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Justia attorneys have summarized a number of unusually interesting recent copyright decisions that I’d like to call to your attention. If you click through, you’ll see human written, human readable case summaries.

Garcia v Google – or the Innocence of the Muslims case, aligns copyright interests with an actress’s interest in controlling the use of her performance but is juxtaposed to free speech interests by Google/YouTube

Anderson v. LaVere – heirs of Mississippi blues musician Robert Johnson dispute over royalties

Brownstein v. Lindsay – about whether a court has authority to cancel a copyright registration when a plaintiff’s authorship has been “expressly repudiated”

Swatch v Bloomberg – in which Bloomberg obtained a copy of a conference call recording discussion a company’s recent earnings report

 

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On January 16, 2014, Stanford’s Program in Law, Science & Technology along with CodeX: The Stanford Center on Legal Informatics hosted a discussion with UC Berkeley Professor Brian Carver to discuss the Free Law Project, which provides free public access to primary legal materials, develops legal research tools, and supports academic research on legal corpora.

 

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On January 28, 2014, Stanford’s Program in Law, Science & Technology hosted the discussion, “Congratulations, you have an app – now what? App Development and Marketing from A-Z.” The discussion featured a panel of high level, experienced practitioner who provide tips, checklists and a road map for addressing legal considerations relating to mobile apps, including best practices for mobile TOU and Privacy Policies, platform considerations and much more.

Panelists included Ian Ballon, Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, Lothar Determann, Partner at Baker & McKenzie, Tristan Ostrowski, Product Counsel, Android at Google Inc., Geoff Griffith, Senior Counsel at Google Inc, Thomas “TJ” Angioletti, Associate General Counsel, Technology & Transactions at Netflix, Daniel Brennan, Director, Legal at Twitter, Inc. and Luis Villa, Deputy General Counsel at Wikimedia Foundation.

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http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=8E18A9AA-1AA4-4D7C-8EBF-0284862EC44B

A little hidden on the Internets, so we bring the Congressional hearings on Fair Use here to you:

January 28, 2014

Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, 2141 Rayburn House Office Building