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Complete Volume 29, Issue 2 Complete Volume (PDF 5,207KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 295KB) Articles What Happens in the Cloud: Software as a Service and Copyrights (PDF 456KB) by Lothar Determann Federalism in Transition: Recalibrating the Federal-State Regulatory Balance for the All-IP Era (PDF 1,021KB) by Charles M. Davidson ...

Complete Volume 29, Annual Review 2014 Complete Volume (PDF 8,393KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 346KB) Articles Foreword (PDF 283KB) by Robin Kuntz, Julie Kent Patent Law Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.: The Product of Nature Doctrine Revisited (PDF 330KB) by Tup Ingram Breaching RAND and Reaching for ...

Complete Volume 29, Issue 1 Complete Volume (PDF 3,565KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 324KB) Articles Game Over for First Sale (PDF 549KB) by Stephen McIntyre Why Not Privacy by Default? (PDF 748KB) by Lauren E. Willis Why They Can Watch You: Assessing the Constitutionality of Warrantless Unmanned Aerial Surveillance ...

The Orphan Works Directive 2012/28/EU was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 27 October 2012. This post provides an overview of the main provisions set forth by the Directive and describes the approach used by the European institutions in a first tentative step towards tackling the ...

After the failures of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), the Obama administration’s Internet Policy Task Force has recently put forward a new proposal to making it a felony to stream copyrighted works, along with a Green Paper and call for comments on the future of ...

The advent of mass digitization via Google Books has ignited a series of copyright-related actions filed by book publishers and authors. There are two issues: whether Google and the owners of affiliated digital libraries are entitled to a fair use defense for library use, including providing access to print-disabled individuals, ...

Patent trolls have been in the spotlight of national attention in the past year, as President Obama addressed the problem in his Fireside Hangout and a White House report attempted to quantify the impact of abusive litigation. Officially known as Patent Assertion Entities, or PAEs, these companies purchase patents and bring patent infringement claims as a ...

If the Internet international archives will register 2013 as the year of Edward Snowden and the disclosure of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs by the media, 2012 was all about the mobilization against a United Nations (U.N.) attempt to take over the Internet. This post recaps the legal and ...

BTLJ is proud to announce the winners of the 2013 Student Writing Competition. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all participants for your submissions! First Place: “Why They Can Watch You: Assessing the Constitutionality of Warrantless Police UAS Surveillance,” by Brandon Nagy (Arizona State University) Second Place: “Embedding ...

The Copyright Alert System (CAS) was rolled out in late February 2013. CAS constitutes the United States realization of the international concept of “graduated response programs:” frameworks for media owners to address alleged online copyright infringements with computer users through their Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Key features of CAS – ...