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=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many months, Judge Patterson issued an opinion (PDF) in the Harry Potter Lexicon case, ruling that the Lexicon, could not be published and ordered…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 New York Times has a very odd article about Girl Talk and copyright, originally subtitled “DJ flouts copyright law”, now “DJ skirts copyright law”…
For those looking for information about a movie that involves a certain Chinese symbol that is derivative of Cowboy Bebop — sorry! But there is…
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…