Bridge Span 14-9: Freedom and First Sale

Last week, the House Judiciary Intellectual Property (IP) subcommittee held a field hearing in New York City to discuss the “first sale” doctrine. The doctrine was first established in a Supreme Court case in 1908 and later codified in the Copyright Act of 1909. For nearly 100 years the doctrine stood without much challenge, but […]

June 10th, 2014 | Category: Intellectual property | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-8: The Copyright Alert System at One

The Copyright Alert System (CAS) has been operating for nearly a year now, and an analysis of its first ten months in action has been released. The CAS is a copyright infringement take down regime that did not require Congressional action, but rather relied on stake holders coming together to address challenges. According to the […]

May 28th, 2014 | Category: Communications policy, Intellectual property, Technology | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-7: “Conservative” Witch Hunt

Recently some “conservative” commentary bereft of law, logic or facts, argued that the Comcast and Time Warner Cable transaction should be subject to “exceptionally rigorous review” and Congressional scrutiny because the Department of Justice, the FTC, and FCC, the agencies charged with review and approval of mergers, are corrupt.

The yellow journalism articles, and […]

April 8th, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Technology | Comments are closed
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