Copyright vs. Conscience: Lawyering Up Isn’t Always the Right Move; PetaPixel, August 21, 2018

Blair Bunting, PetaPixel; Copyright vs. Conscience: Lawyering Up Isn’t Always the Right Move

"You read stories about photographers going after copyright abuse all the time, and it’s nearly always justified. In this case, I hope you can agree with me that seeking monetary compensation through legal recourse was not the right move. Sometimes you have to step back and remember that this may be a business, but it’s a business that relies on people. Once in a while, you have to remember that everyone featured in a photograph is a human, and as such all deserve compassion.

Rest in peace, Old Man."

A Nexus of Fan Culture and IP: Steel City Con Cosplay Pics...AND the Real McCoy--err, Eden; Steel City Con, April 13-15, 2018

Kip Currier, "A Nexus of Fan Culture and IP:
Steel City Con Cosplay Pics...AND the Real McCoy Eden": 

Chewbacca and Frenemies
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Jurassic Park ranger "Show & Tell"
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Star Wars Families: They're Just Like Us!
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

3 Jawas and a Stormtrooper walk into a Bar...
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Holy Sith!
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

R2D2 chillin' at Steel City Con
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Black Sheep of the R2D2 Clan

Enter the Marvel Heroes...
Captain America: The First Avenger
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Spider-Man striking a pose
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Don't Mess with Cap and Ms. Marvel
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

(Hey, Phoenix....We Told You--No Avengers v. X-Men dustup right now...the Disney/Fox merger HASN'T been approved yet!)
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

And at the other side of the Thunderdome...Enter the DC heroes...
(Green) Arrow and Black Canary
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

The 1st Flash....Jay Garrick
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Clark Kent and Zatanna
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

The Joker...sporting REALLY good hair product!
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Shades of a DC Marvel meet cute?...
--"Joker, say Hello to Silk"
--"Silk...meet Joker"
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

"Fox and Friends" 2.0...
It's "Flash and Friends"
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Newt Scamander...Have Wand Will Travel
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

A magnificent Maleficent
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

"Uh, guys...I'm here for the Game of Thrones Season 8 Extras Audition..."

James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Freddy Krueger (...and Frozen's Elsa in the back left. Yikes!)
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Michael Myers
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Kylo Ren, Negan, and Lucille
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Moose
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

King Ezekiel (AKA "not your king", "not your majesty", "just some guy") sans Shiva...
"Excuse me...Has anyone seen a really stealthy Bengal Tiger around here?..."
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

Seeing double...2 Jeannies
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

AND the REAL Jeannie herself...Miss Barbara Eden
James "Kip" Currier (c) 2018

32nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference April 4-6, 2017, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA

Kip Currier: 

Attending 32nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference

April 4-6, 2017, 

Crystal Gateway Marriott, 

Arlington, VA

Sessions and events for Day 2, Thursday, April 6:

Thursday, April 6

7:30 am – 5:00 pm	Registration
7:00 am – 8:15 am	Women in IP Law Breakfast
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Patent: AIA Trials Before the PTAB
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Trademark: Shush - Are We Permitted to Say...?
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Copyright: Are The Times A-Changin' in Copyright Law?
10:15 am – 11:45 am	Patent: Patent Year in Review
10:15 am – 11:45 am	Trademark: Here Comes the Judge: Mock Preliminary Injunction
10:15 am – 11:45 am	Copyright: DMCA 101: Post-Lenz
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Keynote Speaker Luncheon Featuring: Maureen K. Ohlhausen · Commissioner · Federal Trade Commission · Washington, DC
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm	Specialty: The New Landscape of Trade Secrets
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm	Specialty: The (Gold) Stars Realigned: Post Brexit UK
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm	Specialty/Ethics: Ethics in IP: Interactive Round Tables
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Specialty/Patent: What Makes a Valuable IP Portfolio?
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Specialty: All the Crime We Cannot See
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Specialty/Ethics: Duty of Loyalty: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest in IP

32nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference April 4-6, 2017, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA

Kip Currier: 

Attending 32nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference

April 4-6, 2017, 

Crystal Gateway Marriott, 

Arlington, VA

Sessions and events for Day 1, Wednesday, April 5:

Wednesday, April 5

7:00 am – 5:00 pm	Registration
7:15 am – 8:30 am	Conference Connections New Members · First-Time Attendees · Young Lawyers
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Patent: Ten Lessons for Patent Prosecutors from Litigation
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Trademark: Get Ready for Cuba!
8:30 am – 10:00 am	Copyright: Legal Compliance... I Choose You!
10:15 am – 11:45 am	Patent: Ask the Office: Hot Topics from the US Patent and Trademark Office
10:15 am – 11:45 am	Trademark: Gripe Sites and Takedown Notices
10:15 am – 11:45 am	Copyright: Copyright 2016 at a Gallop
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Mark T. Banner Awards Luncheon
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm	Patent: Save the Date: Priority Practice Points
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm	Trademark: The USPTO Speaks: An Update from the USPTO and TTAB
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm	Copyright: Securitizing of Artists' and Athletes' Careers
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Specialty: Implicit in Your Practice
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Trademark/Copyright: Not in My Backyard: Blocking Infringement at the Real and Virtual Border
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Specialty: Cannabis: Examination of IP
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Reception: Opportunities for Publishing with the ABA-IPL Section
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm	Sponsor Reception
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm	Conference Reception: Taking it Back...To the 80s
9:30 pm – 10:30 pm	LGBT Diversity Dessert Reception

Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle; Ars Technica, 2/11/17

David Kravets, Ars Technica; 

Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle

"Google successfully made its case to a jury last year that its use of Java APIs in Android was "fair use." A San Francisco federal jury rejected Oracle's claim that the mobile system infringed Oracle's copyrights.

But Oracle isn't backing down. Late Friday, the company appealed the high-profile verdict to a federal appeals court."

The most dramatic patent and copyright cases of 2016; Ars Technica, 12/30/16

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica; 

The most dramatic patent and copyright cases of 2016:

"Many of the biggest legal disputes in technology relate to "intellectual property," a broad term used for laws relating to everything from copyrights to patents, trademarks to trade secrets. This year saw significant changes in the copyright and patent landscapes. "Patent trolls" who sue technologists for fun and profit got smacked down by courts more often—and harder—than ever before. At the same time, universities were filing patent lawsuits at an increased rate, and often winning.

In the copyright realm, the Oracle v. Google trial dominated the spring. A jury was left to decide the murky rules about when using an API could be "fair use." That legal uncertainty led to the two tech giants clashing over the ethics of each others' business practices and the history of the smartphone industry.

In two very different cases in 2016, copyright issues led to criminal charges being filed. US authorities are seeking to extradite and put on trial a man named Artem Vaulin, who they say made $16 million annually by running a massive online storehouse of pirated films and songs. And more than three years after they were condemned by a federal judge, lawyers behind a vast array of copyright lawsuits, a firm known as Prenda Law, were arrested and accused of fraud. Here's a look back at 2016's most dramatic IP cases."

FAN-MADE "MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE" TRAILER IS INHUMANLY EPIC; Comic Book Resources, 7/12/16

Brandon Staley, Comic Book Resources; FAN-MADE "MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE" TRAILER IS INHUMANLY EPIC:

"This fan-made trailer for a fictitious “Marvel Ultimate Alliance” movie will have you wondering less about "Who would win in a fight between…," and more about, "Man, how cool would this team-up be?"

The trailer, crafted by YouTube user and veteran fan-film creatorAlex [sic] Luthor, takes on the moniker of the video game series by the same name to present a supercut of Marvel characters in film throughout the years, edited to appear as though they are all sharing the screen for one ensemble super-hero movie to end them all."

With Corbis Sale, Tiananmen Protest Images Go to Chinese Media Company; New York Times, 1/27/16

Mike McPhate, New York Times; With Corbis Sale, Tiananmen Protest Images Go to Chinese Media Company:

"Corbis, the photography archive owned by Bill Gates that includes some of the most famous pictures ever made, has sold its image and licensing division to a Chinese company.

The sale gives the new owner, Visual China Group, control over photographs of immense cultural and commercial value — Marilyn Monroe on a subway grate, Rosa Parks on a bus, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue.

But it has been the transfer of images from the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, an event that China’s Communist Party has aggressively blotted out of public view ever since, that has perhaps raised the most alarm."

Student-Built Apps Teach Colleges a Thing or Two; New York Times, 8/27/14

Ariel Kaminer, New York Times; Student-Built Apps Teach Colleges a Thing or Two:

"Amy Quispe, a summit-meeting organizer who was finishing her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, said struggles over campus data were so bad in some cases that “in a lot of ways students’ creativity was being stifled.”

Campus software developers say they see evidence that some colleges are becoming more comfortable with these collaborations, though as with any learning process, the path is not always a straight one.

Alex Sydell and William Li collaborated on a website, Ninja Courses, that made it easy for fellow students at Berkeley, and later at four more U.C. campuses, to compare every aspect of different courses as they built their schedule for the semester. Berkeley saw the website’s value and went so far as to pay them for their innovation. (“For students, the offer they gave us was very generous,” is all Mr. Li will say about the amount.)

But when their point person moved onto another job, Mr. Sydell says, they got a cease-and-desist letter accusing them, among other things, of violating U.C. copyrights by using the colleges’ names."

Toward a Go-To Gershwin Edition; New York Times, 9/13/13

Larry Rohter, New York Times; Toward a Go-To Gershwin Edition: "Is it to-may-to or to-mah-to? That question may be unanswerable, but an agreement between the estates of George and Ira Gershwin and the University of Michigan, to be announced on Sunday, aims to create the first definitive edition of the Gershwins’ entire joint body of work, including such landmark pieces as “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Porgy and Bess” and “An American in Paris.” The project, which is expected to require several decades of note-by-note and word-by-word analysis, will allow University of Michigan scholars unrestricted access to Gershwin scores, letters and compositional drafts, which are at the Library of Congress and will remain there. From that material, at least 35 volumes are to emerge, in both book and electronic form, with the goal of cementing the Gershwins’ reputation as uniquely American geniuses and providing a reliable road map for future performances... Marc Gershwin, a nephew of George Gershwin who administers his copyrights, said the need for an authoritative critical edition had become increasingly obvious to the heirs in recent years."

[Editorial] China and Intellectual Property; New York Times, 12/24/10

[Editorial] New York Times; China and Intellectual Property:

"The United States has made some progress at the World Trade Organization against the theft of intellectual property in China. But it must be much more vigilant and aggressive."

Google: Android doesn't infringe Oracle's copyrights; ArsTechnica.com, 11/13/10

Ryan Paul, ArsTechnica.com; Google: Android doesn't infringe Oracle's copyrights:

"Google has also weighed in on Oracle's more recent claim that Android's Java code infringes on Oracle's copyrights in addition to patents."

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/11/google-android-doesnt-infringe-oracles-copyrights.ars