Bridge Span 14-12: An Innovation Protection Model -Section 1201

Today the House Judiciary Committee is undertaking the next in its series of hearings discussing the Copyright Act. This time the hearing will focus on Title 17, Chapter 12 which discusses copyright protection and management systems, including section 1201 regarding the circumvention of copyright protection systems. The very design of the Chapter was to promote […]

September 17th, 2014 | Category: Intellectual property, Technology | Comments are closed

Flyover 14-1: Aereo

As announced yesterday, Aereo, a streaming broadcast TV company, was found to be violating copyrights on programming it was providing, given that the almost live broadcasts it made available represented a public performance of the content and hence was illegal under copyright law. In plain speak, Aereo’s entire business model was to take that which […]

June 26th, 2014 | Category: Communications policy, Intellectual property, Technology | One comment - (Comments are closed)

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
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