Type: Research Paper Year: 2007 “The Magnificance of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident,” co-authored by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and BCLT Microsoft Fellow Aaron Perzanowski, addresses Sony’s deployment of DRM systems in Compact Discs and its implications for security and privacy. The article provides recommendations for reducing the “likelihood of companies deploying […]
The Magnificance of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident
Samuelson Clinic Non-Resident Fellow Co-Authors Report on Cease-and-Desist Letters Submitted to Chilling Effects
Type: Clinical Project, Report Year: 2005 Samuelson Clinic Non-Resident Fellow Laura Quilter and Jennifer Urban, Director of the Intellectual Property Clinic at the University of Southern California, released a summary report of findings from a study of takedown notices sent pursuant to Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and submitted by the recipients […]
Digital Rights Management and Fair Use by Design
Type: Research Paper Year: 2003 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan discusses how technology firms are under pressure to use digital rights management (DRM) to protect copyrighted material in her article “Digital Rights Management and Fair Use by Design.” Copyrighted material is being copied on the Net, and copyright owners are urging technology firms to incorporate DRM […]
Digital Rights Management and Fair Use by Design
Type: Research Paper Year: 2003 Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan discusses how technology firms are under pressure to use digital rights management (DRM) to protect copyrighted material in her article “Digital Rights Management and Fair Use by Design.” Copyrighted material is being copied on the Net, and copyright owners are urging technology firms to incorporate DRM […]
How DRM-based Content Delivery Systems Disrupt Expectations of “Personal Use”
Type: Research Paper, Presentation 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 […]
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 […]
The Magnificance of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident
Type: Research Paper Year: 2007 “The Magnificance of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident,” co-authored by Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and BCLT Microsoft Fellow Aaron Perzanowski, addresses Sony’s deployment of DRM systems in Compact Discs and its implications for security and privacy. The article provides recommendations for reducing the “likelihood of companies deploying […]
Report 1: Updating Fair use for Innovators and Creators in the Digital Age: Two Targeted Reforms
Type: Clinical Project Year: 2010 This Report is one of a series related to the Copyright Reform Act, a project created on behalf of Public Knowledge as a client of the Stanford Cyberlaw Clinic and the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law. In Parts I, II, and III […]
Samuelson Clinic Students File Amicus Brief on Behalf of the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture in the Viacom-YouTube Appeal in the Second Circuit
Type: Brief Year: 2011 The Samuelson Clinic, on behalf of its client the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture, as well as the Alliance for Community Media, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Second Circuit in Viacom Int’l Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. to explain to the court how independent artists, creators, and speakers […]
Is it in the Public Domain? A Handbook for Evaluating the Copyright Status of a Work Created in the United States Between January 1, 1923 and December 31, 1977
Type: Clinical Project, Educational Tools Year: 2014 The Samuelson Clinic is excited to provide a handbook, “Is it in the Public Domain?,” and accompanying visuals. These educational tools help users to evaluate the copyright status of a work created in the United States between January 1, 1923 and December 31, 1977—those works that were created before today’s […]