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Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark’s media newsletter “Screen Time” (which I encourage readers to subscribe to) had an interesting article about how movie studios are continuing to leverage their power [...]

Rent Check We don't have much to go on in figuring out how a Justice Amy Coney Barrett would rule when it comes to intellectual property, but an exchange with [...]

Intellectual property is usually the red-headed stepchild of Supreme Court nomination hearings, and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is no exception. With few cases to go on, most of [...]

San Francisco has just released the final report of its Economic Recovery Task Force. There are a lot of good parts to it--reducing regulatory burdens associated with housing construction among [...]

Rent Check Last week were the oral arguments in Google v. Oracle. Here are my initial impressions from the day of the arguments. As everything moves online, so too does library [...]

This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Google v. Oracle. The practical implications of this case and the copyrightability of application programming interfaces (APIs) are significant because of [...]

In the debate surrounding controlled digital lending (CDL), where libraries can scan physical copies of books to be lent out on a one-to-one own-to-loan basis, one common refrain is that [...]

If you haven't done so already, be sure to sign up for the webinar hosted by Niskanen Center on copyright during the pandemic. It will feature Niskanen's Daniel Takash and [...]

Rent Check Penguin RandomHouse is doing quite well for itself despite the pandemic. Much of that success is based on sales from older titles rather than investing in (and taking [...]