Sometimes the law is not the law

Nine experts advocated for Indigenous communities to maintain control of data about their land and culture at a Tuesday night event in Vanderbilt Hall.   The event, titled “Living Data, Living Lands,”...

Celebrate the start of the semester with the Engelberg Center & ILI. Re-connect, or connect for the first time, with the Engelverse!

On the margins of UNGA 81, leading civil society and digital rights organizations will examine balancing aspirations for digital sovereignty.

Launching Clarissa Redwine's and JS Tan's Against Tech Oligarchy

On the margins of UNGA 81, leading civil society and digital rights organizations will examine balancing aspirations for digital sovereignty.

Opinion: Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery should be required to take a negative ownership position in their remaining rivals to receive regulatory approval for their merger.

Regulations that force developers to disclose trade secrets to the public could violate the Constitution. How can regulators respond?

Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.

Alumni titles from "Declaring Independence" to "Fashion and Intellectual Property."

Every three years, a strange bureaucratic ritual plays out in the U.S. Copyright Office. Organizations, law school clinics, trade associations, academics, companies, and individuals file mountains of ...

Pulling back the curtain on the evolution of ebooks offers some clarity to how the shift to digital left ownership behind in the analog world.

For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.

We live in a world obsessed with firsts, in terms of accomplishments, creations, races, and milestones. At the same time, societal understandings of “first” can obscure others who in fact came beforehand. This Article is about understanding the hold that the idea of “first” has over intellectual property laws and how this hold can make the allocation of intellectual property rights less effective. It locates the roots of “first” as a basis to allocate rights in traditional property law. It then sets out four values that a rule of first possession can be seen to promote when it is transplanted to intellectual property: fairness, order, societal benefits, and rhetorical power.

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision last week shielding Cox Communications from contributory copyright liability and wiping out a massive piracy verdict against the internet service provider h...

This season of Engelberg Center Live! contains audio from Engelberg Center events. Previous seasons of Engelberg Center Live! included a history of ebooks from Library Futures, a deep dive into the d...

Trade secret law is premised on secrecy, though it has not yet contended with the individual and social effects of keeping and leaking secrets in the psychologi

It's a "Vogue"-eat-"Dogue" world.

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. We follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its conten...