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Copyright & Modding In The Modern Gamespace, Josephine Railston
Copyright & Modding In The Modern Gamespace, Josephine Railston
Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
In the modern gamespace, modding has become an excellent opportunity for video game enthusiasts to express their creativity and love for a game; but what happens when that passion is stifled by a major company? My poster presentation will examine the ethics behind modding and ROM hacking, from both the perspectives of major video game corporations as well as their fanbase at large. We will analyze this issue using the case study of Pokémon Prism, a Pokémon Crystal ROM hack, which was canceled days prior to its release following a cease and desist by Nintendo. More specifically, we will investigate …
Pocket Castles And Custom Skin: Championing Transparency In The Monetization Of User-Generated Content In Video Games, Jakob Stokes
Pocket Castles And Custom Skin: Championing Transparency In The Monetization Of User-Generated Content In Video Games, Jakob Stokes
Cybaris®
No abstract provided.
Manufacturers Beware Of Right To Repair: An Analysis Of The Resurgence Of Right To Repair & The Legal Consequences Of Third-Party Access To Embedded Software In The ‘Internet Of Things’ Era, Lindsey Barringto
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
On March 18, 2019 California became the twentieth state to introduce Right to Repair legislation in one year. The policy objectives for Right to Repair are straightforward: advocate for federal and state laws that make it easier for owners of consumer goods to ix a device when it breaks rather than relying on the Apple store. However, since 2014, small farmers have joined the Right to Repair movement because major manufacturers, such as John Deere, have consolidated dealer networks in response to the consolidation of farming in the past decade.
While proponents for Right to Repair legislation argue that consumers …
The Hydraulics Of Intermediary Liability Regulation, Ben Horton
The Hydraulics Of Intermediary Liability Regulation, Ben Horton
Cleveland State Law Review
The intermediary immunity created by Section 230 probably protects claims based on the non-legal harms of hate speech and misinformation as well as a European-style proportionality system of content moderation better than a more “legalized” intermediary liability regime would. Contrasting the existing non-copyright content moderation systems with empirical research on the effects of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) shows that a comprehensive regulation of content moderation would incentivize the moderation of defamation and negligence claims at the expense of these important non-legal claims and incentivize a homogenous, categorical approach to content moderation. Furthermore, empirical research on the effects of …
Intimate Images And Authors’ Rights: Non- Consensual Disclosure And The Copyright Disconnect, Meghan Sali
Intimate Images And Authors’ Rights: Non- Consensual Disclosure And The Copyright Disconnect, Meghan Sali
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
This article responds to a brand of legal realpolitik that says using property law to respond to the non-consensual distribution of intimate images (NCDII) is appropriate and even necessary, because its remedial frameworks are well developed and provide the relief that is often most sought after by targets of an assault: the immediate removal of photos from online platforms. While some targets are not considered the ‘‘authors’’ of their intimate images, most of the images that are the subject of NCDII are selfies, taken by the target themselves. In these cases, that person rightfully owns the copyright in those images …
When Copyright Law Meet Anonymous Street Art, Breanna M. Moe
When Copyright Law Meet Anonymous Street Art, Breanna M. Moe
Marquette Intellectual Property & Innovation Law Review
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Boss Battle: Twitch Vs Proposed Amendments To The Knowledge Standard Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Zachary Messick
Boss Battle: Twitch Vs Proposed Amendments To The Knowledge Standard Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Zachary Messick
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), indirect theories of liability such as vicarious liability and contributory infringement have been inconsistently applied, leading the Copyright Office to recommend lowering the knowledge standard and increasing potential liability for Online Service Providers (OSPs). In this note, I will discuss the histories of vicarious liability and contributory infringement, which demonstrate that courts have correctly applied the standards under the DMCA. Further, through a case-study of Twitch, an up-and-coming streaming website, I will discuss how the proposed amendments drive against the policies underlying the indirect theories of liability and would destroy OSPs like Twitch. …
Rethinking Copyright Harmonization, Clark Asay
Rethinking Copyright Harmonization, Clark Asay
Indiana Law Journal
For nearly half a century, the United States has been one of the main proponents of harmonizing the world’s copyright laws. To that end, the U.S. government has worked diligently to persuade (and, in some cases, bully) most of the world’s countries to adopt copyright standards that resemble those found in the United States. The primary reason for this push to harmonize the world’s copyright laws is simple: the United States has long been a net exporter of copyrighted works, and so the U.S. government has sought to ensure that other countries provide U.S. authors with the same economic rights …
The Best Laid Plans: How Dmca Sec. 1201 Went Awry, Smothering Competition And Creating Giants,And Where We Go Now, Tyler Fabbri
The Best Laid Plans: How Dmca Sec. 1201 Went Awry, Smothering Competition And Creating Giants,And Where We Go Now, Tyler Fabbri
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act with the express intention of protecting the intellectual property of copyright holders from the growing threats of digital piracy and information sharing brought about by an increasingly digital society.
Among the law’s many provisions is §1201, which works to prohibit circumnavigation of digital protections copyright holders may put on protected works—in essence, innovators or competitors would be unable to develop technology or programs to bypass security measures put into place by primary creators. While this provision seems facially reasonable, it has effectively served as a means to quash adversarial interoperability.
Adversarial …
Copyright And Disability, Blake E. Reid
Copyright And Disability, Blake E. Reid
Publications
A vast array of copyrighted works—books, video programming, software, podcasts, video games, and more—remain inaccessible to people with disabilities. International efforts to adopt limitations and exceptions to copyright law that permit third parties to create and distribute accessible versions of books for people with print disabilities have drawn some attention to the role that copyright law plays in inhibiting the accessibility of copyrighted works. However, copyright scholars have not meaningfully engaged with the role that copyright law plays in the broader tangle of disability rights.
Introduction: Intelligent Entertainment: Shaping Policies On The Algorithmic Generation And Regulation Of Creative Works, Hannibal Travis
Introduction: Intelligent Entertainment: Shaping Policies On The Algorithmic Generation And Regulation Of Creative Works, Hannibal Travis
FIU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reaching Through The “Ghost Doxer:” An Argument For Imposing Secondary Liability On Online Intermediaries, Natalia Homchick
Reaching Through The “Ghost Doxer:” An Argument For Imposing Secondary Liability On Online Intermediaries, Natalia Homchick
Washington and Lee Law Review
Imagine you have decided to run for office, to speak out publicly against an injustice, to enter the job market, or even to join a new online forum. Now, imagine after starting your chosen endeavor, you go online to discover that someone who disagrees with your position posted your personal information on the internet and called for others to harass you. To make matters worse, you realize that you cannot determine who posted your personal data. You have been doxed. Because you cannot identify the person who posted your information, where can you turn for recourse? The next logical party …
You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Repair: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act’S Effect On Right-To-Repair Legislation, Daniel Moore
You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Repair: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act’S Effect On Right-To-Repair Legislation, Daniel Moore
Texas A&M Law Review
Consumers are keeping their electronic devices longer today than in the past because the prices of the devices have increased. Increased prices have culminated in more consumers needing their devices repaired. In turn, manufacturers use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a federal law, and digital rights management to force consumers to get their devices repaired by either the device manufacturer or one of its authorized repairers. In response, states have considered right-to-repair laws which require manufacturers to make repair tools, equipment, and software available to device owners and independent repair shops. While almost half of the country’s state legislatures have …
Convergence And Conflation In Online Copyright, Christopher A. Cotropia, James Gibson
Convergence And Conflation In Online Copyright, Christopher A. Cotropia, James Gibson
Law Faculty Publications
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is showing its age. Enacted in 1998, the DMCA succeeded in its initial goal of bringing clarity to wildly inconsistent judicial standards for online copyright infringement. But as time has passed, the Act has been overtaken—not by developments in technology, but by developments in copyright’s case law. Those cases are no longer as divergent as they were in the last millennium. Instead, over time the judicial standards and the statutory standards have converged, to the point where the differences between them are few.
At first glance, this convergence seems unproblematic. After all, uniformity was the …
"You'll Lol @ This Tweet": Copyright Protection For Hashtag Gamers, Alan Lacerra
"You'll Lol @ This Tweet": Copyright Protection For Hashtag Gamers, Alan Lacerra
Florida State University Law Review
Hashtag games combine the fun of quick, incongruous exchanges with the work of creative expression and do so online through microblogging, predominantly (if not exclusively) on Twitter. Currently, hashtag-game participants face two main obstacles to copyright protection for their fun expressions: the expressions' brevity and Twitter's terms of service. To protect the copyrights that Internet users acquire by participating in hashtag games, courts should focus on the creativity rather than the brevity of the resulting expressions. Furthermore, Congress should amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent Internet service providers, like Twitter, from encroaching on users' rights through broad …
Intellectual Property Law Gets Experienced, Victoria Phillips
Intellectual Property Law Gets Experienced, Victoria Phillips
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Introduction: A decade ago, in Clinical Legal Education and the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law, I described with my faculty colleagues our motivations for launching a public interest intellectual property law clinic at the American University Washington College of Law. That article introduced our goals and framework for a pioneering clinic framed around a variety of live-client student representations performed under close faculty supervision, weekly case rounds focusing on issues experienced directly by the students in their representations, and a seminar built around a year-long lawyering simulation addressing the public interest dimensions of intellectual property. In that article, we …
Higher Education And The Dmca, James Gibson, Christopher A. Cotropia
Higher Education And The Dmca, James Gibson, Christopher A. Cotropia
Law Faculty Publications
The nearly twenty-year history of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions has been marked by criticism from content owners, online service providers, and end users. Content owners complain about the cost of monitoring online content and sending takedown notices. Online service providers complain about the cost of receiving and processing the notices. And end users complain about their legitimate use of copyrighted works being subject to DMCA takedown. Colleges and universities have been at the forefront of this controversy; as providers of online services to their students, they have been a focus of both Congress and copyright owners. …
Music Modernization And The Labyrinth Of Streaming, Mary Lafrance
Music Modernization And The Labyrinth Of Streaming, Mary Lafrance
Scholarly Works
The shift from record sales to music streaming has revolutionized the music industry. The federal copyright regime, which is rooted in a system of economic rewards based largely on sales, has been slow to adapt. This has impaired the ability of copyright law to channel appropriate royalties to songwriters, music publishers, and recording artists when the streaming of their works displaces record sales. The Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act of 2018 addresses some of the most significant flaws in the current system. At the same time, it creates significant ambiguities and leaves some existing issues unresolved.
Computerized Takedowns: A Balanced Approach To Protect Fair Uses And The Rights Of Copyright Owners, Steven M. Davis
Computerized Takedowns: A Balanced Approach To Protect Fair Uses And The Rights Of Copyright Owners, Steven M. Davis
Roger Williams University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Struggle Over Webcasting--Where Is The Stream Carrying Us?, Susan A. Russell
The Struggle Over Webcasting--Where Is The Stream Carrying Us?, Susan A. Russell
Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology
No abstract provided.
Shifting The Burden To Internet Service Providers: The Validity Of Subpoena Power Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Matt Sellers
Shifting The Burden To Internet Service Providers: The Validity Of Subpoena Power Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Matt Sellers
Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology
No abstract provided.
The Quandary Of Being Interactive: The Impact Of Arista Records V. Launch Media On The Viability Of Webcasting Services, Todd E. Saucedo
The Quandary Of Being Interactive: The Impact Of Arista Records V. Launch Media On The Viability Of Webcasting Services, Todd E. Saucedo
Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology
No abstract provided.
Towards An Effective Regime Against Online Copyright Infringement In India, Ashwin Ramakrishnan
Towards An Effective Regime Against Online Copyright Infringement In India, Ashwin Ramakrishnan
LLM Theses
With Internet usage on the rise, it is important for India to establish an effective regulatory regime to combat piracy and mass copyright infringement online. This thesis argues that, in the face of unique legal and cultural challenges specific to India, present laws in the country have failed to do so. Unless and until these challenges are met it will be difficult to have an effective mechanism that deals with online copyright infringement. Countries like the United States, Canada, Ireland, and France have all adopted different regulatory models. However, this thesis argues that each not only have significant limitations on …
Internet Safe Harbors And The Transformation Of Copyright Law, Matthew Sag
Internet Safe Harbors And The Transformation Of Copyright Law, Matthew Sag
Faculty Publications & Other Works
This Article explores the potential displacement of substantive copyright law in the increasingly important online environment. In 1998, Congress enacted a system of intermediary safe harbors as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The internet safe harbors and the associated system of notice-and-takedown fundamentally changed the incentives of platforms, users, and rightsholders in relation to claims of copyright infringement. These different incentives interact to yield a functional balance of copyright online that diverges markedly from the experience of copyright law in traditional media environments. More recently, private agreements between rightsholders and large commercial internet platforms have been made …
Where's The Fair Use? The Takedown Of Let's Play And Reaction Videos On Youtube And The Need For Comprehensive Dmca Reform, Jessica Vogele
Where's The Fair Use? The Takedown Of Let's Play And Reaction Videos On Youtube And The Need For Comprehensive Dmca Reform, Jessica Vogele
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Gif Gaffe: How Big Sports Ignored Lenz And Used The Dmca To Chill Free Speech On Twitter, Andrew T. Warren
Gif Gaffe: How Big Sports Ignored Lenz And Used The Dmca To Chill Free Speech On Twitter, Andrew T. Warren
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Many major sports leagues including the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and Ultimate Fighting Championship have consistently used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) to remove user-created GIFs, Vines, and related content that make use of the leagues’ copyrighted broadcast material on Twitter. This Article analyzes Twitter users’ right of fair use in the leagues’ copyrighted material, while suggesting that sports leagues and their agents may not be following the Ninth Circuit’s Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.decision, which requires copyright owners to consider fair use before submitting DMCA takedown notices. Sports leagues’ protocol and actions towards GIFs and Vines …
Fair Use’S Unfinished Business, Rebecca Tushnet
Fair Use’S Unfinished Business, Rebecca Tushnet
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Edelman V. N2h2: Copyright Infringement? Reverse Engineering Of Filtering Software Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Cathy Nowlen
Edelman V. N2h2: Copyright Infringement? Reverse Engineering Of Filtering Software Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Cathy Nowlen
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
How To Get The Mona Lisa In Your Home Without Breaking The Law: Painting A Picture Of Copyright Issues With Digitally Accessible Museum Collections, Lara Ortega
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
Making Others Do The Work: Secondary Liability And The Creation Of A General Obligation To The Copyright Industries, Liam O'Melinn
Making Others Do The Work: Secondary Liability And The Creation Of A General Obligation To The Copyright Industries, Liam O'Melinn
Akron Intellectual Property Journal
This Essay argues that the growth of secondary liability actions represents a larger attempt to impose a general obligation to protect the copyrights of the content industries, and that the full significance of secondary liability cannot be understood unless it is considered alongside other manifestations of this tendency. This Essay contends that secondary liability takes on a much greater meaning when it is seen as closely related to other efforts in extending responsibility for protecting copyrights: in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in various measures intended to increase the government's responsibility for copyright enforcement, in attempts to make universities accountable …