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….
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-cU4S4lDH0] When is something a quotation or a reference and when is it a sample that needs to be licensed? According to a recent Sixth…
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…
Harvard University recently has taken two very divergent approaches to copyright. I commend Harvard on the one hand for their open access policy, and on…
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…
Ignoring cultural context has led to some incredibly bizarre cease-and-desist notices recently. Yet intellectual property and culture are tied together. New works are not created…
We write about Nine Inch Nails a lot around here at Learned Fangirl. It’s not just because at least one of us is a hugely…
Some stick with reading comics for their entire lives (the norm in Japan, though the type changes over the lifetime), while others put them away…
[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…
[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…