Companies have to understand that people are finally starting to pay attention to T&Cs. “After a month which saw Instagram float some rather contentious changes to its terms and conditions as well as ditching support for Twitter cards, the number of people using the service daily has dropped by almost half.” Source: Wired.co.uk. Cross-posted to […]
Most of us think of Monopoly as a board game. Intellectual Property folk also think of it as a source of IP issues: trademarks in the name, trade dress of the game, copyright, and even patents. But how about this: a POW escape kit? Megan Garber writes in the Atlantic about how the WWII Allies used […]
Despite the slings and arrows of Hurricane Irene hitting Washington a week ago, the recent Global Congress on Intellectual Property Law and the Public Interest has produced an important document calling for more transparency and public participation in the crafting of IP law.The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest is an important step […]
I’ve posted a draft of my forthcoming article Civil Procedures for a World of Shared and User-Generated Content to SSRN. It’ll appear in print in the University of Louisville Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Scholars often focus on the substance of copyrights as opposed to the procedures used to enforce them. Yet copyright enforcement procedures […]
