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...Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a landmark copyright protection case presented by Harvard Law School (HLS) Professor Jonathan Zittrain...
...Court hearing is essential to settling the constitutional issue of Congress’ authority to extend copyright terms on creative products, according to Zittrain, who is co-counsel for the plaintiffs and the Berkman assistant professor of entrepeneurial legal studies...
...compiled sourcebooks completely unbound and printed on single sided sheets. The University, or perhaps the Undergraduate Council, should buy extra high-volume hopper-fed photocopiers, which the students could use to make their own copies of the sourcebook material, in a way that legally exempts them from paying copyright. Whoever provides the copiers is likely profit handsomely in the process...
...exclusive interview with TIME last week, Movie88.com founder S.E. Tan said that while he was aware that the site violated U.S. copyright law, its operations were careful to remain within its reading of the copyright laws of Taiwan, where most of its servers are based. "We have spent three months studying the law in Taiwan, talking to all the authorities we can get," Tan said last week, before the latest action by the Taipei authority. "According to the law, if a movie is not released in Taiwan within 30 days of its release elsewhere, it is no longer protected...
...from a U.S. movie industry incensed at Movie88.com's challenge to the intellectual property rights that are the very foundation of its business. And the fact that those rights are protected by the World Trade Organization give the movie moguls a mechanism to quickly close up loopholes in local copyright law all over the world. Officials from the American Institute in Taipei reportedly discussed the Movie88.com issue at meetings with officials from Taiwan's justice department. And the result appears to be that Taiwanense authorities are acting on an interpretation of the law somewhat different from...