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Devlin Hartline

@devlinhartline.bsky.social

Husband, father, & IP geek. JD, LLM, & Esquire. Senior Fellow, Forum for Intellectual Property, Hudson Institute. #Hudson4IP

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Micah@rincewind.run · last mo.

now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A

Aaron Moss@copyrightlately.bsky.social · last mo.

New: A book called SCAM says the Zapruder film was fabricated. The museum that owns the copyright says the only thing fabricated is the controversy. A Dallas judge just weighed in. Full story, up now on Copyright Lately: copyrightlately.com/zapruder-fil...

Inside the Strange Copyright Fight Over America's Most Famous Home Movie

Six decades after JFK's assassination, a conspiracy book took aim at the Zapruder copyright. A Dallas judge just decided which claims survive.

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Copyright Alliance@copyrightalliance.org · 3mo ago

In an op-ed published in IPWatchdog, Copyright Alliance CEO @keithkup.bsky.social says, “Judicial site blocking is a safe, effective tool that has been widely deployed around the world to great effect … Congress should enact it.” Read more here! ipwatchdog.com/2026/06/18/r...

The Real-World Implications of the Supreme Court’s Cox Decision

The thriving legitimate digital marketplace we enjoy today didn't emerge by accident. It was built, in significant part, on the historical bedrock of secondary liability.

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Copyright Alliance@copyrightalliance.org · 3mo ago

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Join the Alliance | Become a Member | Copyright Alliance

Interested in better understanding copyright so you can grow your creative career or company? If so, join our community today! Membership is completely free.

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Zvi S. Rosen@zvirosen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've been wondering why the Copyright Office didn't really register anything under the rule of doubt until 2008 under the '76 act. It turns out they did, it's just not listed on the registration. Source: Presentation by Marybeth Peters, Esq., 17 U. DAYTON L. REV. 755 (1992).

When the Copyright Office registers a claim under the rule of doubt, a letter goes out. That letter says we have registered under the rule of doubt, and the correspondence box is checked so that any practicing attorney who sees a certificate that has the correspondence box checked, I would argue, should go and see what the-Copyright Office said about it. "Registered under the rule of doubt" is not stamped on the certificate. The reason is that if the court looks and finds that it is copyrightable, you have got a certificate that has a cloud on it for the rest of its life; so we do not mark the certificates. So keep in mind that we do operate under a rule of doubt.
Devlin Hartline@devlinhartline.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The administration's reinterpretation of settled immigration law (N.B. 8 USC 1225(b)(2)(A)) isn't persuasive. But I think the main problem is procedural: We're seeing thousands of these cases b/c SCOTUS precedent requires individual habeas petitions (& prohibits classwide/nationwide relief). [1/3]

Neil Turkewitz@neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This from the Administration that likes to talk about restoring “Law & Order” to America. In their blind commitment to lethality, their lawlessness knows no bounds.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“DOJ’s ‘Notice of Corrections’ ought to give the justices real pause … about substituting their judgment for that of district courts at least where preliminary relief has been based upon an impoverished (or non-existant) record.” Today’s “One First” on developments in the DOGE/Social Security case:

Bonus 203: Correcting the Record in the Social Security/DOGE Case

An eye-opening filing by the Department of Justice should give more than a little pause to the justices with respect to one of their earlier grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration.

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Devlin Hartline@devlinhartline.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Tomorrow at 11:00 AM ET: I'm excited to be discussing the Cox v. Sony oral argument with my favorite #copyright geek @zvirosen.bsky.social at the "Courthouse Steps" webinar hosted by the Federalist Society. I hope you can join us! Register here: fedsoc.org/events/court...

Courthouse Steps Oral Argument: Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment

In Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, the Supreme Court is set to determine wheth...

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Devlin Hartline@devlinhartline.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Justice Scalia: "Restatements are of questionable value, and must be used with caution. Over time, the Restatements' authors have abandoned the mission of describing the law, and have chosen instead to set forth their aspirations for what the law ought to be." Kansas v. Nebraska, 574 U.S. at 475.

Neil Turkewitz@neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“At the end of the day, a Restatement should restate the law. When it fails to do that, it is not a Restatement at all, but more of a normative treatise or law review article. Accordingly, at best, the Copyright Restatement should not be afforded any more weight than those types of resources.”

Devlin Hartline@devlinhartline.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"When an ALI project is so riddled with disagreements that a substantial number of participants feel the need to resign and ask that their names be removed from the final product, it calls into question the legitimacy of the project." #copyright

Copyright Alliance@copyrightalliance.org · 11mo ago

In a new #WoltersKluwer #copyright blog by Copyright Alliance CEO @keithkup.bsky.social, Keith asserts that mass #ALI resignations call into question the legitimacy of the ALI Copyright Restatement. Read Keith's post here for more: legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-bl...