This WEEK in LAW 189

This WEEK in LAW Episode 189

This Week In Law 189: Hobbits for Lunch

Copyright and privacy, Megaupload in both contexts, and more.

Panel

• Denise Howell
• Evan Brown
• Jonathan Bailey (@plagiarismtoday)
  • Plagiarism Today
  • "..."
• Chris Sprigman (@CJSprigman)
  • The Knockoff Economy
  • "Chris Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy and comparative constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. Sprigman received his B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He attended the University of Chicago Law School, serving as a comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and graduating with honors in 1993. Following graduation, Sprigman clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Justice Lourens H. W. Ackermann of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Sprigman also taught at the law school of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. From 1999 to 2001, Sprigman served as appellate counsel in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on U.S. v. Microsoft, among other matters. Sprigman then joined the Washington, D.C., office of King & Spalding, where he was elected a partner. In 2003, he left law practice to become a Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. He joined the Virginia faculty in 2005."

Topics

• Knockoff Economy
  • In ‘The Knockoff Economy,’ The Upside to Ripping Off Others’ Ideas via The Daily Beast
  • Can Restoration Hardware Legally Knock Off the Navy Chair? via Slate
  • Related case: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Bros. Inc. via The Oyez Project
• Secret, Withdrawn Republican Report Favors Copyright Reform
  • Will Republicans Use Copyright Reform to Score Revenge Against Hollywood? (Analysis) via The Hollywood Reporter
• Memes
  • I Can Haz Copyright Infringement? Internet Memes and Intellectual Property Risks via Law.com
• Box Office Revenues Post-Megaupload
  • Researchers find Megaupload shutdown hurt box office revenues, despite gains for blockbusters via The Next Web
• Hobbit Talk
  • 'The Hobbit' Producers Enlist Nielsen in Legal Fight Against 'Age of the Hobbits' via The Hollywood Reporter
  • Tolkien Estate Sues Warner Bros. Over 'Lord of the Rings' Slot Machines via The Hollywood Reporter
• Facebook Updates Policy, Seeks Input
  • A Primer on Facebook Privacy Changes: In Which Your Vote Probably Won’t Change Anything via All Things D
  • Privacy Groups Ask Facebook to Withdraw Proposed Changes via Epic.org
  • What You Actually Need To Know About The Changes Facebook Is Making To Its Privacy Policy via Forbes
• Oops! Wrong Email Privacy
  • Email privacy is weak even with court oversight via InternetCases.com
  • Senators Realize They Should Probably Update That 1986 Law That Lets Cops Read Your Email via Slate
  • See Jennings Case (S. Carolina) and DOJ Position in MegaUpload via The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Mannequin-cam
  • Store mannequins may be no dummies - they're spies via The San Francisco Chronicle

Tip of the Week

• No reasonable expectation of privacy when "borrowing" WiFi
  • Another Reason Not To Download Child Porn Using Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi via Forbes

Resource of the Week

• Cyber Rights, by Mike Godwin
  • Cyber Rights: Defending Free speech in the Digital Age via OpenBDB

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