Welcome to the June edition of IP News This Month. Here’s your 5-minute guide to the latest goings-on in IP, culled from news reports around the world. Thanks for reading! – Jeff Top 3 Stories Tay-tay vs the DMCA: Swift, other A-list musicians launch attack on YouTube, urge Congress to rewrite safe harbor laws for tougher copyright liability […] Read more
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Welcome back to IP News This Month! I’m delighted to say the CIPP’s website got a long-awaited facelift – and so has your venerable newsletter. I’ll be adding pretty features in coming months, but in the meantime here’s your reliable round-up of all things IP, culled from news reports around the world. Thanks for reading – Jeff […] Read more
Top 3 Stories Law professors vs Harvard Law Review: profs are proffering a public domain alternative to the futsy system of citation known as the Bluebook, but a copyright claim means the project is in jeopardy More » Apple and Samsung’s global patent battle may end with a whimper. The Federal Circuit threw out a $119 million […] Read more
Here’s the first 2016 edition of CIPP’s IP News This Month, your guide to the most important news and trends in intellectual property culled from news reports around the world. Top 3 Stories Netflix tells viewers to chill on VPN use: streaming service announces crackdown on proxy services that let users circumvent copyright geo-restrictions. More » Family […] Read more
Welcome to the final CIPP’s IP News This Month of 2015. Thanks to everyone for reading – we look forward to bringing you more intellectual property facts and foibles in the new year. In the meantime, Jeff and the rest of the CIPP team wish you a safe and happy start to 2016! Top 3 […] Read more
Top 3 Stories Who owns Anne Frank? The celebrated diary of the young woman, who died in a concentration camp in 1945, is set to enter the public domain next year but a foundation has concocted a co-authorship claim to keep it under copyright for years to come More » Supreme Court of Canada steps back from […] Read more
Top 3 Stories The CIPP’s very own Prof Lametti is now a Member of Parliament! Canadians can expect him to use his formidable copyright chops to address issues like term limits and fair dealing, and help the new government shape a digital agenda More » Wikileaks released a final draft of the TPP treaty, and not everyone […] Read more
Top 3 Stories Happy Birthday to all of us: the world’s most popular song is finally free after a U.S. court ruled that a studio’s claim to the century-old work is invalid More » Fair use can go crazy (sort of) after the 9th Circuit sided with a mom who posted her baby dancing to Prince’s “Let’s […] Read more
Welcome to CIPP’s IP News This Month, your guide to the most important news and trends in intellectual property culled from news reports around the world. Top 3 Stories The IP issue that could sink the TPP treaty is… cheese. EU demands over geographic indicators have led US lawmakers to wave wheels of gouda, and […] Read more