Intellectual Property and Open Movements (IP&OM)

Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

A Setback for Resellers of Digital Products; New York Times, 4/1/13

Ben Sisario, New York Times; A Setback for Resellers of Digital Products: "The case has been closely watched as a test of whether the first sale doctrine — the legal principle that someone who owns a copy of a copyrighted work, like a book or album, is free to resell it — can be applied to digital goods. In an order dated Saturday, Judge Richard J. Sullivan of United States District Court in Manhattan ruled that ReDigi was liable for copyright infringement, and seemed entirely unmoved by ReDigi’s arguments."

Saturday, February 18, 2012

ReDigi, the ‘Used’ Digital Music Store, Stays Alive; New York Times, 2/7/12

Ben Sisario, New York Times; ReDigi, the ‘Used’ Digital Music Store, Stays Alive:

"ReDigi, a marketplace for “used” digital music that is being sued for copyright infringement by Capitol Records, fended off a motion in federal court on Monday that would have shut it down."