Legal News for the People

Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain? (eff.org)

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Facebook gets to keep its 'Timeline' following trademark settlement (techhive.com)

DIY Startup Formation – Powered by Docracy, Orrick, and “the Internets” (siliconhillslawyer.com)

Craigslist's allegations of copyright violations thrown out (forbes.com)

Spark capital will now pay their own legal bills (nabeelhyatt.com)

Court Rules Pre-1972 Recordings are Not Covered by the DMCA (digitalmusicnews.com)

Legal Landmark: Artists Start to Reclaim Rights to Their Music (variety.com)

Supreme Court Asks: Can Human Genes Be Patented? (npr.org)

Workplace Issues Now Grow on “Vines” (or: lawyers freaking out on social media) (ctemploymentlawblog.com)

Will the supreme court end gene patents after 3 decades? (arstechnica.com)

Feds may use subpoena powers to study patent trolls (arstechnica.com)

Foxconn licenses Microsoft patents (arstechnica.com)

EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents (eff.org)

Proposed immigration bill could stem Silicon Valley's brain drain (theverge.com)

Why Rackspace is suing the most notorious patent troll in America (rackspace.com)

Small Print, Big Problems (thenation.com)

A modern day Aesop’s fable: the GCs and their budget (legalbratblawg.com)

Rise of robots means rethinking our laws (sfchronicle.com)

Rise of robots means rethinking our laws (patents.stackexchange.com)

The Jobs Crisis at Our Best Law Schools Is Much, Much Worse Than You Think (theatlantic.com)

Regional internet provider injects it's own ads (arstechnica.com)

SC Greenlights One Style of Equity Crowdfunding (techcrunch.com)

Copyright As Censorship: University Threatens Own Faculty With Copyright Infringement For Campus Survey (techdirt.com)