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Class Cert. Vacated; Evaluate Google's 'Fair Use' Defense First
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Today was another bad day for the Author's Guild, the collective of copyright holders who are suing both the HathiTrust Digital Library and Google Books over...
True Threat or Political Speech? 2nd Circuit Rules on Free Speech
By Gabriella Khorasanee, JD | Last updated on
Let's say a blogger doesn't agree with your political views and writes a blog post saying you "deserve to be killed." Not great news, but the First Amendment...
United States v. Windsor: SCOTUS Affirms, DOMA Struck Down
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Edith Windsor, 83, spent 44 years with her late spouse Thea Spyer. Though they were engaged in 1967, they were not legally married until 2007, when the couple...
NY Media Intern Battle Headed for Interlocutory Appeal to 2nd Cir
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Is this the most interesting employment law battle happening in the country today? We certainly think so. There are the unpaid Black Swan movie production...
Amicus Briefs Piling Up in HathiTrust Digital Library Appeal
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Imagine e-book utopia. Billions of books, nearly every significant work ever written, available electronically through an electronic library. Want to flip...
'Ghost Rider' Rides Back to Court; Hopefully Not to Theatres
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Anyone remember that pair of Nicholas Cage abominations masquerading as "superhero films" from a few years back? Yeah. Those were awful. They also led to this...