Robert Schwartz’s Comments

• Jan 14th, 2022 @ 6:56pm

  Negation of fair use?

  on New 'TLDR' Bill Requires Companies Provide Synopsis Of Overlong, Predatory Terms Of Service

  So in (D), will the FTC consider a negation of fair use rights to be a "transfer of rights to the Covered Entity"? It's not among the examples given.

• Jan 14th, 2022 @ 9:00am

  Negation of fair use?

  on New 'TLDR' Bill Requires Companies Provide Synopsis Of Overlong, Predatory Terms Of Service

  So in (D), will the FTC consider a negation of fair use rights to be a "transfer of rights to the Covered Entity"? It's not among the examples given.

• Nov 15th, 2019 @ 10:32am

  Not the best choice

  on Universal Music Claims Copyright Over Newly Public Domain 'Yes! We Have No Bananas'

  At the LOC’s own celebration of 1923 content entering the PD, this was the LOC’s THEME SONG.

• Nov 15th, 2019 @ 10:20am

  Old habits

  on Universal Music Claims Copyright Over Newly Public Domain 'Yes! We Have No Bananas'

  We need to update both filters and habits. When my band made our first CD a decade ago we had the choice of listing songs as "originals" or "covers" -- no imagination that one could be PD. Then, when I entered Look For The Silver Lining (Jerome Kern, 1919), they insisted it wasn't PD -- until I insisted they look it up. This TechDirt post gave me a start re the forthcoming Public Domain Song Anthology. But heartened to see the pushback on such BS.

• Feb 12th, 2016 @ 11:04am

  (untitled comment)

  on Our Response To Yet Another Bogus Legal Threat From Australia: Go Learn Some Law
  (If you must keep talking please try to make it rhyme -- Mose Allison)
• Feb 12th, 2016 @ 11:01am

  (untitled comment)

  on Our Response To Yet Another Bogus Legal Threat From Australia: Go Learn Some Law
  Mr. Gibson seems to have a talent for meter (though not rhyme). If he'd like to collaborate on setting his prose to music he should please let me know.