Here at TLF, I’ve written a great deal about copyright, licensing, and labor. With the start of our forthcoming Seminar series, we will be paying…
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…
Matt Stahl’s Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work is an interesting book about the ways recording artists have been treated by California…
Critics of the limitations of the present copyright system often make suggestions like — Use Creative Commons licenses! Use public domain materials! Fair use is…
[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…
This is the abstract and a short conclusion from my recent AALS presentation; the article will be published in IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review….
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the…
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…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPpRnzO9Aw] This was supposed to be a book review of William Patry’s new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. However, while reading this book,…
The newspaper industry is having severe problems, but is changing copyright law the way to fix things? Richard Posner, highly regarded intellectual property scholar and…