Restatement of the Law, Copyright Posts
The Restatement of Copyright Law: Past, Present, and Future
The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts has published a special issue on the Restatement of Copyright Law. Below is an index of the issue (Vol. 44 No. 3), published in April 2021. The full issue is available online.
Restatement of the Law, Copyright
The following is the Foreword text from Tentative Draft No. 2. Of Restatement of the Law, Copyright. This draft will be presented to ALI’s members at the 2021 Annual Meeting.
U.S. Copyright Office Issues an Interim Rule Related to the Music Modernization Act
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued an interim rule related to the protection of confidential information by the mechanical licensing collective and digital licensee coordinator, pursuant to the Musical Works Modernization Act, title I of the Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act.
Congress Creates New Small Claims Copyright Board, Stronger Criminal Penalties for Illicit Streaming
President Trump signed the bipartisan COVID-19 relief and government funding bill, which incorporated the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (“CASE Act”) that had been pending as part of H.R. 133, as well as legislation designed to increase criminal penalties for illicit streaming of copyright-protected content.
Opinion analysis: Sharply divided bench rejects Georgia’s copyright in annotations of Georgia statutes
The decision this morning in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org resolves a technical question of copyright law, the extent to which governmental authorities can copyright (and profit from) the materials that they create. The specific question here is the copyrightability of annotations that summarize, but are not part of, the state’s body of enforceable statutes.