29
Jun
2017
Tam, The First Amendment, and Copyright
Last week the Supreme Court decided the case about the Constitutionality of the clause of federal trademark law excluding from registration disparaging,... Read More
23
May
2017
Product Labels and the Origins of Copyright Examination
A foundational story about the development of copyright in America is the question of whether product labels could – or should –... Read More
6
May
2017
Pre-1870 Copyright Records from the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
The Rare Book Room isn’t the only part of the Library of Congress with copyright records from before copyright was entrusted with... Read More
26
Apr
2017
The Copyright Office’s Amicus Brief from Mazer v. Stein
A short post for World IP Day, now nearly over. In part of the run-up to the Star Athletica argument, I had a... Read More
6
Apr
2017
Announcing the Release of Over 2,000 Pages of Lost Pre-1870 Copyright Records
This post is fairly long, and I don’t want to bury the lede, so here it is: I’ve tracked down and digitized... Read More
23
Mar
2017
Mazer and the Balinese Dancer
As folks who read this blog have doubtless heard, the Supreme Court recently decided the “Cheerleader Case” of Star Athletica v. Varsity... Read More