Who should derive revenue from remote DVR systems? According to a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the revenue should not go to the content providers. This decision, grounded in three very narrow interpretations of the Copyright Act, works a shift of potentially significant revenue away from content providers. Hopefully, it will be challenged and reversed on rehearing.
Continue Reading...I hope not, but that is one risk created by the Supreme Court’s decision in the Ebay case and by the actions of some courts who have denied permanent injunctions in successful infringement cases. But the fact that a permanent injunction does not issue after a judgment of infringement does not mean that the infringer (by losing the case) obtains a right to use the patent owner’s property in the future. It simply means that the court declined to add the coercive force of an injunction to the statutory right to exclude as to future infringing conduct.
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Many industries function under technological standards that shape the technology, the products, and the focus of competition. But standards-setting groups have become competition focuses themselves, such as in the debate about “open document” versus “open xml” as a standard.
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We wake up one morning and discover that a question we have been asking for the last decade or two may now be the wrong one. The question was: how can we use law to enable businesses to use e-commerce? The question now seems to be: how can we shape law to support e-commerce without over-regulating it?
Continue Reading...Actually, contracts control. I can have a privilege to do something, but then can waive that privilege. So too the privilege to make limited copies for purposes of some forms of reverse engineering.
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Professor Gershowitz earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2001 and his B.A. in political science and criminal justice from...More...
Professor Gidi joined the Law Center faculty in 2005 after teaching two years at the University of Detroit Mercy and several years as an Adjunct Profe...More...
Darren Bush is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Education background includes: B.A. (Economics), 1991, Californ...More...
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Professor Dow joined the University of Houston Law Center faculty in 1988. He graduated with a B.A. in History from Rice University, and earned his M....More...
Professor Hawkins joined the University of Houston Law Center in 2008 after clerking for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of...More...
Professor Paust has written several books and over 150 articles and essays addressing a wide array of international legal issues. He is often asked to...More...
Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 2007, Professor Hill was an associate with a Washington, D.C., law firm, worked for two commercial banks an...More...
Laura E. Oren is the Law Foundation Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the Law Center. She holds a Ph.D. in...More...
Professor Griffin joined the Law Center faculty in 2002. Before moving to Houston, she taught both law and theology at several schools and clerked for...More...
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