24
Oct
2018
Archival Adventures: Saving ASCAP’s Library
As folks who follow this blog know, I’ve been engaged in a semi-successful effort to track down transcripts of Supreme Court oral... Read More
15
Oct
2018
Tracking Accuracy in Copyright Records – A Case Study
A few weeks ago, Joseph Felcone emailed me to ask about helping with a mystery in the copyright records he’d been investigating,... Read More
24
Sep
2018
Remembering the Washingtonian Case
This coming term, the Supreme Court will hear Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, regarding whether a party has standing to sue... Read More
17
Jul
2018
Video Post: A 1992 Hearing on Copyright in Legal Compilations
One interesting thing about case reporters is that even though the text of reported cases themselves been denied copyright protection by the... Read More
9
Jul
2018
Robert Fulton’s 1811 Steamboat Patent – Lost and Found
Robert Fulton is generally remembered as the inventor of the steamboat. There is some controversy over his debts to previous inventors, but... Read More
3
Jul
2018
All the Forgotten IP Cases, Where Do they All Come From…
Two years ago last month, I was reading the trial court opinion from White-Smith v. Apollo from 1905 (the player piano case),... Read More