[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkogKAZGm_g] As I previously wrote about in my post, Heart’s Barricuda: A lesson in licensing, ownership, politics, and moral rights, politics and artists have clashed…
After many months, Judge Patterson issued an opinion (PDF) in the Harry Potter Lexicon case, ruling that the Lexicon, could not be published and ordered…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpkitLUbeEg] Do artists have control over the use of their songs? Should they? Most people would agree that an artist’s work being used to support…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoCebPA1WfQ] In a recent posts on the University of Chicago Faculty blog & Concurring Opinions, and in articles in the New York Times and the…
The Center for Social Media has posted their Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (16 page PDF Report). This Report is…
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…
Check out Rebecca Tushnet, User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice, 31 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2008). [translation: it’s in the Columbia Journal of Law and…
In several recent blog and news stories (including my favorite headline of the bunch: The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU] This video of Kermit the Frog singing plaintively (about his love for Miss Piggy?) has been making the rounds for at a while and…
By Keidra Chaney and Raizel Liebler Recently there has been considerable corporate media content owners’ backlash against “user generated content” on the Internet – content…