Oregon Senator Ron Wyden’s Twitter Feed is Full of Righteous Admonitions and Noble Calls to Action
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon stands behind programs and legislation that extend unemployment benefits, foster anti-racism efforts and support a comprehensive COVID-19 response. These are all commendable, but Senator Wyden […]
The Pirate Streaming Market is Booming, and Creators and Consumers Alike Are Its Victims
Operators of what is known as pirate subscription Internet Protocol Television (PS IPTV) provide a familiar service: stream television channels and movies to users (often on a subscription model, but […]
New Group Registration Option for Short Online Literary Works
Last month, the U.S. Copyright Office announced a new group registration option for short online literary works, which will allow creators to save money when registering blogs, articles, and other […]
Abraham Lincoln’s Gift to Copyright for Photographers
Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University School of Law; and Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Law beginning August 2020. This […]
Shampooing Baby Elephants, Buddha’s Tooth, and the World Intellectual Property Organization
Copyright Michael J. Remington (2020) A memory resides in my brain about a special week in the Republic of Sri Lanka. Previously untold, a secret copyright story can be recollected […]
What the Age of the “Hack” Teaches Us About Copyright Terms
“Students of the nineteenth-century drama come sooner or later to the realization that the most important dramatist of the period was Shakespeare.” – Marvin Felheim, The Theater of Augustin Daly (1956) […]
Senators and Creators Say Notice and Takedown System is Broken, While Platforms Blame the System’s Failures on Creators
Panel 2 [This post is the second of two covering this week’s Senate Subcommittee on IP hearing, titled Is the DMCA’s Notice and Takedown System Working in the 21st Century?. […]
A Little Piece of Copyright History from 2009
For the Copyright Alliance’s blog series called The Secret History of Copyright, I thought it would be interesting to share an actual piece of history. In early 2009 as the […]
Internet Archive’s “Emergency Library”: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
The old saying that “life is unpredictable” is certainly an understatement these days, with COVID-19 forcing the world to face the biggest global pandemic that any of us have experienced […]
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Continue to Support Creative Community
This week (the week of April 19) was supposed to be our favorite week of the year here at the Copyright Alliance. We were going to celebrate World IP Week […]