Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Google believes so. Its agents are copying books by the truckload. Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and the Universities of California, Michigan, Texas, and Virginia have opened their doors (and stacks) to the project. Estimated conservatively, Google is copying tens of thousands of books each week. Agreements with publishers cover some of this copying, but much of it is done without permission....

In recent decades, Major League Baseball has made great strides in developing its business operation. No longer content to make money from tickets, concession sales, and a few radio and TV contracts, it has created an entirely new joint venture, Major League Baseball Advanced Media (“BAM”), that allows the baseball club owners to fully monetize not only the games themselves but nearly every aspect of the sport’s appeal....

This is the first issue following our twenty-fifth anniversary. Audio and video from the 25th National Lawyers Convention is online. In addition, we are pleased to announce that the transcripts of nearly all of the panel debates will be published in various law reviews this coming year, including The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, The Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, The Texas Review of Law and Policy, The William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, The New York Journal of Law and Liberty, Ave Maria Law Review, Hofstra Law Review, Regent University Law Review, The Southern New England Roundtable Symposium Law Journal, The SMU Technology Law Review, The University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, and The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Publication details appear on the individual webpage for each panel in our new Multimedia Archive. Consequently, we will not be publishing the transcripts as an issue of Engage this year; our next issue will be in June.

The Federalist Society's Intellectual Property Practice Group presented this panel discussion at the 2007 Annual National Lawyers Convention on November 17, 2007. Panelists included Prof. Shubha Ghosh of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Prof. F. Scott Kieff of Washington University in St. Louis, Prof. Adam Mossoff of Michigan State University College of Law, Prof. Steven M. Tepp of the U.S. Copyright Office, and Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.