The Paradox of Choice Meets the Information Age
Barry Schwartz’s seminal work “The Paradox of Choice” has received substantial attention since its publication nearly 20 years ago. In it, Schwartz argued that, faced . . .
A Roadmap to Reform Section 512 of the Copyright Act
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Ag-biotech merger symposium wrap-up
On Thursday, March 30, Friday March 31, and Monday April 3, Truth on the Market and the International Center for Law and Economics presented a blog symposium . . .
Summary Judgment Granted in Mayer Laboratories v. Church & Dwight
Judge Edward Chen in the Northern District of California granted Church & Dwight’s motion for summary judgment as to Mayer Laboratories antitrust claims involving Church . . .
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A Roadmap to Reform Section 512 of the Copyright Act
Executive Summary Section 512 of the Copyright Act, passed as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, was created to preserve “strong incentives . . .
Antitrust Unchained: The EU’s Case Against Self-Preferencing
Examining whether self-preferencing should be considered a new standalone offense under European competition law.
Declaring Computer Code Uncopyrightable with a Creative Fair Use Analysis
Google v Oracle is a blockbuster copyright case. This decade-long lawsuit arose from Google’s unauthorized copying of 11,500 lines of code in the Java . . .
Righting Incentives to Combat Online Piracy
More than two decades after Congress sought to strike a balance between the interests of creators and service providers with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it . . .
ICLE STATEMENT TO USTR on the 2019 GSP REVIEW of South Africa
We submit this statement in support of IIPA’s petition to review South Africa’s GSP eligibility in light of South Africa’s failure to provide “adequate and . . .
Fair use’s fatal conceit
My colleague, Neil Turkewitz, begins his fine post for Fair Use Week (read: crashing Fair Use Week) by noting that Many of the organizations celebrating . . .
No, The FCC Should Not Have the Power to Cancel Contracts
Copyright law, ever a sore point in some quarters, has found a new field of battle in the FCC’s recent set-top box proposal. At the . . .
A Takedown of Common Sense: The 9th Circuit Overturns the Supreme Court in a Transparent Effort to Gut the DMCA
The Ninth Circuit made waves recently with its decision in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., in which it decided that a plaintiff in a copyright . . .
Mandated “fair use” language has no place in trade promotion authority
Earlier this week Senators Orrin Hatch and Ron Wyden and Representative Paul Ryan introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation, the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act . . .