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Caught In The Net Of Copyright, Peter Jaszi Apr 1996

Caught In The Net Of Copyright, Peter Jaszi

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As an overture to this Comment, I'd like to begin with one of my favorite passages from the recent National Information Infrastructure (NII)Task Force Working Group Report on Intellectual Property and the NII-the so-called White Paper.' The passage is not one of the deceptively bland legislative proposals-nor one of the strategic half-truths in the purported summary of current copyright law. Rather, it is a passage from the section on copyright awareness, and it is an excellent example of a good idea gone wrong. The good idea is that our elementary and secondary schools could take a role in preparing students …


Assaying Computer Associates V. Altai: How Will The Golden Nugget Test Pan Out, Walter Effross Jan 1993

Assaying Computer Associates V. Altai: How Will The Golden Nugget Test Pan Out, Walter Effross

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On The Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright And Collective Creativity, Peter Jaszi Jan 1992

On The Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright And Collective Creativity, Peter Jaszi

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As exemplified by the articles in this volume, recent scholarship on "authorship" reflects various influences. Among the most important are Michel Foucault's article, What is an Author?, and Benjamin Kaplan's book, An Unhurried View of Copyright. Since the late 1960s, these two texts have influenced work in literary and legal studies respectively. Only recently, however, have the lines of inquiry that Foucault and Kaplan helped to initiate begun to converge.


A Garland Of Reflections On Three International Copyright Topics, Peter Jaszi Jan 1989

A Garland Of Reflections On Three International Copyright Topics, Peter Jaszi

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The United States is a party to many copyright treaties, including a network of bilateral arrangements with other countries and one regional agreement. I will concentrate on the two major multilateral agreements to which the United States is a party, the Universal Copyright Convention ("UCC") and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works ("Berne Convention").


Who Cares Who Wrote "Shakespeare"?, Peter Jaszi Jan 1988

Who Cares Who Wrote "Shakespeare"?, Peter Jaszi

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Obviously, a great many people, on both (or all) sides of the "authorship question," and they care a lot. The real question is why. Proponents of various authorship claimants compete in their protestations of admiration for the plays and poems in controversy. But if these works are in fact so universally and inexhaustibly fertile of significance, why should any admirer of them waste precious time, which might better be devoted to the study of the texts themselves, arguing about an ultimately irresoluble historical puzzle? And why is so much of the discussion conducted at such a relatively high pitch of …


When Works Collide: Derivative Motion Pictures, Underlying Rights, And The Public Interest, Peter Jaszi Apr 1981

When Works Collide: Derivative Motion Pictures, Underlying Rights, And The Public Interest, Peter Jaszi

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Dramatic motion pictures' are prime examples of what copyright law terms "derivative works' because they are almost invariably based upon one or more prior works. Derivative works are so-called because they borrow from original works whether or not those works are in the same media. The universe of derivative works is broad. It encompasses everything from stuffed toys representing cartoon characters to translations of serious-minded literature.


The Gulag Archipelago: Implications For American Criminal Justice, Ira P. Robbins Jan 1980

The Gulag Archipelago: Implications For American Criminal Justice, Ira P. Robbins

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