Monthly Archives: November 2010

COICA: First Amendment

Terry Hart • November 29, 2010 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

Last week, I’ve been taking a close look at the proposed Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeiting Act (COICA), which was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on November 18th. On Monday, I examined what the bill does, and on Wednesday I addressed due process criticisms. Today I want to take a look at the [...]

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COICA: Due Process

Terry Hart • November 24, 2010 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

On Monday, I discussed the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which had recently been unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Among the typical litany of complaints, critics claim that the bill lacks due process. Public Knowledge has posted a letter from NetCoalition opposing COICA, raising several concerns revolving around due process. The Competitive [...]

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Combating Online Infringement

Terry Hart • November 22, 2010 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

This past week, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA, S.3804). The bill is targeted toward websites whose central activity is dedicated to infringement. It allows for seizure of the domain names of such sites when they are located in the US, and it requires service providers, advertising [...]

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Enemies of Monopoly of Brain-product

Terry Hart • November 12, 2010 • Posted in Copyright history • Comments closed

A Manual of Musical Copyright for the Use of Music-Publishers and Artists, and of the Legal Profession was first published in 1905, and the full text is available on Google Books. It is perhaps the first treatise written to focus specifically on the law surrounding music publishing. While published music had been around for a [...]

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Drawing Distinctions

Terry Hart • November 11, 2010 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

Earlier this month, I wrote about the Copyright Principles Project, an independent initiative that presented twenty-five recommendations for reforming copyright law for the digital age. One of the reasons I felt it was worth mentioning was because, unlike many other reform efforts, the Copyright Principles Project included participants from a wide variety of perspectives: academics, [...]

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Kids and Kopyright

Terry Hart • November 8, 2010 • Posted in General • Comments closed

Media Law Prof Blog points out a recent paper that examines the attitudes and beliefs of youngsters about copyright: Youth, Creativity, and Copyright in the Digital Age, by John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, Miriam Simun, and Rosalie Fay Barnes. The abstract reads: New digital networked technologies enable users to participate in the consumption, distribution, and creation of content in ways [...]

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Can the Copyright Office Regulate?

Terry Hart • November 4, 2010 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

In my previous post about the Copyright Principles Project, I highlighted those proposals that recommend a greater role for the US Copyright Office. Whether or not the Copyright Office should take on a greater role is a subject that undoubtedly can generate plenty of discussion. But today, I want to look at a different issue: [...]

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Copyright Principles Project: Increasing the US Copyright Office’s Role

Terry Hart • November 1, 2010 • Posted in Copyright reform • Comments closed

On September 28, a group of leading copyright academics and practitioners released the Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform (full report [pdf] available here). According to the press release, the Project “attempts to ignite an informed debate about how to best balance the interests of copyright owners and users” by examining “several ways to improve [...]

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