...a song played over terrestrial radio is a public performance of a musical composition. To publicly perform a musical composition, the terrestrial radio station must obtain a license from the composition copyright holder. Online or digital, “interactive” radio is a different story – recording artists have the right to receive licensing fees for songs streamed through websites such as Spotify. Thus, under current copyright law, only composers, thro...
...fter the Supreme Court sent the case back down, saying isolated genes were compositions of matter, irrespective of the information they coded for, because an isolated gene is something pulled from nature and made into something else that is not found in nature, not a product of nature, and that compositions of matter are patent eligible. The Petitioners appealed to the Supreme Court again and the Court accepted the case. The Petitioners argued tha...
...tor of the Information Law Institute and a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science at New York University. Her areas of expertise include social, ethical and political implications of information and communications technology, and digital media (privacy, security, accountability, intellectual property, electronic publication, and computing in education). Helen has written or edited four books, her most recent work entit...
...letters and bold, purple font, circle perpetually. Meanwhile, in the legal community, the images have become the marker of fair use’s ephemeral boundaries, likely to be reproduced and redistributed in inter-office memos, law reviews, and case reporters. The increased visibility took place even without actual destruction: it was the order’s mere threat alone that motivated the media’s coverage. After being remanded by the Second Circuit, whatever l...
...a Privacy Risk? Your Questions, Answered, Wired (April 17, 2020), https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-contact-tracing-strengths-weaknesses/. [4] Id. [5] Id. The standards for distance and time period are governed by knowledge of the virus. Id. For example, as of now it is believed the virus has a possible 2-week intubation period and the infection area is around 6-feet. If these standards were to change, so would the standards for notificati...
...ghts to Blackbeard Ship-Salvage Images, Wall St. J. (Nov. 5, 2019) https://www.wsj.com/articles/yo-ho-ho-justices-ponders-rights-to-blackbeard-ship-salvage-images-11572992004. [6] Allen, 244 F.Supp.3d at 531. [7] Id. at 543-44. [8] Allen, 895 F.3d at 347-48; see U.S. Const. amend. XI. [9] 17 U.S.C. § 511(a) (1999). [10] Allen, 895 F.3d at 348. [11] Fla. Prepaid Postsecondary Educ. Expense Bd. v. Coll. Sav. Bank, 527 U.S. 627, 636 (1999). [12] Id....
...’ Bid to Charge Streaming Cos., Law 360 (Sept. 14, 2018, 5:15 PM), https://www.law360.com/media/articles/1082834/netflix-seeks-to-end-mo-cities-bid-to-charge-streaming-cos-. [4] Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendant Netflix, Inc.’s Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) at 1, City of Creve Coeur, Mo. v. Netflix Inc., et al (E.D. Mo. 2018) (No. 4:18-cv-01495). [5] Gardner, supra note 1. [6] Petition for Declaratory Judgment and...
...t Fare System Claims Patent Ineligible, IPWatchdog (Oct. 29, 2017), http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/29/cafc-mass-transit-fare-system-claims-patent-ineligible/id=89683/. [9] Id. [10] Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014). [11] Internet Patents Corp. v. Active Network, Inc., 790 F.3d 1343, 1346 (Fed. Cir. 2015). [12] Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., 134 S. Ct. at 2357. [13] Schaffer & Robinson, supra note 8. [14] Id. [15] Smart Sys...
