As mentioned earlier this week, Ludlow Music Inc., owner of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," is invoking copyright in an effort to silence JibJab's very funny "This Land" animated short (here is Ludlow's latest threat letter).
EFF has taken JibJab on as a client....

Bravo to the students @ Free Culture for today's spirited celebration of fair use in action. Check out the entirely legal art exhibit, served with a generous helping of much-appreciated levity:

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Sorry Barbie, it's a free country and everything on this site is protected...

During yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on S. 2560, the Inducing Infringements of Copyright Act, Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) made a few comments about the concerns EFF raised about the Act in our mock complaint against Apple, Toshiba, and C-NET over the iPod. Sadly,...

Edward Felten is hosting an impromptu discussion in the comments section of his weblog as readers tune in to the webcast of the Induce Act hearing.
Bonus: Testimony by Marybeth Peters (PDF) of the Copyright Office, who'd like to...

Siva Vaidhyanthan in today's Salon, on the IICA/Induce Act: "While industry lobbyists swear they would go only after the proprietors of peer-to-peer services, they don't have much credibility. After all, they have already taken the makers of videorecorders and MP3 players to court. Why wouldn't they do...

By Cindy Cohn
Over the past week we've seen several media stories suggesting that the electronic voting machine issue is partisan.
While there are certainly folks who would like to portray it that way, including Jeb Bush and unfortunately last week, the Washington Post, it's...

James Grimmelmann @ LawMeme has a post demonstrating the sheer prolific magnitude of Ernest Miller's thinking & writing on the IICA/Induce Act, and adds a few well chosen words of his own:

His coverage matters to lawyers, techies, copyfighters, and consumers. That is, everyone. Ignore it...