Silicon Valley Media Law Blog
This blawg focuses on intellectual property licensing, strategic commercial transactions, and other intellectual property matters, including copyright and media law issues.
Author: Catherine Kirkman is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California. Her practice focuses on intellectual property, licensing and commercial transactions, with specialized expertise in media law, content licensing and e-commerce.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Media & Communications Law • Partners • States • California • Partner
Recent Posts from Silicon Valley Media Law Blog
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Stanford E-Commerce Conference 6/13
Hope to see you at the E-Commerce Best Practices Conference at Stanford Law School on June 13. I think it's consistently one of the best events around about online legal issues -- credit organizers Roland…
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Make Way for Duck Bites -- Roommates.com
Jumping in with a few thoughts on the 9th Circuit's Roommates.com decision, which came out last week -- some viewpoints include Eric Goldman, Michael Erdman, and Evan Brown.Roommates was sued for violating the fair housing…
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Shout out to the Copyright Office!
Back in the fall I noticed and blogged that the Copyright Office did not have an up-to-date version of the Copyright Act on its web site. The legal code was actually several years out of…
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Happy 5th Birthday, Creative Commons!
Last night Creative Commons celebrated the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Creative Commons licenses! I attended the San Francisco celebration -- JD Lasica has blogged what was a wonderful event. Also blogged by…
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Hail Stanford, 20-13 over Cal!
The Axe returned; the rightful order of things restored; celebration!...
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1st Amendment prevails in fantasy league case
The 8th Circuit issued an opinion today in the fantasy baseball case, CBC Distribution & Marketing v. MLB Advanced Media, in which MLB asserted that fantasy leagues need permission to use players' names and other…
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A small observation about the Copyright Office web site
Here's the story of a simple fix to the Copyright Office site that should probably be moved up on the priority list:I was looking on the Copyright Office web site for the text of Section…
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More on the metaphysics of "making available"
In anticipation of the appeal of the recent RIAA P2P victory, Fred von Lohmann reviews the "make available" vs. "distribute" debate in the copyright law. It's more than a sematics issue -- from Ars Technica…
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RIAA victory round-up and notes
Here are some perspectives on the much-publicized RIAA victory ($220K plus jury verdict) this week against the P2P file-sharer, Jammie Thomas:Bob Lefsetz takes his music industry to task, with rhetorical flourish: "What the fuck are…