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Who Owns A Joke? Copyright Law And Stand-Up Comedy, Scott Woodard
Who Owns A Joke? Copyright Law And Stand-Up Comedy, Scott Woodard
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Copyright laws are touted as the highest legal authorities by which artists can protect their works against all comers. However, when an artist's work fails to fit neatly into the statutory parameters needed to acquire copyright protection, that artist could receive no safeguards to ensure that their works will not be misappropriated by others.
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of two copyright regimes--from the United States and the United Kingdom--and measures their relative similarities and differences. From this comparison, this article explains how stand-up comedians, a group of artists who have traditionally believed their work was incapable of receiving …
Legal Jurisdiction And Virtual Social Life, Paul Schiff Berman
Legal Jurisdiction And Virtual Social Life, Paul Schiff Berman
Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology
Social lives are increasingly unmoored from physical location. 21st century developments in social media, virtual worlds, augmented reality, electronic financial transactions, drones, robotics, and artificial intelligence allow human beings to interact in more and more robust ways at a physical remove from their location. Meanwhile, the ubiquity of multinational corporations, global supply chains, and cloud-based data all mean that our lives are more likely to be affected by activity that is spatially distant. Virtual effects often replace direct territorial effects.
Three important consequences flow from this ubiquitous technology-enabled, data-driven virtual global societal activity. First, the territorial location of data …