Type: Brief, News Item Year: 2004 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appears ruled that P2P providers Grokster and Morpheus are not liable for their users’ copyright infringements. Like the VCR in the Supreme Court’s famous Sony decision, the P2P software is “capable of substantial non-infringing uses,” and, unlike the Napster system, the providers have no […]
P2P Providers Not Liable for Their Users’ Copyright Infringement
Clinic Filed Amicus Brief in Second Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Martignon
Type: Brief Year: 2005 The Samuelson Clinic submitted a brief amicus curiae on behalf of thirty intellectual property and constitutional law professors in the case of United States v. Martignon. The case concerns the federal criminal anti-bootlegging statute, which the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York struck down last year because […]
Clinic asks Supreme Court to deny certiorari in MGM v. Grokster
Type: Brief Year: 2004 The clinic, in conjunction with American University’s Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, represented the Internet Archive and the Computer and Communications Industry Association in requesting that the Supreme Court deny certiorari in the Grokster case on November 8, 2004. The brief states that the Sony standard of “substantial noninfringing uses” is […]
Samuelson Clinic Director and Student Testified Before the Copyright Office
Type: Clinical Project, Testimony Year: 2006 Samuelson Clinic Director Deirdre Mulligan and Clinic student Aaron Perzanowski testified before the Copyright Office as part of its triennial DMCA Anti-Circumvention rulemaking proceeding. Mulligan and Perzanowski, joined by Clinic client Professor Ed Felten, argued in support of their proposed exemption to the DMCA, which would permit circumvention of […]
Introduction to the Copyright Reform Act
Type: Clinical Project Year: 2010 This Report serves as an introduction 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. Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C., based public interest organization that […]
SLTPPC Authors Introduction and Fair Use Whitepaper for the Copyright Reform Act
Type: Clinical Project Year: 2010 Public Knowledge, a Washington DC based public interest group, announced its Copyright Reform Act (CRA) project, which consists of model legislation proposing five reforms to copyright law. The reforms are intended to help restore the balance between rights holders and users in light of technological and legal changes since the […]
Samuelson Clinic submits Amicus Brief in First Unitarian v. NSA on behalf of Experts in the History of Executive Surveillance (11/15/13)
Type: Brief Year: 2013 View the brief here.
Plaintiff’s Reply in Support of Cross Motion For Summary Judgement and Opposition to Defendants’ Motion For Summary Judgement
Type: Brief Year: 2012 Link Click to download pdf
Clinic Comments on Private Sector Use of the Social Security Number
Type: Clinical Project Year: 2009 In comments to the Federal Trade Commission, the Samuelson Clinic argued that credit grantors are using the Social Security number (SSN) both as a record locator to identify individuals, but also as a password to authenticate them. A series of cases points to credit grantors approving impostors’ applications for new […]
Notice of Cross Motion For Summary Judgement; Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Cross Motion For Summary Judgement
Type: Brief Year: 2012 Linl to the Brief Click to download pdf