Washington – Two patent Supreme Court rulings Tuesday could help sort out when the losing party should be responsible for paying the legal fees of the winner in patent lawsuits. The Supreme Court found that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles all patent appeals, was making it nearly impossible to…
CCIA’s Ali Sternburg, camped out overnight at the Supreme Court this week to get a seat for oral arguments in the Aereo case. She filed this post for CCIA’s Disruptive Companies (DisCo) blog on how the Justices appear to be focusing their attention after listening to questions and answers, including several on how a ruling in this…
Washington – The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case that could impact the future of cloud computing and TV watching. The Aereo case could turn on how the justices interpret the definition of a public performance – whether Internet users transmitting content to themselves constitutes a public performance, which means they…
Washington – CCIA and the Mozilla Corporation filed a brief today in a copyright case before the U.S. Supreme Court, as the outcome of this case has implications for the overall Internet economy. The brief urges the Court to uphold the Second Circuit’s ruling in favor of Aereo, and stresses the importance of getting this…
Brussels — Yesterday the UK Government introduced new exceptions to copyright law. The areas covered by new exceptions include private copying, quotation and parody, disability, public administration as well as research, education, libraries and archives including text and data mining for non-commercial research. This move is part of the outcome of the copyright review process…
There has been a lot of action around intellectual property lately. Below is a list of recent and upcoming inquiries and events around copyright and patent, much of which CCIA is involved in: Copyright The House Judiciary IP subcommittee held a hearing on the notice and takedown provisions of the DMCA (titled “Section 512 of…
Washington – As part of its ongoing review of U.S. copyright law, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Internet is holding a hearing Thursday on the legal framework that supports both copyright holders and Internet service providers. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbors sought to balance access to information online with rightsholders’ request that…
On the eve of the initial deadline for a sweeping and heavily debated copyright consultation, the European Commissioner responsible for internal market affairs, Michel Barnier, announced a 30-day extension of the comment period. Via Twitter late Friday night (Jan. 31), Barnier cited “strong interest” as the reason for this unusual move — interest which reflects the breadth of…
My last post described how all three branches of the U.S. government are considering copyright reform. And they’re all still at it. The IP Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee has held two hearings on copyright already this year, one yesterday and one two weeks before that. On January 14, they contemplated the Scope of…
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