Intellectual Property

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Nobel Prize Broadcast Rights: Intellect Meets Intellectual Property

AP | IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 12.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Intellectual Property, Nobel Prize, Broadcast Rights, Nobel Media AB, Nobel Foundation, Norway, Barack Obama, Sweeden, Media News

OSLO — When President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, a single Swedish company controlled the dissemination of his word...

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How to Make the President's Jobs Plan Work for New York

Kathryn Wylde | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Small Business, Intellectual Property, Green Jobs, TARP Money, Green Technology, Exports, Jobs, New York Congressional Delegation, Obama-Cash-for-Caulkers, New York, Nextgen, New York News

MEMORANDUM TO: New York State Congressional Delegation FROM: Kathryn S. Wylde RE: How to make the President's jobs plan work for New York DATE: Dec...

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Chris Christie Rips Off Monty Python, Troupe Threatens Suit

Martin Lewis | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has created an election commercial that steals copyright-protected material from Monty Python without permission or credit.

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Cease and Desist: David, Goliath and Social Media (David's Sword)

Jamie Starr | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Brazil, Vermont, Trademarks, Documentary, Colorado, Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Level 1, WME, Warren Miller, Denver News

In cases like the lawsuit against the ski film company Level 1, social media outlets are acting as a sort of gatekeeper -- a check on corporate actions that people in general view as unreasonable.

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Chris Rock's Good Hair Gets Tangled in Suit -- One Lawyer's Thoughts

Chad Fitzgerald | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Rock, Lawsuit, Chris Rock Good Hair, Copyright Infringement, Hbo Films, California, My Nappy Roots, Plagiarism, Intellectual Property, Regina Kimbell, Entertainment News

Regina Kimbell sued Chris Rock last week, claiming that Rock's new documentary about black hair, Good Hair, copies her 2006 documentary My Nappy Roots.

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Warren Miller Is My Friend

Jamie Starr | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Law, Intellectual Property, Aspen, Snow, Skiing, Denver, Level 1 Productions, Warren Miller Entertainment, Trademarks, Warren Miller, Denver News

In a sport long governed by an unspoken "bro code," it saddens me to see signs that skiing may become another cold and hard industry where even the great Warren Miller is made to look evil in the public eye.

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Save the Whales! Abolish Patents!

David K. Levine | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Generics, Monopoly, Health Care Reform, Copyrights, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Patents, Business News

The case for drastically reducing and eventually abolishing medical patents is clear: they raise the social cost of drugs, and medicine, while providing little or even a negative incentive for medical innovation.

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Copywronged: Lessons from Leibovitz on Likeness and Liability in the Digital Era

Justin Callaway | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Queen, Twitter, Copyright, Trademark, Ashton, Downturn, Obama, Intellectual Property, Facebook, Leibovitz, Demi, Annie Leibovitz, Media News

Perhaps a board game called "Downturn" with photo playing cards of all of the celebrities and icons Leibovitz has captured over the years might be a good promotional start for her new role.

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Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Limited Copyright, Newspapers, Free Content, Copyright, Content, Artistic Collaboration, Perpetual Copyright, Copyright Extension, Chris Anderson, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Intellectual Property, Music, Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, Cross-Subsidies, Publishing Industry, Free Economy, Digital Economy, Digital, Future of the Internet, Google, Wikipedia, Public Domain, Paid Content, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Microsoft, Books, Business Models for Digital Content, Thomas Jefferson, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Mark Helprin, Linux, Moore's Law, Espresso Book Machine, Art, Piracy, " "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, Advertising, Digital Age, Music Industry, Freemium, " Free, Media News

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.

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Novel Approaches to IP Collaborations: Advancing Cures for Neglected Diseases

Richard Chin | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Intellectual Property, Novartis, OneWorld Health, Group of Eight, World Health Organization, Neglected Diseases, Glaxo Smith Kline, World News

There must be multiple approaches to leveraging intellectual property to advance the development of life-saving drugs to combat neglected diseases.

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I Am Holden Caulfield

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Michael Wolff, Intellectual Property, Media, J.K.Rowling, J. D. Salinger, Media News

The best client you could have if you are an intellectual property lawyer is JD Salinger. The second best is JK Rowling.

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Cory Shields Named NBC Universal Intellectual Property Czar

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: NBC Universal, Intellectual Property, Cory Shields, Nbc, Media News

NEW YORK -- NBC Universal has named Cory Shields to the newly created post of executive vp, global policy strategies and alliances. Shields will be...

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Obama Joins Group to Block Treaty for Blind and Other Reading Disabilities

James Love | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Intellectual Property, Braille, Dyslexia, Blindness, Reading Disability, World Intellectual Property Organization, Business News

The number of accessible works is very small everywhere. However, in developing countries, the collections are super small, and access to works in languages other than English is practically non-existent.

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Guardrails for the Internet: Preserving Creativity Online

Michael Lynton | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Music Piracy, Copyright Infringement, Internet Policy, Internet, Movie Piracy, Intellectual Property, Bittorrent, Piracy, Copyright, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Michael Lynton Piracy, File Sharing, Michael Lynton, Media News

In no other realm of our society have we encountered so widespread and consequential a failure to put in place guidelines over the use and growth of such a major industry.

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Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Intellectual Property, World Trade Organization, Monopolies, Environment, Climate Change, Wto, Pollution, Patents, Green News

It appears that international efforts to slow the pace of worldwide climate disruption could also run up against powerful interests who advocate a "fundamentalist" conception of intellectual property.

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When Is a Lawyer Not a Lawyer? When She Acts

Jim Luce | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Internet Movie Database, Sydney Pollack, Jim Brill, Film, Tort Liability, Travel, Thought Leaders, Diane Keaton, Lawyer, Intellectual Property, King’s College in London, Pardon My French, Global Citizens, Robert Duvall, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Compliance, Creativity, Open Door, Tony Randall, Cate Blanchett, Grace Kelly, Jim Luce, International Organization, University of Paris Sorbonne, Anouk Dutruit, Without Judgment, Johnny Depp, Broadway Theater, Sanford Meisner Technique, Eli Wallach, Gregory Peck, Off-Broadway Theater, Stanislavski System, James Caan, Litigation, 15 Waffles, Sitcom, Acting, Youtube, David Mamet, Style News

Making a career in acting is a challenging prospect. What makes Anouk Dutruit's ambitions even more invigorating is her other career. By day and international lawyer, by night an actor.

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For the Justice Department-RIAA Connection, the Fifth Time is Not The Charm

Gigi Sohn | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Recording Industry, Department of Justice, Copyright, Riaa, Jenner & Block, Intellectual Property, Ip, Ip Law, Justice Department, Intellectual Property Law, Politics News

While there are a number of lawyers and others in the White House and elsewhere with a more balanced view of copyright, having so many recording industry lawyers concentrated in the Justice Department is particularly troubling.

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Should Newspapers Charge for Online Content? To Answer This Question, You Have to Consult a Lawyer

Peter Scheer | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Politics News, Intellectual Property, Newspapers, Copyright, Bloggers, Content-Aggregators, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Online Newspapers, Blogging, Media News

Information wants to be free, but the creators of information also need to eat. Which of these interests ultimately prevails, although partly a business issue, depends fundamentally on legal considerations.

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Obama Visit Strengthened Historic Partnership with Canada

Megan Harris | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Prime Minister Harper CNN, Intellectual Property, President Obama, Ottawa, Japanese Economy, Prime Minister Harper, Fareed Zakaria, China Economy, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Prime Minister Harper Fox, Canada, World News

During this period of global economic turbulence, it is astute for America to remind its friends how much they are valued and to refer to their shared history. It's a diplomatic retention strategy.

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Obama Administration Embraces Corporate Lobbyists on IP Issues in Geneva

James Love | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uspto, Bsa, Ifpma, Intellectual Property, Geneva, Barack Obama, Politics News

People at the USPTO have been telling me that Obama will be continuing the George Bush policies on intellectual property rights. So far, it is hard to argue otherwise.

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NPEs and Abstract Patents

Brian Kahin | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Bilski, Enlarged Board of Appeals, Us Patent System, Ftc, Abstract Patents, Software Patents, Patent Enforcement, Federal Trade Commission, Business Methods Patent, Patent Law, Intellectual Property, NPE, International Patent, EU Patents, Patent Bubble, Software Patent Court Decision, Federal Circuit in Bilski, Supreme Court, High-Tech Patents, Peter Detkin, Department of Justice, Extortion, Technology, Intellectual Ventures, Patent Law Enforcement, 1998 State Street Decision, Business News

Unfortunately, there is little transparency in today's patent system. Indeed, the patent system is beset by information failure.

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Innovation Is Essential to Economic Growth

Tom Donohue | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Global Economy, Piracy, Counterfeiting, World Health Organization, IP Theft, PRO IP Act 2008, 21st Century Jobs, Ngos, Global Patent Filings, Jobs, Innovation, China India Russia, Intellectual Property, IP, US Chamber of Commerce, Business News

America's ability to compete in a global economy and create 21st century jobs for our children depends on the ability to lead in innovation. And the key to innovation is intellectual property.

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Under the Radar: Two Tales From the Secret Life of Patents

Brian Kahin | Posted 08.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Qualcomm, Websites, Nokia, Trolls, Patents, Intellectual Property, Corporations, Lawsuit, Business News

The patent system is often portrayed as the defender of creativity, but as it's grown powerful, it's become a tool to extract settlements from little guys with the threat of astronomical legal costs.

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Patents for All: The System That Could Not Contain Itself

Brian Kahin | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Patent Lawyers, Congress, Intellectual Property, Patent, Patents, Patent Law, Business News

The question of just what is patentable is far too complex for Congress to handle -- especially given that even modest patent reform legislation has stalled.

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Reading The Tea Leaves: China's Huawei and 3Com

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Cisco, Intellectual Property, Bain Capital, 3Com, Huawei Technologies, Cnooc, Unocal Corp, TS-CDMA, Committee on Foreign Investment, China, Lenobo Group, China Business, Business News