Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the release of a new Patent Public Search tool that provides more convenient, remote, and robust full-text searching of all U.S. patents and published patent applications. According to the USPTO, this free, cloud-based platform combines the capabilities of four existing search tools scheduled to be …
On Monday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Georgia v. Public.Resource.org regarding the copyright status of the state’s official legal code including annotations written by LexisNexis. From SCOTUSblog The problem is that the published volumes in which [the Georgia] statutes appear include not only the laws themselves, but also a series of annotations …
On November 13th, the Madison Public Library Central Library is offering a free public workshop on Researching Patent & Trademark Information: Essential Information You Need to Protect Your Intellectual Property It looks like an excellent program with experts from UW-Madison, USPTO, and more. 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Sign-In and Registration Packets 9:15 a.m. – …
The UW Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, in collaboration with Absolutely Art, is sponsoring a discussion on copyright issues for artists on Tuesday, June 28th, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. The discussion will be followed by a reception showcasing five talented local artists. Featured artists include: Doug Hoffman, Jesy Grose, The Moxie League, Dane Arts …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Yesterday, a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California judge ruled that the long-claimed copyright in the song, “Happy Birthday” is invalid. From the New York Times: The decision, by Judge George H. King of United States District Court in Los Angeles, is a blow …
Today the Ninth Circuit Court ruled in favor of Stephanie Lenz in a Fair Use case that may have long-reaching consequences. In 2007, Lenz posted a 29 second video to Youtube of her baby dancing and bouncing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy”. Universal, at the time the owner of the copyright on …
Copyright and it’s component Fair Use, are two of the stickiest and (at least for me!) most headache-inducing areas of law. There are so many shades of gray and changes that it can be difficult to follow whether the use of an image or video is allowed or not and under what circumstances something can …
Unsure whether a work is protected under copyright or is available in the public domain? Check out the nifty slider in which tells you the copyright status by year and whether permission is needed. The slider is published by Michael Brewer & the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Cornell University offers more detail in …
From Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society: Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. I thought that this was great – a nice little lesson on copyright delivered in …