A Meditation on Innovation on the Occasion of the Death of S. Newman Darby, Tinkerer, Hobbyist & Inventor If you enjoy windsurfing, you might raise one to S. Newman Darby, who essentially invented it and who passed away last month. For a long time, not very many...
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due (or Demanded) Last week1I only read to the story today because I read The Tennesseean. Is it normal for a newspaper to sit on an AP feature for over a week? Also, the story was about songwriting, and there are lots of songwriters in...
New DMCA Registration Regime Starts Today. Don’t Delay! Today is the first day to take advantage of the U.S. Copyright Office’s new electronic registration system for DMCA agents1“DMCA agent” is short-hand for designated agent to receive notification of claimed...
Answer: NOT (necessarily) FAIR USE! Read the opinion, TCA Television Corp. v. McCollum, here. If you’ve found this answer without reading the question, here’s the question. I kind of deked you, didn’t I? Sorry. But given the trend of the caselaw out of the...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Copyright Lawyer (1 1/2 Stars) It’s time for another round of “Is it Fair Use?”, the fast-paced, heart-racing game that’s sweeping the nation.1If said nation were experiencing some serious time-dilation. This episode of “Is it Fair Use?”...
