Copyright Take-Backs? Supreme Court Grants Cert in Golan v. Holder

…into the public domain. Tyler Ochoa has blogged in detail about an earlier ruling on this blog, covering the copyright and First Amendment challenges the Act faced. Tyler Hart also…

First Sale and Exhaustion Doctrines in IP Conference, Nov. 5, SCU

…4:20 Copyright Issues Moderator: Brian Carver, UC Berkeley School of Information Neel Chatterjee, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Raymond T. Nimmer, University of Houston Law Center Tyler T. Ochoa, Santa…

Ochoa on the Legacy of the Statute of Anne

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Today marks the 300th Anniversary of the effective date of the Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright law. Although copyright law has changed a…

Ochoa on the Duration of James Joyce’s Copyrights

By Tyler Ochoa [Eric’s note: my colleague Tyler Ochoa contributes to the blog from time to time. This time, he submits a modified version of a letter he sent to…

Mixed Ruling on Damages in Premier League v. YouTube

…in it. (When in doubt, I always take my tough copyright questions to my colleague Tyler Ochoa). And like you, my eyes glaze over when I see “Berne” and “TRIPs”…

Ochoa on Golan v. Holder and Copyright Restoration

By Tyler Ochoa [Eric’s note: my colleague Tyler Ochoa is an expert on copyright law (among other things), and I’ve occasionally posted contributions from him before. This time, he weighs…

Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the 1909 Copyright Act, April 30, SCU

…Clark Law School Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara University School of Law Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School Tony Reese, University of Texas School of Law Pamela Samuelson, Univ. of…

AOIR Regulating Virtual Worlds Panel, and My Notes on Investment Expectations in Virtual Worlds

By Eric Goldman Last week at AOIR’s annual meeting (AOIR 8.0) in Vancouver, Greg Lastowka, James Grimmelmann, Tyler Ochoa and I presented on the topic of regulation of virtual worlds….

March 2007 Quick Links, Google Edition

…Prof. Justin Hughes of Cardozo, Andrew Bridges of Winston & Strawn, Russ Frackman of Mitchell Silberberg, Fred von Lohmann of EFF and Prof. Tyler Ochoa of SCU. This turned into…

Ochoa on Unabomber Papers

…issues about copyright, ownership of papers, the First Amendment, moral rights (including the government’s right to modify the documents) and victim restitution. My colleague Tyler Ochoa has cut through some…