I’ve waited two days to write about President-Elect Barack Obama because it seemed, well, rather silly to localize this tremendously historic, emotional and moving event with an examination of copyright policy. I still feel silly, but Obama started working on his transition first thing Wednesday morning (well, actually news reports said he started with breakfast [...]

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Today is a momentous day for the Copyright Alliance. It’s the first time we have filed a brief in any case, and this one was with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to hear an appeal of a 2nd Circuit Court decision reversing a lower court in Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings, Inc. You can [...]

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An interesting blog posted today discusses the ironies surrounding the work of Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the HOPE image that has been widely circulated during the Barack Obama campaign. Apparently, Fairey has become upset because some people have sold his posters – which he donated to the Obama campaign – on Ebay, thus [...]

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One of the Copyright Alliance’s academic advisors, James Gibson of the University of Richmond, had a perceptive editorial in The Washington Post today on the recent deal between Google and the publishers over the Google Book search service. Here was our reaction on the morning of the announcement, and here is Professor Gibson’s analysis.
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