Lawrence Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture.

This week, Stan Muller teaches you the basics of copyright in the United States. Copyright law is territorial, so we're going to cover the system we know the most about, and that's the US. Stan will talk about what kind of ideas can be...

Stan Muller teaches you a few things about copyright enforcement, and talks about the exceptions to copyright enforcement. While there are several, the one you've probably heard of is Fair Use, and it's a pretty tricky one. We'll try to...

Part 2 explains employee responsibility for protecting intellectual property. Learn about trade secrets, competitive info, and ethical boundaries at work.

Is it legal to mine data from a public website? Let's take a detailed look at recent lawsuits and controversies surrounding the practice of web scraping. Topics Covered: What is web scraping? Is web scraping legal? Lawsuits against data...

In episode 40 of Supreme Court Briefs, a printer toner manufacturer sues a company that refills their printer toner cartridges and resells them for a lower price. How long does a patent last, anyway?

Learn about one of the Patron Saints of Ireland and how he may have been the person to be caught for copyright infringement!

The internet destroyed copyright law and we have not re-built. Instead of laws and courts we now have claims and disputes. YouTube in particular has placed itself in the middle of extra-legal arbitrations over what is and is not fair...

From feudal land rights to intellectual property in the modern era, lawyers have been battling over capital for centuries. Typically leveraging social resources to generate and protect private wealth.



Katharina Pistor...

This law is my law, this law is your law...Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) explains how our legal system is manipulated to protect wealth, and why the rules of the game always seem just out of reach.

Renee Hobbs received an Ed.D in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Film/Video Studies from...

A printer toner manufacturer sues a company that refills their printer toner cartridges and resells them for a lower price. How long does a patent last, anyway?

This presentation helps employees understand their responsibility for protecting confidential information and intellectual property. It covers the various kinds of intellectual property, common copyright exceptions and limitations, and...

This presentation helps employees understand their responsibility for protecting confidential information and intellectual property. It covers the various kinds of intellectual property, common copyright exceptions and limitations, and...

AI startup Anthropic will pay a $1.5 billion settlement after being accused of copyright violations and piracy by illegally downloading books to train its AI's language models. (Scripps News)

AI-generated videos are everywhere online, but what happens when your image or voice is replicated without your permission? CBC’s Ashley Fraser breaks down how Denmark is trying to reshape digital identity protection and how Canada’s...

Europe-wide protests to 'save the internet' have been called on Saturday ahead of an EU vote next week which could overhaul web copyright laws.



The proposed changes would force Google and...

The European Parliament will on Tuesday vote on whether to approve a reform to online copyright laws, which critics fear will curtail freedom of information and benefit big...

In Case You Missed It takes a look back at the week's Brussels coverage on Raw Politics.





The media highlight of the week was Jean-Claude Juncker's State of the Union address to the European Parliament - this week in...

Some of Canada's most famous authors were shocked to find that their books have been used without their permission to train artificial intelligence software. The Writers' Union of Canada says it is considering a lawsuit, but one law...

The 1984 US Supreme court ruling in Sony Corp vs Universal City Studios was a victory for innovation. However, the ruling left many questions concerning how copyright law might evolve to accommodate new technologies unanswered. Now, a...

There's a long-standing tradition of amateur game developers tinkering with the content of finished games.

Nov. 25 -- Chet Kanojia, founder and chief executive officer at Aereo, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about the Supreme Court ruling against the company and his thoughts on the price of content. He speaks on In The Loop.

Nov. 24 -- David Fannon, executive vice president at Popcornflix.com, talks with Betty Liu about Aereo filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, why all of media follows the moves of Netflix and the future of agreements between content and service...