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Home :: Copyright Law 09 May 2007 Stop! Don't Forward That E-mail! Copyright Law Forwarding e-mail is so easy that it must be legal, right? Not everyone thinks so. Ned Snow at the University of Arkansas recently wrote A Copyright Conundrum: Protecting Email Privacy that argues that forwarding violates the sender's copyright rights, so it's not. The article is quite clever and is (as best I can tell, not being a legal historian) well researched, even if you agree with me that its conclusions are a bunch of codswallop. See more ... posted at: 17:15 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Copyright_Law/snow.trackback 19 Mar 2006 Google Wins an Easy One Copyright Law Last week a court in Philadelphia dismissed a 2004 case filed by Gordon Roy Parker. In the decision the judge threw out the entire case alleging copyright infringement, defamation, invasion of privacy, and a grab bag of other complaints. See more ... posted at: 14:04 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Copyright_Law/googleparker.trackback 30 Jan 2006 Court rules for Google in cache copyright case Copyright Law In a widely noted decision, a Nevada judge has handed down a ruling in favor of Google in a case in which attorney Blake Field sued Google for copyright infringement due to Google's web page cache keeping copies of his material. Read comments by the EFF, Red Herring, and Larry Lessig's blog. I am Google's technical expert in the case, and as you might expect, I am pleased that the judge found our position, including my report and declaration, so persuasive. posted at: 02:25 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Copyright_Law/field.trackback 16 Nov 2005 Knowledge@Wharton on Google Print Copyright Law The Knowledge@Wharton newsletter published by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has an interesting article on the Google Print cases. Professor Kevin Werbach offers a fine capsule summary of the case: "Google is clearly going out on a limb with respect to copyright. The limb may well hold, which I think would be the better result as a matter of public policy. On the other hand, the limb could easily break. The courts will decide." They also excerpt an interview with Pat Schroder, president of the AAP which filed the second case: "snippet" isn't a legal term and could evolve from meaning a sentence to meaning a complete chapter. I read that to say that what Google is doing is OK, and even though there's no evidence that they plan to do anything else, we need to stop them just because of what they might do. I hope the judge has enough sense to recognize a cloud of smoke when he or she sees it. posted at: 22:36 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Copyright_Law/wharton.trackback 06 Nov 2005 Google hasn't quite resumed scanning after all Copyright Law An article in CNET reports that Google hasn't resumed scanning library books. They say it's ``an operational thing'' and confirm that when they do resume, they'll be scanning older books rather than those that are still in print. posted at: 23:41 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Copyright_Law/googlenotresume.trackback

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