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Reform(Aliz)Ing Copyright, Chris Sprigman
Reform(Aliz)Ing Copyright, Chris Sprigman
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Reform(aliz)ing Copyright looks at the effect of the removal from the U.S. copyright laws of copyright formalities like registration, notice, and renewal. Beginning in 1976, the U.S. moved from a “conditional” copyright system that premised the existence and continuation of copyright on compliance with formalities, to an “unconditional” system, where copyright arises automatically when a work is “fixed”. Richard Epstein has aptly characterized these changes as “copyright law . . . flipping over from a system that protected only rights that were claimed to one that vests all rights, whether claimed or not.” That is a fundamental shift in any …
The End Of Software Piracy In Eastern Europe? A Positive Outlook With International Help, Allison M. Collisson
The End Of Software Piracy In Eastern Europe? A Positive Outlook With International Help, Allison M. Collisson
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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The (New?) Right Of Making Available To The Public, Jane C. Ginsburg
The (New?) Right Of Making Available To The Public, Jane C. Ginsburg
Faculty Scholarship
I am honoured to contribute to this Festschrift for Bill Cornish, the leading exponent of the English (even if many of them are in fact Anzacs) School of Copyright and Intellectual Property. In addition to greatly valuing his scholarship, I hold Bill in especial esteem for his unswerving sanity in ALAI meetings, and for the piano duets in which he occasionally indulges my spouse. The following essay is offered in the spirit of international inquisitiveness that has animated so many of my contacts with Bill.