Child’s Play?: The impact of copyright on children

Posted on 2 July 2008 by r

On Gamine Expedition, Sara Grimes writes about the Harry Potter lawsuit differently than I’ve seen before (or the economic production /fan labor issues that I’ve written about) by focusing on how traditional intellectual property analysis ignores the impact of copyright on children:
What troubles me about the Harry Potter lawsuit is that … the object under [...]

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Our Law and Society Conference Presentation: The Intellectual Property and Political Economy of Fanworks and other forms of user-generated content

Posted on 31 May 2008 by r

Main points
1. As media consumers become amateur media producers with an (at least perceived) economic stake in a media production, it has become more important for scholars to examine the legal and public policy implications of these fan productions and the communities that create them.
2. Communications theory that has informed most political economy/legal scholarship is [...]

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