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	<description>Intellectual Property Counsel for the Northwest and Beyond</description>
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		<title>No Expansion of Copyright without Clarification of Fair Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While many folks have articulated excellent arguments against PIPA and SOPA, these arguments almost exclusively focus on problems with the potential new powers of rightsholders. Here, however, John addresses one of the older (and more problematic) areas of current copyright law, the doctrine of fair use. &#8212; Dear Senators Wyden and Merkley &#38; Congressman Blumenauer: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=323&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Website owners liable for infringement by web designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've consistently warned website owners to be extremely careful with regards to content supplied by their web designers and developers. A recent ruling from a federal court in Ohio recently underscored that point by holding a website owner liable for infringement by its web designer.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=211&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic of Metadata in Copyright Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long advised my clients that one of the smartest things they can do to protect their work, after registering it with the U.S. Copyright Office, is to embed Copyright Management Information&#8211;especially proper copyright notice&#8211;into the metadata of any digital files of the work. Metadata is an incredibly powerful tool for copyright holders in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=210&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How not to pay lawyers to debate arcane points of law.</title>
		<link>http://meltzergrant.com/2009/06/01/how-not-to-pay-lawyers-to-debate-arcane-points-of-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting decision came down last week from the Supreme Court of Indiana regarding the question of who owns the copyright in a custom-built website: the web developer or the company for whom the website was built? The end result: well, that isn&#8217;t actually important to the moral to this story, but read on to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=194&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Use and Appropriation Art</title>
		<link>http://meltzergrant.com/2009/05/14/fair-use-and-appropriation-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 22:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I discussed in a previous post, the fair use doctrine provides an important check on the monopoly granted to copyright holders under copyright law. While copyright is a vitally important tool for content creators to protect their intellectual property, fair use has an equally important role in protecting “the progress of science and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=84&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Court finds transformative “Fair Use” in Korean War Memorial stamp.</title>
		<link>http://meltzergrant.com/2009/01/12/75/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: The case below was overturned on appeal&#8211;see this post for my analysis. I get a lot of fair use questions, and I have a hard time explaining the concept in anything less than a 45 minute conversation. I find it to be a fascinating concept: in the often black and white world of copyright [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=75&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“We Are Marshall” Judge: Facts Aren’t Copyrightable</title>
		<link>http://meltzergrant.com/2008/10/23/%e2%80%9cwe-are-marshall%e2%80%9d-judge-facts-aren%e2%80%99t-copyrightable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variety reported this week that a federal judge has dismissed a copyright infringement claim brought against the producers of the 2006 Warner Brothers film We Are Marshall by the makers of a 2000 documentary called Ashes to Glory, the Tragedy and Triumph of Marshall Football. For those who have attended my seminars or read my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=70&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Steps: Using Copyright to protect your work</title>
		<link>http://meltzergrant.com/2008/10/14/first-steps-using-copyright-to-protect-your-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to copyright law, you are a creative artist. For some of you, this isn’t news—you may already think of yourself as an artist of some sort, maybe a copywriter, a photographer, or a graphic designer. Some of you even make a living from your work. But copyright law doesn’t care; it treats the crayon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=64&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protect your website from copyright infringement claims</title>
		<link>http://meltzergrant.com/2008/08/24/protect-your-website-from-copyright-infringement-claims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ilatest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the earliest days of the internet, online technology has allowed users to access and distribute copyrighted content with seemingly reckless abandon. In recent years, however, high-profile copyright holders like major record labels and TV studios have harnessed technology to detect—and demand payment for—online infringements of their works. Now, as wider adoption of online detection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meltzergrant.com&amp;blog=20280255&amp;post=57&amp;subd=ilatest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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