Pamela Samuelson quoted in Washington Internet Daily (registration required), Oct. 14, 2015
“I think [House Judiciary] wouldn’t have held so many hearings if it didn’t want to do something legislatively, so it will be interesting to see if that’s on music licensing or fair use issues.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in The New York Times, June 29, 2015
“I don’t think this decision will have much effect” on the software industry, said Pamela Samuelson.… “Some of us were hoping for a little more clarity on copyright, but that will come from other courts.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in Imperial Valley News, April 5, 2015
“Most often those books are commercially available for the first few years after they’re published, but then linger on publisher backlists,” Samuelson said. “In later years, when neither the publisher nor the author is making money from the books, the work is no longer promoted, and the public can’t access them. Getting rights back from the publisher is not only feasible, but also necessary to bring the work to a new audience.”
Pamela Samuelson interviewed by Law360, October 10, 2014
Patent quality needs to be a much higher priority at the PTO. There are too many “bad” patents out there that have become cudgels with which nonpracticing entities have imposed huge costs on innovative technology firms because of their unwarranted claims of infringement.
Pamela Samuelson cited in Litigation Daily, August 12, 2014
Fifteen law professors reinforced that argument in an amicus brief of their own, also filed Monday…. The signatories include Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School and Pamela Samuelson of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Pamela Samuelson and Molly Van Houweling quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 2014
“Copyright law is so strict, stretching up to 95 years from publication in some cases, that without the right to digitize it we are in jeopardy of losing our long-term cultural and intellectual history,” said alliance founding member Pamela Samuelson, a UC Berkeley law professor who filed briefs on Google’s behalf during the eight-year book scanning controversy.
“It’s not only academic writers who are running into problems,” said alliance founding member and UC Berkeley law Professor Molly Van Houweling, “It’s biographers and researchers and journalists and literary writers.”
Pamela Samuelson writes for PatentlyO, May 12, 2014
In the most expansive interpretation of software copyright law since Whelan v. Jaslow, Judge O’Malley in Oracle v. Google endorsed dual protection for APIs from both copyright and patent law. This ignored an important statement from that court’s earlier ruling in Atari Games v. Nintendo that “patent and copyright laws protect distinct aspects of a computer program.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in California Magazine, May 2014
Samuelson said the purpose of the group is to “empower” writers on a case-by-case basis. “We want to help them achieve their goals for their work,” she said. “Sometimes that means helping them to put their work in the public domain, sometimes it means Creative Commons, and sometimes it means seeking a proprietary license. Each can be an appropriate thing to do depending on the circumstance. We just want to help people understand what their choices are.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2014
“EU data protection rules are much stricter and broader in scope than U.S. privacy rules,” said Pamela Samuelson, a professor at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. “So the ruling is not all that surprising. But it obviously complicates the task for search engines of giving folks access to content that’s lawful in most jurisdictions.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in The Washington Post, March 28, 2014
The State Street decision seemed to ignore the Supreme Court’s views altogether. Pamela Samuelson … says it’s “not possible” to square the State Street ruling with the Supreme Court’s precedents. In her view: “They didn’t like the ruling, and so they gave it a narrow interpretation. In effect, they overruled it.”