Can ReDigi Take Advantage of the First Sale Doctrine? When I first contemplated this Online Music Services Series, I decided not to discuss Apple’s iTunes Store service or similar services because (1) they weren’t new, and (2) the relevant law was pretty boring. While...
Tara was thrilled to participate as a speaker at a gathering of copyright, trademark, and technology lawyers at the German Patent and Trademark Office in Berlin, Germany on October 10, 2011 to talk about “Trademarks and Copyrighted Content in Social...
Welcome to Our Second Episode of “Is it Fair Use?” This opinion by Judge J.D. Stadtmueller in Brownmark Films, LLC v. Comedy Partners is pretty close to priceless, dealing, as it does, with South Park’s send-up of the notorious “What What (in the Butt)”...
Why I’ve Admired Steve Jobs Since 1980 When Steve Jobs passed away last week, it felt almost (but not quite) like a death in the family. It’s a little hard to explain why. Sure, I’ve been using Apple products since around 1980 (I can’t remember the exact year my...
And the World of Internet-Privacy Law Is a +.01% Better Place As we saw last time, Tennessee has recognized “intrusion upon seclusion,” a flavor of invasion of privacy, since at least 2002, but until now, the cases had been so unusual that we didn’t know very much...
Or, How One Really Bad Idea Helped Clarify Tennessee Privacy Law Burnette v. Porter is about as non-technological a case as you’ll find. The Internet plays a minor role, which mostly just shows how ubiquitous the internet has become in our everyday lives. The decision...
