MISUNDERSTANDING RAM: DIGITAL EMBODIMENTS AND COPYRIGHT
In the opinion of the United States federal courts, digital software embodied in a computer’s Random Access Memory (RAM) is sufficiently fixed to constitute a “reproduction” under the Copyright Act....
View ArticleINTELLIGENT AGENTS AND COPYRIGHT: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY OUTPACES THE LAW … AGAIN
Intelligent agents, sophisticated computer programs that act on behalf of their users and adjust themselves to users’ behaviors and preferences, may answer the prayers of people who are increasingly...
View ArticleA DESIGN FOR THE COPYRIGHT OF FASHION
Fashion apparel is a multi-billion dollar industry that has no national boundaries. Designers, [1] retailers and consumers follow the game of international fashion. Within the last decade, consumer...
View ArticleJUDICIAL RESPONSE: A SAFE HARBOR IN THE “FAIR USE” DOCTRINE
Despite the cries of some commentators that copyright law is dead (or at least that they wish it was), [1] copyright law is fully capable of responding to the challenges posed by the new technologies...
View ArticleON-LINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LIABILITY FOR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS:...
“If you can’t protect what you own–you don’t own anything.” [2] Motion Picture Association of America “To promote the progress of knowledge on the Internet, those who are building the Net itself need...
View ArticleCOPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY WORKS: INTO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY?
Starting in the early 1980s, and ending in the very beginning of the 1990s, a number of scholarly commentators proposed that biotechnology works are proper subject matter for copyright protection. [2]...
View ArticleDOES INTERMEDIATE COPYING OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVERSE...
Researchers and engineers have long increased the speed of scientific and technological development by borrowing ideas from others. [1] The ideas contained in a work are often learned when the work is...
View ArticlePetrella v MGM
PETRELLA V. MGM By: Craig Shepard, Boston College Law School, JD/MBA Candidate 2015 The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in the case of Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The case...
View ArticleOn the Legality of Watching Unlicensed TV Streams
By: Monica Rodriguez According to a September 2014 report by Nielsen, internet streaming has become the obvious choice for a generation on the go—with digital use among persons 18-34 at 16%.[1] In...
View ArticleA Lesson from SpaceX: Dedicating Pictorial Works to the Public Domain
By: Elizabeth O’Brien On March 21, 2015, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, announced that photos showcasing the company’s recent rocket launch were available on Flickr.[1] Though this act showed a great deal...
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