Copyrights & Campaigns
"News and analysis of copyright, First Amendment, and related issues from a pro-copyright-owner perspective, with emphasis on the interaction of these issues with campaigns and the political process." The blog has coverage of the Recording Industry Association of America v. Joel Tenenbaum copyright infringement case and trial in Boston.
Author: Ben Sheffner is a solo practitioner based in Los Angeles currently working as a production attorney in the NBC Universal Television Group.
Blawg Related Categories: Constitutional Law • First Amendment • Entertainment & Sports Law • Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Media & Communications Law • In-house Lawyer
Recent Posts from Copyrights & Campaigns
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Major copyright owners, unions urge Congressional support for ACTA
Major copyright owners, unions, and trade associations have sent a joint letter to Congressional leaders, urging support for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement:ACTA Joint Letter The letter, whose signatories include, among others, five of the six…
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MPAA's Glickman seeks Hill support for ACTA
After weeks of false charges that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement currently under negotiation would eliminate "DMCA-style safe harbors" or make it "impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger," copyright owners are…
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Debunking ACTA 'Fear Mongering and Misinformation'
Canadian IP attorney Barry Sookman has an excellent post debunking what he terms the "fear mongering and misinformation" regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. As I and others have previously pointed out, the notion…
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Court again rejects BlueBeat's 'psycho-acoustic simulation' defense; issues preliminary injunction against sale and streaming of EMI songs
After receiving additional argument and evidence on BlueBeat.com's "psycho-acoustic simulation" defense, federal judge John Walter today extended his ban on the site's streaming and sale of Beatles and other EMI songs, issuing a preliminary injunction…
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ACTA: time to calm down, and look at the facts
I'm no expert on international trade negotiations, so I've been reluctant to wade into the (entirely one-sided) "debate" over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has recently come under heavy criticism from the copyleft on both…
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Viacom GC speaks on copyright and fair use
I just came across this very interesting lecture Viacom General Counsel Mike Fricklas recently gave at Yale Law School. Fricklas touches on such issues as why his company views piracy as a threat; what he…
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BlueBeat.com CEO explains 'psycho-acoustic simulation' to LA Times
Hank Risan, CEO of BlueBeat.com, whose 25-cent downloads and free streams of Beatles and other EMI tunes were shut down Thursday by a federal court, has given an interview to the LA Times in which…
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Scribd moves to strike class allegations from copyright suit; warns of potential for 'horrendous, possibly annihilating punishment'
Scribd.com, the document storage site sued for copyright infringement by an author who alleged that her book was uploaded and displayed without her permission, has responded to the complaint, filing an answer and moving to…
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Why legal blogs are better than law reviews
Because you can write sentences like this:Indeed, since the en banc decision was handed down, it seems that every conference and informal gathering in the field eventually morphs into trying to figure out what the…
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Court issues TRO against BlueBeat; rejects "psycho-acoustic simulation" defense
A federal court in Los Angeles today issued a temporary restraining order enjoining BlueBeat.com from selling and streaming tunes by The Beatles and other EMI artists, rejecting BlueBeat's argument that it created "new" recordings through…