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Nyemaster Goode West Hansell OBrien A Professional Corporation;
Legal Alert/Article January 5, 2011 The Internet has provided access to resources beyond our dreams, but access does not include the right to use those resources in any manner we wish. Limitation on such use is the principle involved in a case pending in the New York Southern District Court.
|  | The Copyright Principles Project
Katherine C. Spelman, Michael Traynor; Cobalt LLP;
White Paper October 4, 2010 Copyright law performs a number of important functions. It facilitates public access to knowledge and a wide range of uses of creative works of authorship, and, in so doing, it helps educate our populace, enrich our culture, and promote free speech, free expression, and democratic values. It...
| | Intentionally Nonprofit Journalism: A Tax Lawyer’s Perspective
Corinne M. Antley; Dow Lohnes PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article August 23, 2010, previously published on August 9, 2010 With the commercial print newspaper industry faltering - 100 print newspapers including the Baltimore Examiner, the Rocky Mountain News and Seattle Post Intelligencer closed in 2009 alone - groups of journalists are increasingly seeking alternative models to preserve a free and independent press. ...
| | Decision in Viacom v. YouTube: Dog Bites Man (Mark Cuban was wrong)
Lee T. Gesmer; Gesmer Updegrove LLP;
Legal Alert/Article July 26, 2010, previously published on June 25, 2010 Despite all the hoopla, this week’s copyright decision in Viacom v. YouTube (link on Scribd) was predicatable - a decision in the opposition direction would have been a shocker. Viacom accused YouTube (owned by Google) of massive copyright infringement. The court dismissed the case on...
| | New York High Court May Consider Important Copyright Jurisdiction Issue
Lauren E. Aguiar, Anthony J. Dreyer, Mary E. Rasenberger; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP;
Legal Alert/Article July 15, 2010, previously published on June 28, 2010 An important and unsettled question of personal jurisdiction in a copyright infringement case recently was certified to the New York Court of Appeals by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. v. American Buddha, No. 09-1739-cv (2d....
| | Supreme Court Again Limits Which Statutes Are "Jurisdictional" Absent a Clear Indication by Congress or Previous Supreme Court Authority
Linda T. Coberly, Steffen Johnson, Brook R. Long, Gene C. Schaerr; Winston & Strawn LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 30, 2010, previously published on March 2010 The Supreme Court recently issued another in a series of rulings limiting when a statutory requirement operates as a constraint on the federal courts’ jurisdiction. In Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick, the Court considered this question in the context of a provision in the Copyright Act...
| | Machinima: Machine + Cinema
Judy Suwatanapongched; Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 25, 2010, previously published on March 16, 2010 If you’ve ever seen clips of Halo avatars discussing how they are stuck in a canyon with the enemy camp, or watched the South Park episode where the main characters play World of Warcraft, then you’ve experienced a genre of film called “machinima.” The term...
| | Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission is a Major Vindication of the First Amendment
Charles L. Babcock; Jackson Walker L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article March 9, 2010, previously published on March 1, 2010 President Obama mocked the decision. An ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 80 percent of Americans were opposed to the ruling, including 65 percent who strongly oppose it with "an unusually high intensity of sentiment," according to the poll. One commentator said this ruling was...
| | In the Netherlands, Journalists Obtain the Right to Protect Their Sources
Jan Janssen; Crowell & Moring;
Legal Alert/Article March 9, 2010, previously published on February 4, 2010 In the Netherlands, the Council of Ministers decided to legally define the right of journalists to protect their sources.
| | Be Aware of These Common Copyright Myths
Alan J. Hartman, Katie N. Koch; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle psc;
Legal Alert/Article January 28, 2010 A copyright is a property right in an original work of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright protection is mandated by the United States Constitution and has evolved as technology has progressed, enabling the transmission of works in ways our founding fathers could never...
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