A divided Supreme Court has held that works authored by legislatures or legislators in their legislative capacity are ineligible for copyright protection (Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.). The Copyright Act protects...more
4/30/2020
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On March 4, 2019, the Supreme Court held that copyright owners must wait to file an infringement suit until the Copyright Office has registered the work at issue. The decision in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v....more
3/5/2019
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Uniformity
The FCC has released the final version of its Restoring Internet Freedom decision, which largely reverses the 2015 Open Internet order and the "network neutrality" rules adopted in that order. Since the FCC had released a...more
On December 14, 2017, the FCC adopted a decision reversing nearly all of the significant elements of its 2015 Open Internet Order and the "network neutrality" rules from that order, retaining only the requirement that...more
Last November, Cooley issued an alert advising that the Copyright Office had implemented a new rule requiring all service providers sheltering under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor to re-register in an...more
The Copyright Office is imposing new registration requirements on service providers in order to maintain their safe harbor protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). The new rule, effective as of December...more
A recent letter by the US Copyright Office has raised questions about the FCC's proposal to adopt new rules intended to open up the market for cable television set-top boxes and what actions the FCC ultimately will take. The...more
This morning, a 2-1 majority of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision upholding the 2015 Open Internet Order, which re-adopted the FCC's network neutrality rules and...more
Today, the FCC released its 400-page report (including 80 pages of dissents from the two Republican commissioners) in the network neutrality proceeding. Despite speculation that some of the rules might not have been revealed...more
In broad terms, the FCC brought back the rules that the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned in early 2014, and justified its legal authority to do so by reclassifying broadband Internet access as a common carrier service subject...more
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has released his proposal for the network neutrality order the FCC is expected to adopt at its open meeting on February 26. ...more