Pamela Samuelson quoted in Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2014
Since then, “everything has changed,” said Pamela Samuelson…. “This has become something a lot of people feel strongly about.”
Congress in middle of Hollywood copyright clash with Silicon Valley
A call to focus on copyright
Pamela Samuelson quoted in Inside Higher Education, October 21, 2013
Many leaders and experts in higher education “want to hide” when people talk about the possibility of Congress reopening copyright legislation. “While it is sensible to be somewhat concerned about what would happen if Congress decided to reopen” the legislation, Samuelson said, “it would be a mistake for higher ed not to say, ‘If we want to do this, these things need to be on the agenda.’ ” Generally, she said, higher education needs to be sure the fair use victories of the courts are preserved.
Abusive patent litigation only getting worse, say Google, Microsoft experts
Pamela Samuelson quoted in Communications Daily, October 10, 2013 (registration required)
Non-practicing entity litigation “wasn’t worrisome five years ago,” said Pamela Samuelson, a UC-Berkeley law professor. Then, such litigation was aimed at big companies such as Google and Microsoft, she said. “But now a lot of the assertions are coming against small companies, and [they’re] having real significant operational impacts.”
Patent trolls’ put brakes on SF transit app
Samuelson clinic cited in San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2013(registration required)
This summer, the San Francisco digital rights group and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley helped significantly narrow the scope of one key ArrivalStar patent, after filing a request for re-examination.
Apple’s chances on an e-book ruling appeal are lousy, say legal scholars
Pamela Samuelson quoted in AllThingsDigital, July 10, 2013
“Apple may have a tough time getting this ruling reversed because the judge made findings of fact about the antitrust violation that appellate courts typically defer to,” Samuelson told AllThingsD. “Most reversals happen as to interpretations of the law.”
Apple says differences in publisher deals belie e-book conspiracy charges
Pamela Samuelson quoted in AllThingsDigital, June 5, 2013
Pam Samuelson … took a similar view. “It is quite possible for antitrust co-conspirators to mask agreements in restraint of trade by adopting differently worded documents,” she said. “Using identical language would make the anticompetitive nature of an agreement too obvious.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook: “The e-book case to me is bizarre”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in AllThingsDigital, June 3, 2013
As Pam Samuelson, director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, told AllThingsD, “The DOJ would not be pursuing this case if they thought they would lose.”
House judiciary committee sets up first hearing on copyright reform
Pamela Samuelson cited in Tech Dirt, May 8, 2013
They’re starting with five witnesses, all of whom participated in the Copyright Principles Project, which we wrote about a few years ago when it came out…. Having Samuelson on the list is the key one, as she was the driving force behind the project and is one of, if not the most, knowledgeable folks concerning copyright issues around.
Aaron Swartz: Opening access to knowledge
Pamela Samuelson writes for San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 2013
What was Internet activist Aaron Swartz thinking when he downloaded 4 million articles from JSTOR (short for journal storage), a digital library of scholarly articles, in a closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Because of his suicide this month, we will never know for sure, but one consistent theme ran through his short but brilliant career: The Internet provides amazing opportunities to open more access to knowledge. And he wanted to help that process.
Brewster Kahle’s Internet archive
Pamela Samuelson quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, October 15, 2012
“He has almost evangelistic zeal for promoting better access to information to take advantage of the opportunities that are out there,” said Pamela Samuelson, a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. Samuelson, a renowned pioneer in digital copyright law, met Kahle about 20 years ago. “If anything, he’s become more of a visionary and more of an evangelist,” she said. “He hasn’t slowed down at all.”