Copyrights

JUDGE ERROR MAKES PREDICTION OF CASE OUTCOME DIFFICULT Judge error makes predicting outcome of case difficult if not impossible. The usual reasons given are the uncertainty of the evidence available, the believability of the witnesses, the obscurity of the law applicable, the quality of representation, the unknown biases of the fact finder and so on. […]

Copyright claims jurisdiction in Colorado state courts – Long v. Cordain In a recent decision the Colorado Court of Appeals decided that a complaint containing copyright related claims was not preempted by the federal Copyright Act and that Colorado State Courts had jurisdiction over such claims. “Long’s complaint advanced four state-law causes of action: breach […]

Copyright registration has become far more important to the copyright owner than formerly.  Copyrights protect the actual expression of content not the intellectual content of the expression.   Einstein’s exact writings could have been protected by a copyright but not the theory described.