Freedom for IP
This blawg "explores the intersection of intellectual property and human rights, while providing resources, references and news about IP and human rights issues."
Author: Blawg founder Brian Rowe is a 2L at Seattle University School of Law; Sarah Davies is Internet Operations Manager for the ACLU of Washington; and Riana Pfefferkorn is a 2L at the University of Washington School of Law.
Blawg Related Categories: Civil Rights • Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Patent Law • Seattle University • University of Washington • Law Student
Recent Posts from Freedom for IP
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InfoCamp Seattle: Google Book Settlement
Infocamp is going on this weekend at Cleavland Highschool in Seattle. FFIP will be there running a session on the Google Book Settlement. IF you want to join the conversation or join the panel please…
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Running a Law Firm on FOSS
Steven A. Reisler, who spearheaded the Law of the Commons Seminar here in Seattle, and Elaine Y. L. Tsiang have a great article up about running an open source legal office over at law.com. The…
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Copyright & Creative Commons: Alternative Licensing in the Arts
Washington Lawyers for the Arts has invited me to speak on copyright licensing panel later this month. The talk will be at 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, Washington 98104 on Tuesday, September 22, 2009,…
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Access to Justice and PACER
In working at Public Knowledge this summer, I was introduced to Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) for the first time. This resource was absolutely required for some of the FCC cases I worked…
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FCC Questions Apple Over App Store
Friday the FCC released a series of questions for Apple about handset exclusivity and the iPhone application Store. These questions focus on competition and appear to be a response to Apple rejecting Google's Voice over…
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Google Books: The Public Index Crowd Sourced Amici
Several New York Law School students, led by Professor James Grimmelmann, started a Goggle Book Settlement site worth checking out: The Public Index. The site includes the basics of the settlement, the briefs filed thus…
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Fair Use and Free Speech Video from American
"People are just scared to use fair use... I was scared to use it... lawyers would scare me they would say this does qualify as fair use but I would not use this.” - Byron…
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Google Books & Privacy
Here in DC there is a lot of talk going on related to the Google Book Settlement. I am most concerned about competition, orphaned works and copyright licensing of works under copyright. Although every time…
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Fail Blog takedown from Guinness World Records: TM v. 1st Amendment
Guinness World Records here demonstrates the exact wrong way to use trademarks: Here is Fail Blogs great response: EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is in response to an email FAIL Blog received from an attorney representing…
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WLA: Rights of Privacy & Publicity for Artists
Event Notice for Seattle: Washington Lawyers for the Arts, next brown bag lunch covers a great topic, Privacy and Publicity. Seattle attorney Mel Simburg will guide you through the ins and outs of Washington's laws…