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The Shields are Down! The Shields are Down!
TweetRighthaven – the copyright thugster and blogger-suer extraordinaire – continues the nosedive it began with its Democratic Underground defeat in June, the revelations from which led me to suggest...
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Qualitex Swatches for IP Teachers
TweetI know that there’s a contingent of Blog Law Blog readers out there who teach Intellectual Property in law school. If you do, I want to make sure you know about something I’m doing to celebrate...
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“Breaking” News: Righthaven’s Partnership with the Denver Post is Sundered
TweetLawsuit mill Righthaven has now suffered its biggest setback yet: MediaNews Group, publisher of the Denver Post has walked away from its year-long partnership. As one of the biggest newspaper...
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The Implosion Accelerates: Righthaven Begs for Stay, Warns of Bankruptcy
TweetThe copyright-lawsuit factory that has sued scores of bloggers appears to be nearing the financial precipice. Steve Green of the Las Vegas Sun and Vegas Inc. reports that Righthaven is pleading...
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Todd Kincannon Unfazed by Righthaven’s Bankruptcy Talk
TweetRighthaven antagonist J. Todd Kincannon (Photo: The Kincannon Firm) I asked Todd Kincannon, the lawyer signing up plaintiffs for a Righthaven class action, what he thought of the company’s claim...
View ArticleReflections on MediaNews Group’s Split with Righthaven
TweetLast week, Steve Green, the reporter who has most closely followed the Righthaven story, asked me what I thought of the revelation that MediaNews Group broke off its deal with Righthaven. Here’s...
View ArticleBauble Bobble Estoppel: Why Kane’s Tack Against Forever 21 Worked
TweetQuestions from Readers Blog Law Blog reader Amy e-mailed me with a good question about blogger Rachel Kane’s self-declared victory over Forever 21 in a legal dispute that never ended up in court....
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10,000th Konomarked Photo
TweetI just uploaded my 10,000th konomarked photo to Flickr. Konomark is a project I’ve started to help facilitate sharing of photos and other copyrighted content on the internet. My putting a...
View ArticleU.S. Chamber of Commerce Backing SOPA Even as Members Back Away from the Chamber
TweetDeclan McCullagh at CNET has a worthwhile post about one lobbying group’s puzzling and unfortunate support for SOPA: SOPA’s most aggressive defender: U.S. Chamber of Commerce The Chamber claims...
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Stanford CIS to Host Panel on SOPA
TweetThe Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, where I am an affiliate scholar, is hosting a panel discussion on SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act – and the Protect-IP Act that are...
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This is a Key Week in the Fight Against SOPA
TweetThis is a key week in the fight against SOPA – a sledgehammer law, ostensibly to fight copyright infringement, that would be a disaster for bloggers and for the internet in general. The bill is...
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Please Call Right Now to Stop SOPA
TweetThis is it. This is the time to make your voice heard on Capitol Hill before the disastrous Stop Online Piracy Act is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Go to EFF’s action page on SOPA...
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Newton’s Third Law of Intellectual Property
TweetIn Monday’s post, I noted that Dutch M.P. Marietje Schaake linked America’s proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) with China’s censorship of political expression (a point also picked up by...
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Social Media Gotchas in Court – Plus: Professor Goldman’s Innovation Giveaway
TweetProfessor Eric Goldman has been keeping a list of cases in which a person’s social media has been used as evidence against them, or, as he puts it, when litigants say “one thing in court and...
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White House Blogs in Response to Anti-SOPA Petitions
TweetThe White House has responded to online petitioning done by opponents of SOPA. In a blog post, IP czar Victoria Espinel, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and national cybersecurity coordinator Howard...
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Blackouts Tomorrow for SOPA and PIPA
TweetWikipedia is planning to blackout its whole site tomorrow as a protest to SOPA and PIPA – those internet censorship-in-the-name-of-fighting-intellectual-property-piracy bills on Capitol Hill. I...
View ArticleDown Against SOPA
TweetToday, Congress is considering passage of SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act – legislation that would destroy the free architecture of the internet and initiate censorship. I’m blacking out Blog...
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On the Radio Talking About SOPA!
TweetGuess what I did today! I was on the radio talking about SOPA! Not an internet radio station, but a real stick-in-the-ground over-the-airwaves AM radio station: KNOX 1310 Grand Forks, a talk...
View ArticleCourt in Texas Should Uphold the Full Lousiness of Patent Law
TweetOver on my Pixelization blog, I’ve explained why I think a ridiculous patent that threatens Silicon Valley should have carried the day in a federal court in Texas: Court in Texas Should Have...
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Righthaven Story by Defendant Eriq Gardner is ABA Journal Cover Story
TweetEriq Gardner, legal-issues journalist for the Hollywood Reporter, has penned the ABA Journal magazine’s new cover story: “The Righthaven Experiment: A Journalist Wonders If a Copyright Troll Was...
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