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April 5, 2010: The 23rd Annual Horace S. Manges Lecture

Speaker: Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

IP Faculty in the News

ABOVE THE LAW
The Google Books Settlement
Dec. 18, 2009
The debate, held at the Cornell Club and sponsored by the Federalist Society, was moderated by Professor Scott Hemphill of Columbia Law School. Hemphill began the proceedings with a brief overview of the topic. Several years ago, Google started scanning millions of books from the collections of major libraries. In 2005, the company was sued by a group of authors and publishers for copyright infringement. The suit, a class action, is in the process of being settled.

ITWIRE
OpenSUSE's Brockmeier caught out over Moglen claim
Dec. 18, 2009
He was quoted by Peter Judge of eWeek as saying: "Even Eben Moglen [Columbia law professor and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center] approved of the deal and said it was compliant with the GPLv2 license agreement." Such a claim is surprising considering that Moglen is well-known as a co-author of the GPLv3 which introduced a clause that would prevent such deals from happening in the future.

THE FASTER TIMES (Blog)
Why It's Hard to Teach Internet Law
Dec. 23, 2009
I'm in awe of professors like Larry Lessig, Tim Wu, and the many excellent journalists (and other experts) in this field who can explain these concepts so clearly so often.