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Arthur Conan Doyle Estate Now Being Sued to Settle Whether Sherlock Holmes is in the Public Domain

16 February, 201310 May, 2017Intellectual Property, Lawsuit28 Comments

I have long argued that copyright law has grown far out of proportion and no longer serves the needs of the creators, so I was pleased to read this week...Continue reading

E-ink Now Being Sued for Patent Infringement

28 January, 201315 January, 2016E-ink, Intellectual Property4 Comments

Mike Cane slipped me a press release today which looks to be a simple case of patent trolling – but isn’t. It seems my favorite screen tech company is now...Continue reading

Antigua Gets WTO Permission to Launch Pirate Website

28 January, 201328 January, 2013Intellectual Property2 Comments

I have long suspected that international politics worked on a school yard level (“he hit me first”) but I never expected to see such an explicit example as today’s news...Continue reading

You Don’t Own Your Books (This is Already Happening)

26 January, 201313 August, 2015Editorials, Intellectual Property, Lawsuit8 Comments

There’s a case before the Supreme Court right now that many in and around the publishing industry are watching (and I should have covered sooner). Some in the publishing industry...Continue reading

The (US) Public Domain Class of 2012

31 December, 201231 December, 2012Intellectual Property11 Comments

It’s the last day of the year, and in many parts of the world the first of January marks a new set of works entering the public domain as copyrights...Continue reading

U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Final Rules With DMCA Exemptions

25 October, 201225 October, 2012DMCA, Intellectual Property6 Comments

As you probably know, the DMCA is a US law which makes it illegal to strip the DRM from music, ebooks and other content. There are a limited number of...Continue reading