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The decade-long legal fight over Google’s effort to create a digital library of millions of books is finally over ... the Supreme Court has ...

Fri. 4/22 Class Agenda

Period 2 - Report to your assigned class to work on your Math project Period 3 - Report to your assigned class to take your Civil Rights qui...

Richard Hooper to stand down as Chairman of the Copyright Hub

The 1709 Blog has just learned that Richard Hooper, currently the Chairman of the  Copyright Hub , has decided to leave his position. Accord...

Thurs. 4/21 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete assignment from yesterday...questions 7-8. 2.  Other Civil Rights Groups (pg. 37) - use textbook HW - Quiz tomorro...

Are Languages Created by One Single Homo sapiens Protected by Copyright?

You may remember that Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios are suing Axanar Productions and its principal Alec Peters over the short movie P...

Wed. 4/20 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Look at the bottom of pg. 10…What is the artist's message?  Can any student be successful in ANY public school?  Explai...

Tues. 4/19 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete 5-6 using in-class resources. 2.  Discuss LBJ's "Great Society" - has it helped America? 3.  Civil R...

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It been eight years since the publisher John Wiley & Sons sued Supap Kirtsaeng for re-selling Asian market textbooks in the USA - and no...

Mon. 4/18 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  All of those changes during the 60s cleared up all the segregation issues, right?  Read article... click here . 2.  Civil R...

Fri. 4/15 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Did President Lyndon B. Johnson really change the political landscape  forever ?  Look at the shift of many of the southern...

Some copyright events of interest

Our friends at the IPKat and Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property Law regularly update their lists of IP events, in which also 1709 ...

Thurs. 4/14 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Other integration struggles... Jackie Robinson 2.  View Civil Rights Highlights Clips (pg. 26)... civil disobedience  in ac...

Self-Portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe? Portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe?

On April 6, 2016, artist and photographer James Miller, professionally known as Bobby Miller, filed a copyright infringement suit against Th...

Wed. 4/13 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  New Seats...New Marking Period.  Emmett Till Gallery Walk...Let's take a moment to check out one another's work. 2....

IFPI GLOBAL MUSIC REPORT 2016

The record labels' international trade body, the IFPI, has published its Global Music Report for 2016 with headline news that global rec...

Tues. 4/12 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Open to pg. 21...and read directions carefully 2.  Complete pg. 21 during class today 3.  Examine pg. 10...what is the arti...

French State Ordered to Compensate Bouygues Telecom for HADOPI-related Costs

On April 4th, the French Conseil d'Etat (Supreme Court in administrative law matters) ordered the State to pay Bouygues Telecom (recentl...

Mon. 4/11 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete pgs. 11-12.  Making inferences...question 4. 2.  Integration of schools (pg. 13-20).  Complete questions on pg. 20...

Events this week

Professor Martin Kreschmer of Glasgow University has asked us to mention two events taking place this week. First, is a public seminar relat...

Fri. 4/8 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  You thought it couldn't get worse after hearing about the trial... 2.  Roots of Segregation ( review ) - pg. 9 3.   Wat...

Thurs. 4/7 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  In one word, summarize your impression of what you saw yesterday.  Any questions regarding the story thus far...let's g...

Wed. 4/6 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Write a 20 word summary of the Till story (thus far)... 2.   Watch - 15:36 - 30:41 (Till "The Funeral") HW -     ...

Tues. 4/5 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What rights are we guaranteed by our Constitution?  Bridge discussion to the  Civil Rights Era  and  segregation .  Rights ...

Guest Author Coming Soon!

Four Perfect Pebbles  Preview:  Next month, Marion Blumenthal Lazan will be visiting JDMS to share her incredible story of surviving the Ho...

Artistes call for major reforms of take down policies and the 'largely useless' DMCA

Some 400 recording artists, songwriters and groups including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) are calling on Congress to...

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A U.S. District Court judge has again looked at a case brought by three publishers against Georgia State University's e-reserve and rule...