At the end of August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a terse opinion in Cobbler […]

Jonathan Band · September 13, 2018

As we’ve previously noted at DisCo (see, e.g., here and here), the entertainment industry opposes the inclusion of the Trans-Pacific […]

Jonathan Band · August 15, 2018

Two Dutch organizations, the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and the research firm Ecorys, just released a Global […]

Jonathan Band · August 2, 2018

Australia just expanded its copyright safe harbors to provide certain legal protections for educational, cultural, and disabilities organizations. Unfortunately, the […]

Jonathan Band · July 6, 2018

Google kicked off another round of briefing in the ongoing Oracle v. Google litigation, filing a petition for rehearing en […]

Jonathan Band · June 14, 2018

The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group contained a clear articulation of the […]

Jonathan Band · April 25, 2018

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) issued a decision reversing the jury’s fair use verdict […]

Jonathan Band · March 27, 2018

Last week, in Ventura Content v. Motherless, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision making […]

Jonathan Band · March 21, 2018

A U.S. district court in California recently issued a decision in Disney v. Redbox that solidifies the copyright misuse defense […]

Jonathan Band · March 8, 2018

This week is Fair Use Week, so at first blush, the Second Circuit’s decision that TVEyes’s service was not a […]

Jonathan Band · February 27, 2018