Stanford Launches IP Litigation Clearinghouse

Stanford Law School recently launched this “first-of-its-kind online database that offers comprehensive information about intellectual property disputes within the United States.”  To read the full press release, go here.  To check out the database, go here.

Topics: Intellectual Property Law

Pay-What-You-Want IP Casebook

Are free and very affordable casebooks the wave of the future? Lydia Pallas Loren & Joseph Scott Miller (both professors at Lewis & Clark Law School) are using a “radiohead” distribution model whereby students are given a suggested price of $30 for the book, but can elect to pay something different (more or less). They can even choose to not pay anything by clicking on the “Freeride” button. You can read more about their publishing company and its philosophy; take a look at the table of contents here, and read more details here.

Topics: Legal Education; Intellectual Property Law

EU Considering Privacy Rights of IP Addresses

According to the the head of the European Union’s group of data privacy regulators, “IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information.”  A report is due out soon regarding “how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others comply with EU privacy law.”  For more details, go here.

Topics: Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual Property Piracy: Perception and Reality in China, the United States, and Elsewhere

Take a look at this article that was posted to SSRN by Aaron Schwabach, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Topics: Intllectual Property Law

9th Circuit Upholds Extended Copyright Law Protection

On Monday, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dismissed a challenge to the constitutionality of changes to copyright law made in the 1990s. The Court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of Kahle v. Gonzales.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Intelletual Property Law

YouTube and Copyright Law

The Christian Science Monitor recently published “The YouTube World Opens An Untamed Frontier for Copyright Law” by Daniel Wood.

 Topics: Intellectual Property; News & Events 

IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review

Franklin Pierce Law Center is looking for papers for its 2006/2007 Academic Year Publication.

For submission guidelines, go to: http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu/Call.htm