Desperation Shows As Critics Argue That Nominated Librarian Of Congress Is...
Last week, we wrote about the exciting decision by President Obama to nominate Dr. Carla Hayden to be the next Librarian of Congress. As we noted at the time, she seemed immensely qualified for the...
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A Dozen Bad Ideas That Were Raised At The Copyright Office's DMCA Roundtables
The Copyright Office has been holding a series of "roundtable discussions" on copyright reform that it's going to use to produce a paper supporting certain changes to copyright law. We already know...
View ArticleCopyright Office Pushing Dangerous And Ridiculous Plan To Strip Websites Of...
Back at the end of May the Copyright Office put out a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) concerning some changes to the DMCA agent registration process. As we've noted for years, technically to be...
View ArticleGood News: Carla Hayden Easily Approved As The New Librarian Of Congress
Here's some good news. After decades of ridiculously bad management, it appears that the Library of Congress has a real leader. Dr. Carla Hayden has been approved by the Senate as our new Librarian of...
View ArticleBill Introduced To Create Copyright Small Claims Court... Which Copyright...
For a while now, some in the copyright community have been pushing for a copyright "small claims court" as an alternative to filing a federal lawsuit over copyright law. It's true that, especially for...
View ArticleIP Lawyers Tell Copyright Office To Stop Screwing The Public By Opposing...
Last week we noted how the cable industry was distorting the definition of copyright to try and fend off the FCC's attempt to bring competition to the cable box market. Through misleading editorials...
View ArticleCopyright Office Intent On Changing The Part Of Copyright That Protects...
It's no secret that the US Copyright Office has been acting pretty nutty lately. For decades, the office has basically carried the water of the legacy copyright/entertainment industries, but at least...
View ArticleWhy Is The Copyright Office Lying To Protect The Cable Industry's Monopoly...
The FCC's attempt to bring some much needed competition to the cable box has birthed an absolute torrent of lobbying shenanigans by the cable and entertainment industries. They've pushed a flood of...
View ArticleWhy Does The Copyright Office Keep Acting Like A Lobbying Arm For Hollywood?
We've noted a few times recently that the Copyright Office has inserted itself into policy disputes where it has no business being. It's important to note that the role of the Copyright Office is...
View ArticleCopyright Group, In Arguing Against FCC's Set Top Box Proposal, Appears To...
Earlier this month, we wrote about how the Copyright Officer had filed a really bizarre and legally dubious comment with the FCC concerning the FCC's plan to open up competition in TV set top boxes,...
View ArticleAfter Massive Cable Industry Lobbying And Disinformation Effort, The FCC Is...
Back in February, the FCC approved a new plan to bring some much-needed competition to the old cable box, resulting in better, cheaper, and more open hardware. But fearing a loss of control (and $21...
View ArticleThe Copyright Office Acts As Hollywood's Lobbying Arm... Because That's...
Last month, we wrote about a blog post by Public Knowledge questioning why the Copyright Office kept acting like a lobbying firm for Hollywood, often stepping into issues where it has no business and...
View ArticleLaw Professor Mark Lemley: Hollywood Is Simply Wrong About FCC's Set Top Box...
We've been discussing for a while now about how the MPAA, with the help of the Copyright Office, has been propping up the complete myth that the FCC's plan to create more competition in the cable set...
View ArticleA Massive Cable Industry Disinformation Effort Just Crushed The FCC's Plan...
Back in February the FCC proposed a new plan to bring competition to the cable box. Under the plan, cable providers would need to provide their programming to third party hardware vendors without the...
View ArticleShake Up At The Copyright Office A Possible Preview To Fight Over Copyright...
As you may have heard, last Friday, the brand new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, removed the head of the Copyright Office, Maria Pallante, from her job. The press release from the Library of...
View ArticleThe Reason The Copyright Office Misrepresented Copyright Law To The FCC:...
There was some oddity over the summer, when the Copyright Office flat out misrepresented copyright law to Congress and the FCC with regard to the impact on copyright of the FCC's (now dead) proposal...
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MPAA: EFF Just Jealous It Doesn't Control Copyright Office Like Hollywood Does
Earlier this week we wrote about the revelation, via a FOIA request by the EFF, that the Copyright Office consulted heavily with Hollywood (the MPAA directly, and a variety of movie studios) before...
View ArticleCopyright Office Fucks Over Thousands Of Sites With Plans To Remove Their...
If you run any kind of website it's super important that you file with the Copyright Office to officially register a DMCA agent. This is a key part of the DMCA. If you want to make use of the DMCA's...
View ArticleConspiracy Theories Run Amok Over Copyright Office Executive Changes
Last week, we wrote about the big news in the copyright realm, where the new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, removed the Register of Copyrights (the head of the Copyright Office), Maria Pallante,...
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Wall Street Journal Error Filled Editorial Buys Into Ridiculous Copyright...
I thought we were done with this. After cooler heads prevailed, and people realized that the giant conspiracy theory over "Google's" supposed string pulling to get the Register of Copyright fired,...
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