Copyright Office Begins New DMCA Exemption Rulemaking
By David M. Silverman Among other things, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. However, the DMCA...
View ArticleFTC Proposes Modifications to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
These Would Mark the First Changes Since Original Adoption in 2000 By David M. Silverman The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a rulemaking notice proposing to update its rules implementing the...
View ArticleDMCA Update: Copyright Office Proposes Changes to Agent Registration System
Goal is to Qualify for Copyright Safe Harbor for User Generated Content By Adam Shoemaker, David D. Oxenford, and John D. Seiver On Sept. 28, 2011, the Federal Register published the Copyright Office’s...
View Article3rd Circuit Reaffirms Rejection of FCC’s “Fleeting Images” Policy, Reverses...
By Robert Corn-Revere and Ronald G. London (Photo credit: AP Images) On Nov. 2, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit reaffirmed and largely readopted its 2008 decision rejecting...
View ArticleMoral Panics, the First Amendment, and the Limits of Social Science
By Robert Corn-Revere The Supreme Court appeared to show social psychology no respect—no respect at all—when in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association it struck down a California law that...
View ArticleEmphasizing Interactivity, Court Rules that First Amendment Defeats Right of...
By Samuel Bayard and Elizabeth McNamara On Sept. 9, 2011, Judge Freda Wolfson of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granted summary judgment for Electronic Arts (“EA”) on...
View ArticlePenguin Group (USA) Inc. v. American Buddha: New York’s Long Arm Statute...
By Elizabeth McNamara and Chris Robinson Earlier this year, the New York Court of Appeals issued an important decision which should help New York publishers combat online piracy of their copyrighted...
View Article
