What Happens if Reasonable Minds Could Disagree Whether Information in a Copyright Registration Is “Inaccurate”? Last time, I wrote about an outrageous legal result, Unicolors v. H & M. Because the copyright holder made a ministerial (i.e., minor)...
When American Exceptionalism Isn’t Exceptional Americans assume copyright is something you have to register for. The rest of the world assumes either registration is voluntary or honestly doesn’t know what you’re talking about. The truth about copyright registration,...
The U.S. Copyright Office’s Section 512 Report Is “Unbalanced” After five years of work, the U.S. Copyright Office has issued its lengthy report about how the DMCA safe harbors are working. If you want to read it, you can read it here. The headline takeaway was that,...
Joint Operation of a Business Leads to a Nightmare of a Case It’s fun to blog about well-publicized cases, like the recent Stairway to Heaven decision. But I pay much more attention to quotidian IP cases like this one involving a haunted house on Washington State...
Songwriters: The Ninth Circuit Might Actually Have Heard You When the Blurred Lines verdict was reached—and again when it was upheld, twice—there were many stories about how the decision cast a pall on songwriting. What if I, a songwriter, accidentally wrote the...
