Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Oct 27, 2009
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On September 20, 2009, the New York Times reported that the heirs of Jack Kirby, the author of works including X-Men, the Hulk, and Fantastic Four had sent out 45 notices of copyright termination to Marvel, Disney, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and others who have been making films and other forms of entertainment based on the comic cartoon characters. Under Copyright law, Kirby's heirs could regain copyrights to some of the characters as early as 2014. In light of these events, I thought it would be helpful to highlight a few points with respect to the law regarding terminations of copyright transfers and assignments.
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Jun 1, 2009
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, could become the first justice with a background in Intellectual Property law, as well as a history of precedent-setting rulings on cyberlaw issues. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Sotomayor was a private IP lawyer, and her cyberlaw decisions ranged from copyrights in a digitized world to warrantless computer searches, so-called click-wrap agreements and the Patriot Act.
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Apr 14, 2009
There has been a lot of discussion related to ways to stop piracy of digital media.
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Feb 1, 2009
Jennifer Yoon moderated a panel at Harvard Business School entitled "Young Entrepreneurs - Starting Young, Staying Successful" at the startsomething2009 entrepeneurs conference.
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Jan 29, 2009
Google just announced a new open platform called Measurement Lab (M-Lab), which includes three publicly accessible tools, including the Network Diagnostic Tool, Network Path and Application Diagnosis, and Glasnost. Glasnost will "test whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled" on your broadband connection.
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Jan 23, 2009
The incoming Obama administration is asked to weigh in on what could be the most important copyright case since the United States Supreme Court ruling in 1984 involving VCRs and the public's right to record copyrighted movies at home.
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon
on Jan 23, 2009
On January 22, 2009, the public will be able to log on to the internet and watch the motions hearing in the RIAA's lawsuit against Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum and others.
