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The End Of Copyright, David Nimmer
The End Of Copyright, David Nimmer
Vanderbilt Law Review
One December 8, 1994, Congress ended the experiment that it commenced on May 31, 1790, in the first Judiciary Act:' legislating an autonomous body of United States copyright law governed by the Copyright Clause of the Constitution. We witnessed, on December 8, a major change of constitutional proportions; even more significantly, we experienced the first tremors of certain tectonic shifts in United States sovereignty; and, perhaps most significantly, we undertook a sea change in defining the end that copyright serves, the identity of the master in the copyright sphere.
I refer to enactment of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (the …
Of Agriculture's First Disobedience And Its Fruit, Jim Chen
Of Agriculture's First Disobedience And Its Fruit, Jim Chen
Vanderbilt Law Review
What God has created, agrarian debate has torn asunder. As successors to the neolithic agrarian pioneers' who chose to secure the blessings of agriculture to themselves and their posterity, we long to understand our common roots. But the deeper we dig, the more bitterly we dispute the exegesis of our shared stories of origins. Nothing has more explosive potential than a return to first principles, a quest for beginnings.
As the most palpable link between humanity and nature, agriculture often acts as a stark mirror of human values. American agricultural prescriptions frequently invoke the Book of Genesis, the grandest and …