Intellectual Property

For all the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, which celebrates its 229th birthday this week, there is one that you won’t find: the right to intellectual property, specifically [...]

Rent Check There's been significant confusion surrounding a bill proposed by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) closing the so-called "felony streaming loophole." It's certainly a problem that these misconceptions exist, but [...]

Yesterday, #EndDMCA was trending on twitter, largely due to the promotion of Chelsea Manning. The hashtag was in response to a bill introduced by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) to deal [...]

News and Commentary Lila Bailey is profiled in this Fortune piece. It discusses her legal career, her move to the Internet Archive, and her history with the publishing industry and how [...]

News and Commentary With the announce of the Pfizer vaccine, much hay has been made over claims by the firm and supporters that they did so without R&D support from [...]

Happy Election Day! News and Commentary Last week, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu made a statement tweeted out from the USPTO's official account reminding voters about how "under President Trump's leadership, [...]

Rent Check Despite his best efforts, Tom Lehrer's dedication of all of his lyrics to the public doesn't mean that they're in the public domain due to features of U.S. [...]

Tom Lehrer is one of the most brilliant people in human history. Though a Harvard-trained mathematician, his most famous works are in the field of musical satire. A pioneer in [...]

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 [...]