Tulane Works in Progress Intellectual Property Conference: My Presentation on Political Economy and Intellectual Property of User-Created Content

Works by the U.S. government are in the public domain* — but are they truly available to the public? Some publishers have managed to lock…

Due to the difficult line determining what is commercial and non-commercial use of copyrighted materials, Creative Commons has recently completed a study regarding this issue…

This is a much shortened version of our presentation (by Keidra Chaney & Raizel Liebler) at the Law and Society Conference. The complete version (with…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEpj9w1yz64] On this blog, we write often about the value of fan-created works, about how fans use their creativity, using works created and owned by…

Last week the testimony ended in the Harry Potter Lexicon case regarding whether J.K. Rowling can prevent the print publication of the Lexicon, a non-licensed…

by Keidra Chaney A few weeks ago I was invited as a speaker to a Chicago event called Homeroom 101 where speakers give an intro…

Like other grown fangirls, I have a recent history of reading fantasy literature book series that I’m too damn old for. (Harry Potter, Twilight) While…

by Raizel Liebler Matthew David & Debora Halbert’s Owning the World of Ideas: Intellectual Property and Global Network Capitalism (Sage 2015) is an excellent short…

So what possibly could romance novels featuring awkwardly-smooth-talking fictional Native Americans, plagiary, fans, and black-footed ferrets have in common? One bizarre detective story by a…

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…

by Shontavia Johnson Black. Lives. Matter. In the past three years, these three simple words have formed the foundation for one of the most prominent…

Every couple of years, there is a pop song that hits American culture with a boom, touching a musical creativity nerve center, leading to multiple…

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many months, Judge Patterson issued an opinion (PDF) in the Harry Potter Lexicon case, ruling that the Lexicon, could not be published and ordered…

James Boyle’s The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind is an excellent overview of the complexity of the modern intellectual property system. This…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFGs6U6Bnb4] Fandoms, like any type of subculture, have different shorthand ways of discussing things that only make sense within the group — such as frequently…