By Assaf Ben-Atar Last year, IPLJ Blogger Matthew Stark praised The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit’s decision in C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Advanced Media, L.P.,1 which held that the First Amendment trumped Major League Baseball Player’s right to publicity to license their statistics for use in online [...]

By Ursula Clarke In February 2008, the EU Commission proposed a directive to extend the copyright term for sound recordings from 50 to 95 years. The stated objective of this proposal was to “stop European performers from being the poor cousins of the music business.” (It should be noted that this branch of copyright concerns [...]