Recent software innovations in smartphone photography are likely to have a disruptive impact on professional photographers. New business models, rather […]

Jonathan Band · November 26, 2018

This week, in a closely watched appeal of a critical music copyright case, music industry representatives filed a brief that […]

Ali Sternburg · November 8, 2018

Last week, the Library of Congress adopted new exemptions to the prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) on […]

Jonathan Band · October 30, 2018

Controversial copyright legislation advancing through Brussels has received limited notice in Washington, despite its potential to significantly reshape copyright law […]

Matt Schruers · October 18, 2018

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

Amid uncertainty about the prospects of the proposed Music Modernization Act (MMA), reports of possible expansions to the business model […]

Ali Sternburg · September 7, 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