About to discuss a few circuit splits in the law of Copyright licensing with the Licensing group of California Lawyers Association. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Some experts: We are not sure that the US Copyright Office and its reports should guide federal copyright legislation. US Copyright Office: hold my beer. We now want to guide federal non-copyright legislation. #copyrightisinyourname copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-a…

Taping fruits to walls is now legal! An artist who taped an orange & banana to a wall loses a copyright lawsuit against another, who taped a banana. Lack of access. A weird case between artists that the district court entertained for much too long. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub…

As expected, we got an amended (& improved) complaint in X v. Bright Data. IMO, some of the arguments against preemption are weak. But not all. Interestingly, X argues it protects its users' privacy (when selling their data). That's powerful and might require a trial.

I posted a new draft of my article on eBooks lending by public libraries, now incorporating the Second Circuit's problematic opinion in Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

.Delta is so weird. I booked a flight to TLV in November. They announced that all flights are cancelled. But on their computer it is not. So their consumer "care" can't really help (like book me a flight with another airline). news.delta.com/delta-pause-fl…

Thanks Jessica Silbey for a wonderful Jotwell review of my forthcoming The Georgetown Law Journal article on public libraries and their challenges in the digital age. ip.jotwell.com/how-do-you-lik…..

מעניין אם אופירה שמרה את הצטלה הזה.

#BULawProf Jessica Silbey reviews Guy Rub's "Reimagining Digital Libraries" for Jotwell, explaining copyright law and "digital lending". She writes, "This means we can resell, lend, or give away our books. What we can’t do is make copies of them." ⬇️ spr.ly/6012U8IGr

Happy to see that my friend and former The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law colleague Chris Walker, together with the school's current dean, Kent Barnett, received this ultimate honor yesterday on Last Week Tonight. .

It's an interesting case. The #copyright claim here isn't trivial, both because the images are not the same (most of the copying is of style) and because @tesla has a strong fair use defense. Maybe the false endorsement claim has more meat. A great exam question.

Please join Jeremy S. Goldman and me tomorrow afternoon for a discussion on copyright preemption and contracts, organized by Copyright Society. copyrightsociety.org/event/copyrigh…

@guyrub.bsky.social Nuff said.

My article, Reimagining Digital Libraries, analyzing the struggle of public libraries to adapt to the digital world, and why copyright law should adjust to tackle that new world is now out at the Georgetown Law Journal. Read it while it last.

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on, with amazing co-authors (Jake Linford, Matt Bodie, Tal Kastner, Ethan Leib, & Pamela Bookman) for a while: an open-source, free, customizable & modular contract law casebook. Check it out! lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_…