Dissecting a Remarkable Ruling * The blog title is a reference to this Order of the Stick comic. (It’s safe for work, so long as you don’t read it out loud.) Last time we surveyed the forces that lead to this recent extraordinary magistrate’s opinion. It...
Judges: Courts Aren’t Litigation Clearinghouses Last summer, I started to blog about mass-defendant bittorrent cases pending in Washington, D.C., some of which involved over 10,000 anonymous defendants. Since the plaintiffs didn’t know who the defendants were,...
Once again, after a hiatus last year (because of the Register interregnum), the Copyright Office is returning to Music City. This year’s program will be on April 26 and will last all day. It’s good for 7.75 CLE credits (.5 more than last time), but the...
Part 2 of 2: The Second Circuit Punts on Third Down Last time, I laid out the context for the Second Circuit’s decision in the Viacom v. YouTube case–i.e., the state and open issues of the law of the DMCA safe harbors. This time, I’ll get into what the Second...
Part 1 of 2: Second Circuit on DMCA Safe Harbor: It’s Complicated Well, if you were hoping that the DMCA safe-harbor law would clear up with the Second Circuit’s long-awaited opinion in Viacom v. YouTube–that we’d get to the point where folks would know...
