The Digital Death of Copyright's First Sale Doctrine
An important copyright case won't be argued in the Supreme Court, which on October 3, 2011 declined to review Vernor v. Autodesk, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision involving the applicability...
View Article"Stolen" LinkedIn Profiles and the Misappropriation of Ideas
Within the context of the decline of the law tort of "hot news" misappropriation, Professor Annemarie Bridy discusses a recent Pennsylvania case in which the parties are fighting over ownership of a...
View ArticleOpening Government: On the Limits of FOIA and the Metaphor of Transparency
Professor Annmarie Bridy discusses the use of “transparency” as a metaphor for openness in government, the use of FOIA as a mechanism for ensuring such openness, and the ways in which proponents of...
View ArticleThe Decline of DVD-by-Mail, or Further Thoughts on the Digital Death of...
Prof. Annemarie Bridy comments on a dynamic new area of online copyright and licensing as she focuses on how Netflix is transitioning from an operating model that is clearly covered by an exception to...
View ArticleCopyrights, Fundamental Rights, and the Constitution
The recent Supreme Court decision, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, addresses fair use and the “first sale” doctrine, upon whose protection libraries, used-book dealers, technology companies,...
View ArticleOn the Legal Importance of Viewing Genes as Code
On June 13, 2013 the Supreme Court issued its opinion in the much–awaited Myriad case, which challenged the validity of patents on isolated human genes. The Court held that the isolated genetic...
View ArticleMandatory Facebook login for users trying to gain access to a third-party...
Professor Annemarie Bridy challenges the increasingly common use of mandatory Facebook login for Internet users trying to gain access to a third-party service - including posting comments to news...
View ArticleA Good Day at the Googleplex
Prof. Annemarie Bridy reviews the facts related to fair use and copyright in the long awaited decision delivered in the Google Book Search case on November 14, 2013 by Judge Chin. She focuses on the...
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