IPTAblog


IPTAblog is a blawg about "the relationship between the law, communications technology and the creative arts." Topics covered include fair use, copyright and Internet law.

Author: Andrew Raff "is a lawyer, musician and geek based in Brooklyn, N.Y."

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Internet Law • Legislation & Lobbying • Media & Communications Law • Science & Technology Law

Recent Posts from IPTAblog


  • This post is a tribute to the greatest post in the blog

    If a tribute band uses choreography that's so original that it can deserve copyright protection on its own, what does that say about how good the tribute band is as a tribute band? ACES -…

  • Franken on Net Neutrality

    I missed the Future of Music Policy Summit this year, but Senator Al Franken gave a keynote address that summarizes concisely the key concerns about the need for net neutrality, framed in terms of a…

  • Tasty, Tasty Sausage

    This story about the natural gas industry losing out to dirtier fossil fuels in the energy bill on NPR's Morning Edition demonstrates the fundamental problem with Federal policymaking today, With Little Clout, Natural Gas Lobby…

  • FCC Set to Adopt Open Internet Rules

    In a speech on Monday at the Brookings Institution, new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed that the FCC adopt a stronger position and be more actively involved in regulating an open Internet. To date, the…

  • Teaching Copyright

    According to the program's web site, Music Rules is "a free educational program designed to encourage respect for intellectual property and responsible use of the Internet among students in grades 3-8." At Ars Technica, Nate…

  • This one goes to eleven

    As a 14 year old, Coleman Hickey made a stop-motion music video of Spinal Tap's "Tonight I'm Going to Rock You, Tonight" using Legos. The New York Times reports that Spinal Tap sought to include…

  • Accountability and the Public Option

    In the New York Times Magazine this past week, Peter Singer writes about health care rationing and determining the value of health care. Why We Must Ration Health Care. Towards the end, Singer writes, "Will…

  • If you really want to hear about it

    The NYT City Room blog reports that J.D. Salinger won a preliminary injunction in his lawsuit against the writer of , Judge Rules for Salinger in Copyright Suit: "In a 37-page ruling filed on Wednesday,…

  • The best fan video in the world?

    Via Top Gear's blog, I found this link to a fan-made Top Gear style search for the beat driving road in California: The Californians were disappointed that Top Gear dismissed the entirety of North America…

  • Shatner, Montalban, iPod and Kindle

    Dvice tests out the range of expression in the text-to-speech systems in the Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle by having the two gadgets re-enact the most memorable scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of…