The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick (2009)
Although Paul Courant presents the Google Books Settlement as a win-win-win, Pamela Samuelson sees trouble ahead if it is approved.
The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick (2009)
Although Paul Courant presents the Google Books Settlement as a win-win-win, Pamela Samuelson sees trouble ahead if it is approved.
The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick (2009)
Although Paul Courant presents the Google Books Settlement as a win-win-win, Pamela Samuelson sees trouble ahead if it is approved.
The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick (2009)
Although Paul Courant presents the Google Books Settlement as a win-win-win, Pamela Samuelson sees trouble ahead if it is approved.
What Effects Do Legal Rules Have on Service Innovation (2009)
Intellectual property, contract, and tort laws likely have effects on levels of innovation in service sectors of the economy. Legal rules that are too strong or too strict may discourage investment...
Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform (2009)
Samuelson, Pamela, Wheatland, Tara
U.S. copyright law gives successful plaintiffs who promptly registered their works the ability to elect to receive an award of statutory damages, which can be granted in any amount between $750 and...
Fair use has been invoked as a defense to claims of copyright infringement in a wide array of cases over the past thirty years, as when someone has drawn expression from an earlier work in order to...
Legally Speaking When is a " License Really a Sale (2009)
When you purchase a software package, the package will often inform you, that you are not the "owner" of a copy of it, but only a "licensee" whose entitlement to use the software is subject to...
Legally Speaking When is a " License Really a Sale (2009)
When you purchase a software package, the package will often inform you, that you are not the "owner" of a copy of it, but only a "licensee" whose entitlement to use the software is subject to...
The Strange Odyssey of Software Interfaces and Intellectual Property Law (2008)
This book chapter traces the strange odyssey of interfaces through various forms of intellectual property protection. Interface specifications were initially either public domain documents or...
Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability? (2008)
Many commentators and policymakers have recognized that patents on interfaces can be and sometimes have been exercised to block the development of interoperable technologies. Out of concern about the...
Copyright industries are hoping that digital rights management (DRM) technologies will prevent infringement of commercially valuable digital content, including music and movies. These industries have...
to pay money damages to AT&T for infringement of AT&T’s U.S. patent on a speech compression technique as to copies of the Windows operating system installed on computers made and sold...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in an important software patent case,
the U.S. Supreme Court’s (2008)
MGM is among the entertainment industry firms that sued Grokster, Streamcast,
Report A New View of Intellectual Property and (2008)
Randall Davis, Pamela Samuelson, Jerome Reichman
Software
42nd Annual Leary Lecture: Preliminary Thoughts on Copyright Reform (2007)
Professor Samuelson is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a contributing editor of communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, a past fellow of the John D. and...
42nd Annual Leary Lecture: Preliminary Thoughts on Copyright Reform (2007)
Professor Samuelson is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a contributing editor of communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, a past fellow of the John D. and...
Preliminary Thoughts on Copyright Reform (2007)
Myriad reasons can be proffered for undertaking a copyright reform project. For one thing, the current U.S. copyright law is way too long, now weighing at approximately two hundred pages long. The...
Why Copyright Law Excludes Systems and Processes from the Scope of Its Protection (2007)
Contrary to common perceptions, Baker v. Selden is neither the origin of the idea/expression distinction of U.S. copyright law, nor of the merger doctrine (which holds that if an idea is capable of...
How will the availability of information over the Internet affect authors and their readers and publishers? Decisions over access to electronic information are being made on national and...
Reichman, Jerome H., Dinwoodie, Graeme B., Samuelson, Pamela
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Enriching Discourse on Public Domains (2006)
"Part I provides a synopsis of thirteen conceptions of the public domain found in the law-review literature, explaining each, generally by reviewing its explication by its principal proponent or...
Preserving the Positive Functions of the Public Domain in Science (2004)
Science has advanced in part because data and scientific methodologies have traditionally not been subject to intellectual property protection. In recent years, intellectual property has played a...
Should Economics Play a Role in Copyright Law and Policy? (2003)
[Abstract] Given the utilitarian rationale for copyright and the economic incentives this law aims to create for investment in intellectual labor, it is somewhat surprising that economic analysis has...
Mapping the Digital Public Domain: Threats and Opportunities (2003)
From Introduction: "Whether the public domain is a virtual wasteland of undeserving detritus or the font of all new creation is the subject of some debate. Those who adhere to the former perspective...
Comments on the Proposed Defense and Federal Acquisition Regulations. (2002)
This paper compares and contrasts the software/data rights sections (Subpart 27.4) of the DoD procurement regulations (DoD FAR SUPP) and the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). The regulations...
This article of the Software Licensing Project of the SEI examines problems related to DoD procurement policy as reflected in the DoD acquisition regulations (DoD FAR SUPP). This article discusses...
The Department of Defense (DoD) is a major consumer of software. This software is used as a vital component of many systems ranging from those which perform relatively simple functions, such as...
Reverse engineering under siege (2002)
Reverse engineering has always been a lawful way to acquire trade secrets embodied in mass-marketed products. This longstanding principle—on which software engineers as well as engineers in other...
Digital Information, Digital Networks, and the Public Domain (2001)
From Introduction: "Whether the public domain is a virtual wasteland of undeserving detritus or the font of all new creation is the subject of some debate. Those who adhere to the former perspective...
Samuelson,Pamela, Deasy,Kevin, Martin,Anne C.
This report recommends three distinct regulatory strategies for addressing difficulties the Department of Defense (DoD) has been experiencing with respect to legal issues related to software...
Intellectual Property Protection for Software. (1998)
Samuelson, Pamela, Deasy, Kevin
This module provides an overview of the U.S. intellectual property laws that form the framework within which legal rights in software are created, allocated, and enforced. The primary forms of...
Intellectual Property Rights in Data? (1997)
Reichman, Jerome H., Samuelson, Pamela
The Authors trace the evolution of hybrid intellectual property rights protecting the contents of noncopyrightable databases from early European Commission proposals sounding in unfair competition...
Intellectual Property Rights in Data? (1997)
Reichman, Jerome H., Samuelson, Pamela
The Authors trace the evolution of hybrid intellectual property rights protecting the contents of noncopyrightable databases from early European Commission proposals sounding in unfair competition...
Intellectual Property Rights in Data? (1997)
Reichman, Jerome H., Samuelson, Pamela
The Authors trace the evolution of hybrid intellectual property rights protecting the contents of noncopyrightable databases from early European Commission proposals sounding in unfair competition...
Is information property? (Legally Speaking) (1991)
"On one side of the battle over freedom of information are people who believe that sharing information with other interested people is a good thing even if the information comes from someone who does...
Pamela Samuelson, Robert J. Glushko
Copyright law is being applied to works in digital form. The special character of digital media will inevitably require some adjustments in the copyright model if digital libraries and hypertext...
Survey on the Look and Feel Lawsuits (1990)
Pamela Samuelson, Robert Glushko
The software copyright look and feel lawsuits have created a climate of uncertainty in the user interface design field [3, 41. Although individ-uals may have opinions about how these lawsuits should...
Pamela Samuelson, Kevin Deasy, Anne C. Martin, Karl H. Shingler
The ideas and findings in this report should not be construed as an official DoD position. It is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange.
Toward a New Politics of Intellectual Property (0000)
The article focuses on moves to bring more stringent copyright law for the high technology industries. According to the author, public has got used to the idea that copyright does not concern them....
Intellectual property for an information age: introduction (0000)
Intellectual property law has suffused the consciousness of computing professionals for the past decade or so. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the "look and feel" lawsuits sent shock waves...
Does Information Really Have to be Licensed? (0000)
This article reports on the importance of licensing of packaged softwares. The licensing agreement forms that come along with buying of computer softwares, are often glanced as documents that...
What's at Stake in MGM v. Grokster? (0000)
MGM is among the entertainment industry firms that sued Grokster, Streamcast, and Sharman Networks for knowingly contributing to copyright infringement by end users of their peer-to-peer file-sharing...
Good News and Bad News on the Intellectual Property Front. (0000)
The article discusses three legal initiatives, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Collections of Information Antipiracy Act and Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code, which are all responses...
Why the Anticircumvention Regulations Need Revision. (0000)
This article focuses on the need for revision of the anticircumvention regulations. The U.S. was an integral part of the struggle over the antcircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium...
Encoding the Law into Digital Libraries. (0000)
The author evaluates the "intricate architecture" of intellectual property rights and how it reflects changes in the technical achievements. She focuses on the legal constraints digital library...
The Never-Ending Struggle for Balance. (0000)
The article emphasizes on desirability of balance in intellectual property law. Struggle for balance in the law is never ending. Even after one important battle for balance has been successfully won,...
Embedding Technical Self-Help in Licensed Software. (0000)
Some software developers want to use "technical self-help." They want to stop further use of licensed software after a failure, for example, to make license payments. Technical self-help might...
Regulating Technical Design. (0000)
The article presents information related to the decision of the U The article presents information related to the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the MGM v. Grokster case. In the...
Copyrighting Standards. (0000)
The article discusses legal issues surrounding copyright of standards by Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) The article discusses legal issues surrounding copyright of standards by...
The Dead Souls of the Google Book Search Settlement (0000)
Why the Google Book Search settlement agreement under consideration could result in an extensive restructuring of the book industry.
The article presents information related to the decision of the U The article presents information related to the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the MGM v. Grokster case. In the...
The article discusses legal issues surrounding copyright of standards by Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) The article discusses legal issues surrounding copyright of standards by...
Toward a New Politics of Intellectual Property
The article focuses on moves to bring more stringent copyright law for the high technology industries. According to the author, public has got used to the idea that copyright does not concern them....
Intellectual property for an information age: introduction
Intellectual property law has suffused the consciousness of computing professionals for the past decade or so. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the "look and feel" lawsuits sent shock waves...
Does Information Really Have to be Licensed?
This article reports on the importance of licensing of packaged softwares. The licensing agreement forms that come along with buying of computer softwares, are often glanced as documents that...
What's at Stake in MGM v. Grokster?
MGM is among the entertainment industry firms that sued Grokster, Streamcast, and Sharman Networks for knowingly contributing to copyright infringement by end users of their peer-to-peer file-sharing...
Good News and Bad News on the Intellectual Property Front.
The article discusses three legal initiatives, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Collections of Information Antipiracy Act and Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code, which are all responses...
Why the Anticircumvention Regulations Need Revision.
This article focuses on the need for revision of the anticircumvention regulations. The U.S. was an integral part of the struggle over the antcircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium...
Encoding the Law into Digital Libraries.
The author evaluates the "intricate architecture" of intellectual property rights and how it reflects changes in the technical achievements. She focuses on the legal constraints digital library...
The Never-Ending Struggle for Balance.
The article emphasizes on desirability of balance in intellectual property law. Struggle for balance in the law is never ending. Even after one important battle for balance has been successfully won,...
Embedding Technical Self-Help in Licensed Software.
Some software developers want to use "technical self-help." They want to stop further use of licensed software after a failure, for example, to make license payments. Technical self-help might...
Many national intellectual property laws contain provisions that reflect cultural values and have trade significance. Although cultural value defenses have generally been rejected by GATT and WTO...
The Dead Souls of the Google Book Search Settlement
Why the Google Book Search settlement agreement under consideration could result in an extensive restructuring of the book industry.