Supreme Court holds video games enjoy first amendment protection, striking down law restricting sale to minors *

USA - June 29 2011
For years, states have passed legislation attempting to restrict the sale of video games, particularly violent video games, to minors.

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Buyer (and reseller) beware: the Copyright Act's first-sale doctrine may not insulate a reseller of goods manufactured abroad *

USA - December 15 2010
Under the first-sale doctrine of copyright law, a purchaser of a lawfully created copyrighted work (like a book, film, or CD) normally can later sell the work without the permission of the copyright holder, free from a claim of copyright infringement.

Co-authors: Heidi E. Harvey, Kristen McCallion, Adam Kessel.

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The importance of naming names: why a compilation copyright registration may not be enough to protect your rights *

USA - October 1 2010
Content owners that register works with the Copyright Office as "compilations" or "collective works" should be aware of a string of recent court decisions that may bar federal suit to enforce copyrights in the individual works that comprise these collections.

Co-authors: Kristen McCallion.

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Don’t presume anything: copyright holders must establish irreparable harm to be entitled to an injunction *

USA - May 10 2010
The Second Circuit issued a critical decision on April 30, setting forth a new standard for preliminary injunctions in copyright infringement cases and hindering the efforts of J.D. Salinger’s Literary Trust to prevent U.S. sales of Swedish author Fredrik Colting’s 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye—an unauthorized “sequel” to J.D. Salinger’s celebrated Catcher in the Rye.

Co-authors: Amy L. Brosius, Kristen McCallion.

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The IDN ccTLD fast-track process & new gTLDs *

Global - April 15 2010
In November 2009, ICANN launched a "Fast-Track" registration process for proposed Internationalized Domain Names for Country Code Top-Level Domains ("IDN ccTLDs").

Co-authors: Alexander J. A. Garcia .

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