by Ming Yan Paul Cheng The Chinese media plays an integral part of the Chinese judicial system. Some have argued that the media does not increase the transparency of the Chinese Judicial system and may actually undermine court autonomy. Others have argued that the media promotes public interest and plays a positive role in the [...]

In 2007, Joel Tenenbaum was served with a complaint, accusing him of copyright infringement stemming from the alleged download of seven musical works from a peer-to-peer network. This marked the start of his battle against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and, more broadly, the imposition of excessive statutory damages in cases of copyright [...]

by Kate DiGeronimo The 2008 Presidential Election utilized the breadth of the Internet in ways previously unseen. As a new public commons, the Internet was the medium through which many Americans gathered information in making decisions about who to vote for on Election Day. Politicians realized that the Internet was to have a significant role [...]

By: Laura Nastase1 President Barack Obama’s April 2009 trip to Europe has been exhaustively chronicled from political, fashion, and protocol perspectives. But commentators have skipped almost entirely over the fact that President Obama may have breached both copyright law and the iTunes licensing agreements by giving Queen Elizabeth II an iPod. True, these are not [...]

– Not a verbatim transcription — [Moderator: Tilman Luder] [Speakers: Sarah Faulder, Scott M. Martin, Prof. Willem Grosheide, Trevor Callaghan, Timo Ruikka, Ted Shapiro] [Panelists: David Carson, Sebastien J. Evrard] [5:50] [Luder] The overarching question: How to best remunerate, how best to incentivize creation on the internet? [5:53] [Faulder] Question for us is: Can IP [...]

– Not a verbatim transcription — [2:30] [Ceceilio Madero Villarejo] In 2008, the commission adopted a directive that prohibited the collecting societies from restricting cross-border licensing. So it hindered the marketplace. CISAC decision. The commission issued first decision in Denmark case in 1971. (1) The CISAC decision prohibits membership crosses both offline and online. The [...]

– Not a verbatim transcription — [Daniel Gervais] Overview of the WTO action. [Prof. Wang Qian] Three major issues in case, but only focused on one. Who is the beneficiary if Art. 4 abolished? Correct reading of Art. 4 — concerns only the content, not the procedure of entry to China. ex. Shrek 2, the [...]

Fordham International Intellectual Property Conference “Trade Panel: Trade Policy & IP Rights” [Moderator: Prof. Justin Hughes] [Panelists: Jason Albert, Luc Devigne, Michael Keplinger, James Love, Stanford McCoy, Hon. Alice Pezard, Hannu Wagner] – Not a verbatim transcription — [10:45] Prof. Hughes: The issues that exist in IP will fade behind the other top stories of [...]

– Not a verbatim transcription — [7:53] Andrew Bridges: We hear a lot about the damages to content creators through flouting of IP rights, but these damages are not usually actually proven. To the extent that they have been proven, those damages should influence the debate, but it is often less than claimed. Lionel Bently: [...]

Fordham International Intellectual Property Conference Breakfast Roundtable: Monetization of Patent and Other IP Rights – Not a verbatim transcription — [8:45AM] [David S. Bloch] There are no copyright trolls. By definition, trademark has to be used. So, also, no trademark trolls (but cybersquatters looked like this). We do see the beginnings of holding patents with [...]