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Database Protection In The United States Is Alive And Well: Comments On Davison, Marshall A. Leaffer
Database Protection In The United States Is Alive And Well: Comments On Davison, Marshall A. Leaffer
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Authorship In The Age Of The Conducer, Erez Reuveni
Authorship In The Age Of The Conducer, Erez Reuveni
Erez Reuveni
The age of centralized information production is over. Today, countless creative enterprises involve decentralized collaboration by hundreds of end-users. Yet, the Copyright Act's last major revision occurred over thirty years ago, when a centralized, corporate model of production was the primary means of delivering information products on a mass-market scale. This Article contends that several features of the Copyright Act, remnants of this earlier corporate-driven era, are outmoded and fail to offer optimal incentives for the decentralized, non-profit-driven model of creative production utilized by many in the software and information-production fields. Specifically, the Copyright Act assumes creativity stems from the …