It is Time to Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom on Patent Trolls (SIIA Digital Discourse)
SIIA’s Keith Kupferschmid says the time has arrived for Congress to re-visit the patent troll problem and consider new legislative initiatives aimed at addressing the continuing problem.
Judge Says Copyright Owners Can’t Sue Google’s YouTube as a Group (Reuters)
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton denied a motion to certify a worldwide class of copyright owners in a long-running lawsuit over videos and music posted on YouTube without their permission.
Berkeley-Led Group Central to U.S. Copyright Review (Managing Intellectual Property)
As the U.S. Congress embarks on a sweeping review of copyright law, the Copyright Principles Project (CPP) has emerged as a powerful voice in Washington. All five witnesses at the first in a series of congressional hearings on overhauling copyright law are members of the group.
Piracy: A Not-So-Victimless Crime (Digtriad.com)
U.S. postal inspectors arrested a man accused of selling pirated copies of Adobe software on eBay and making as much as $42,000 a month off the sales.
Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.