In policy discussions, rightsholders often claim that the fair use right, 17 U.S.C. § 107, undermines the incentive to create […]

Jonathan Band · April 13, 2021

The software industry issued a collective sigh of relief after this week’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle finding […]

Jonathan Band · April 7, 2021

Today the Supreme Court decided the long-running Google v. Oracle copyright case, which began more than a decade ago.  Supreme […]

Matt Schruers · April 5, 2021

Singapore’s Ministry of Law and Intellectual Property Office have released a draft of a Copyright Bill that will repeal and […]

Jonathan Band · February 10, 2021

The omnibus spending bill just passed by Congress contains two provisions relating to copyright law—one largely unobjectionable, the other highly […]

Jonathan Band · December 22, 2020

Universal Music Publishing Group’s purchase of the copyrights to 600 of Bob Dylan’s songs for over $300 million demonstrates the […]

Jonathan Band · December 11, 2020

In this series on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) proposed Draft News Media Bargaining Code (Draft Code), DisCo […]

Ali Sternburg · October 9, 2020

When TikTok selected Oracle as its technology partner in response to President Trump’s executive order that the Chinese firm ByteDance […]

Jonathan Band · September 18, 2020

As the Hollywood Reporter describes, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals recently found in favor of digital services in an […]

Ali Sternburg · August 13, 2020

On August 7, 2020, Oracle and Google each submitted “letter briefs” to the Supreme Court on the appropriate standard of […]

Jonathan Band · August 10, 2020