Intellectual Property Brief Volume 4 | Issue 3 Article 2 7-10-2013 Of Oatmeal, Bears, and NPEs: Ensuring Fair, Effective, and Affordable Copyright Enforcement Through Copyright Insurance Evan McAlpine Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/ipbrief Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation McAlpine, Evan. "Of Oatmeal, Bears, and NPEs: Ensuring Fair, Effective, and Affordable Copyright Enforcement Through Copyright Insurance." Intellectual Property Brief 4, no. 3 (2013): 19-35. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington College of Law Journals & Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Intellectual Property Brief by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Of Oatmeal, Bears, and NPEs: Ensuring Fair, Effective, and Affordable Copyright Enforcement Through Copyright Insurance This article is available in Intellectual Property Brief: http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/ipbrief/vol4/iss3/2 Of Oatmeal, Bears, and NPEs: Ensuring Fair, Effective, and Affordable Copyright Enforcement Through Copyright Insurance by Evan McAlpine1 1ABSTRACT link-backs or attribution. Accordingly, he requested the site’s administrator remove the infringing copies via a Increasing copyright infringement and DMCA takedown notice.6 high litigation costs have left many independent After fruitlessly sending