Singularity Law

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]