News and Commentary The Hollywood Reporter writes about the $20 million copyright infringement claim made against Paramount Pictures based solely on a draft screenplay being circulated. The dispute centers on whether [...]
Rent Check Sean Mooney looks at an old article written by Jeff Bezos in 2001 about the problems associated with software and business method patents, and how he would fix [...]
Libraries across the country, despite being more valuable than ever, face a triple threat as a result of the pandemic. Their funding sources (state and local tax dollars) are being [...]
20 years ago last week, Jeff Bezos penned an open letter with his thoughts on patent policy. Following his conversation with Tim O'Reilly the prior week regarding Amazon’s 1-Click ordering [...]
Rent Check Sean Mooney writes about how despite added exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA Section 1201 in 2015, plenty of farmers are having a tough time getting [...]
In The Washington Post, Matthew Kavanagh and Madhavi Sunder of Georgetown University called for the Biden Administration to end its objection to a pending waiver of intellectual property rights enforcement [...]
Earlier this month, the Niskanen Center hosted a webinar with Charles Duan of the R Street Institute discussing the role of intellectual property in the supply of vaccinations. Later that [...]
In 2015, the U.S. Copyright Office adopted an exception to the anti-circumvention restrictions found in Section 1201 of the Copyright Act allowing the owners of “computer programs that control the [...]
News and Commentary Since the debate surrounding the "cancellation" of six of Dr. Suess' works became a debate surrounding copyright terms, I wrote in Ordinary Times about the need for a [...]
Rent Check A ruling in Google v. Oracle may come down tomorrow, and many in non-computer copyright-centered industries (think photography, film, literature, etc.) are concerned that a ruling in Google's favor [...]