Singularity Law

As many newspapers fold or downsize, companies that make their money from selling content to those newspapers are running into financial problems as well. One of the most visible, and outspoken, of those companies is Associated Press (AP). AP is an American news agency that aggregates stories written by its members and its own staff [...]

Last month I was honored to speak at the mid-Winter Copyright Society U.S.A. meeting in San Francisco. My presentation was focused primarily on the Google book search settlement, and its implications for copyright owners in general. I had previously written on how I felt that Google had gotten the better end of the deal, which [...]

“Video game law” emerges as a specialty. Facebook and eBay test the limits of Section 230. Forum selection clauses become more important in Internet legal documents. Myspace tries to turn piracy into profit with a new technology. A man claims that an emoticon turned him into a pedophile against his will. Hear Professor Michael Scott [...]

 

 Singularity Law Episode 8: Virus [52:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Over the past several years there have been a steady stream of stories about the record industry pursuing alleged song downloaders from P2P networks. While hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against those who have downloaded songs from the Internet, thousands of alleged downloaders have received “settlement letters,” which accuse them of copyright infringement and [...]

A new U.S. president prepares to take office… will his “change” include a new technology policy? French record labels gear up for a fight against open source media sharing software. A European fashion designer tries to enforce a copyright judgment in New York. The judge who shut down Napster proposes a sweeping copyright reform. Craigslist [...]

 

 Singularity Law Episode 7: The Global Perspective [46:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Several weeks ago now, Google announced the settlement of a copyright infringement case filed against it by a group of American publishers who objected to the Google Book Search project. (I recently wrote about the settlement here.) The Google Book Search project has the goal of digitizing virtually every book ever published, and making that [...]

In September 2005, Google was sued by the Authors Guild, the American Association of Publishers and a number of individual authors for copyright infringement for its “Google Book Search” project (which was launched in 2004). The plaintiffs claimed that the project was “massive copyright infringement” and should be shut down. Google held the plaintiffs at [...]