Eldred v. Ashcroft: The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Copyright Term Extension (2003)
Tuesday, 05 August 2003
At the beginning of this year, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (the “CTEA” or “Act”), which extends the existing term of copyright protection for an additional 20-year period. The district court had earlier held that the 20-year extension, though longer than the term in the
- Published in Copyright Duration, CTEA, Eldred, European Union Harmonization, First Amendment, Intellectual Property Law, Public Domain, Rule of the Shorter Term, Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
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Tasini: The Supreme Court’s Opinion (2001)
Monday, 05 March 2001
The Supreme Court last week affirmed the decision of the Second Circuit that, absent a written transfer of electronic rights from freelance writers, print publishers and aggregators (named parties included Lexis-Nexis [LN] and University Microfilm International [UMI]) are liable for copyright infringement for reproducing and distributing articles out of the context of the original collective
Tasini: the Perils of Using Independent Contractor Content (2000)
Tuesday, 05 September 2000
A recent decision of the Second Circuit underscores just how important careful contract drafting is when dealing with rights transfers in non-employee contexts. In Tasini v. New York Times, the appeals court held that publishers and owners of electronic databases do not, without a specific transfer of rights, have the authority to reuse electronically individual articles
A Summary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1999)
Sunday, 05 September 1999
On October 28, 1998 President Clinton signed into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Pub.L. 105-304 [“DMCA”]. The DMCA makes clear what was understood by many: that the U.S. Copyright Act protects the words that you are reading on this Internet page in the same manner as if they were in a book or a
- Published in Copyright Law, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, Intellectual Property Law