Type: Brief Year: 2003 The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled November 24 In the Matter of Certain Universal Transmitters for Garage Door Openers, handing an important legal victory to consumers. Chamberlain, one of the world’s largest producers of residential and commercial door openers, alleged that its competitor, Skylink, violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act […]
Chamberlain v. Skylink in US International Trade Court
Davidson & Associates v. Internet Gateway, Inc. in Eighth Circuit
Type: Brief Year: 2005 The Samuelson Clinic filed a brief amicus curiae before the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Davidson & Associates v. Internet Gateway, Inc. The case is better known as Blizzard v. Bnetd. The brief was filed on behalf of both Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of […]
MGM v. Grokster in Supreme Court
Type: Brief Year: 2005 The Samuelson Clinic filed a brief amicus curiae in the U.S. Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster on behalf of 60 law professors and the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery. USACM is the world’s oldest and largest international scientific and educational organization composed of 78,000 computing […]
Court Ruling Protects Consumers and Competition
Type: Brief, News Item Year: 2004 In a case of first impression, the Federal Circuit rejected a consumer manufacturer of garage door opener’s effort to employ a controversial section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the anti-circumvention provisions (1201), to distort the market by employing computer code to lock-in consumers and lock-out aftermarket competition. The […]
Consumers Union Amicus Briefs
Type: Brief Year: 2003 Students authored and submitted two amicus curiae briefs on behalf of Consumers Union in cases of first impression under the DMCA. In both instances, makers of consumer goods are attempting to use the law designed to protect creative content such as books, movies and music distributed on the internet from piracy […]
Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comment to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman
Type: Clinical Project, Comments Year: 2005 The Samuelson Clinic submitted a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of computer scientists Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman, both of Princeton University. In their Comment, Professor Felten and Mr. Halderman requested an exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act that would permit circumvention of technological […]
How DRM-based Content Delivery Systems Disrupt Expectations of “Personal Use”
Type: Presentation, Research Paper Year: 2003 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan, along with John Han and Aaron Burstein, presented “How DRM-Based Content Delivery Systems Disrupt Expectations of ‘Personal Use’” at the 2003 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management. A study was conducted to see whether DRM-based online music and movie distributors accord with consumer expectations when […]
Clinic Submitted Reply Comments to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Internet Archive regarding Orphan Works
Type: Comments Year: 2005 The Clinic submitted reply comments to the Copyright Office on behalf of the Internet Archive. The reply comments elaborated on The Archive’s experience with digital preservation of, and access, to various works as well as its proposed partial solution to the Orphan Works process. The reply comments also discussed some of […]
Clinic Submitted Comments to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Internet Archive regarding Orphan Works
Type: Clinical Project, Comments Year: 2005 The Samuelson Clinic submitted comments on behalf of the Internet Archive in response to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Inquiry (PDF) relating to Orphan Works. In its comments, the Internet Archive urged the Copyright Office to consider the impact that Orphan Works—works whose owners are difficult or impossible to […]
The Technical and Legal Dangers of Code-Based Fair Use Enforcement
Type: Research Paper Year: 2004 “The Technical and Legal Dangers of Code-Based Fair Use Enforcement,” written by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and John Erickson, discusses policy enforcement when it comes to content use. The paper analyzes digital rights management (DRM) and how it evaluates usage control policies. DRM is a type of technology that seeks […]