honor to be liveblogging the final panel, featuring Linda Greenhouse, David Carr, Marcia Chambers, Bill Mitchell, and Ari Paul, and moderated by Emily Bazelon.
Linda Greenhouse observes that the Harvard Crimson created an endowment to subsidize students who otherwise would have had to do work-study at other parts of the university. Describes the benefits [...]
Final Panel: the View from the Newsroom
It’s an honor to be liveblogging the final panel, featuring Linda Greenhouse, David Carr, Marcia Chambers, Bill Mitchell, and Ari Paul, and moderated by Emily Bazelon.
Linda Greenhouse observes that the Harvard Crimson created an endowment to subsidize students who otherwise would have had to do work-study at other parts of the university. Describes the benefits [...]
Safe Harbors and Online Creativity
It’s great to be part of the worldwide exchange of ideas that the Information Society Project makes possible. For instance, I am just now sitting at the front of an auditorium at Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, China, having finished my presentation on the centrality of safe harbors (for online service providers) to [...]
Fair Use, the DMCA, and YouTube
The ISP is co-sponsoring a talk tomorrow (October 14) by Michael Fricklas, the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Viacom. The talk–entitled “Copyrights, Markets, and Free Speech: Should We Be Free Not to Be Free?”–will take place during Elizabeth Stark’s course on law and technology, and will deal with Viacom’s arguments in its $1 [...]
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