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Intellectual Property Channeling For Digital Works, Lucas S. Osborn
Intellectual Property Channeling For Digital Works, Lucas S. Osborn
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Market economies are based on free competition, which can include copying. Yet intellectual property protection in the United States prohibits copying in certain circumstances to incentivize innovation and creativity. New breeds of digital works are challenging our historical application of intellectual property law. These include certain categories of software programs as well as digital manufacturing files. These new works look deceptively like works from a previous era and thus, courts might languorously treat them as they have older works. This would be a mistake. This Article analyzes these works in terms of existing intellectual property doctrine and constructs a normative …
"Assault Weapon" Myths, E. Gregory Wallace
Adopted Statements In The Digital Age: Hearsay Responses To Social Media "Likes", Daniel R. Tilly
Adopted Statements In The Digital Age: Hearsay Responses To Social Media "Likes", Daniel R. Tilly
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Social media users collectively register billions of "likes" each and every day to the endless flow of content posted on social networking websites. What an individual user actually intends by the quick click of the "like" button may vary widely. Perhaps she is conveying acknowledgement but not agreement. Maybe he is expressing support but not acceptance. Within the social media context, short-form clicks register the same response. Yet they may be intended to convey sorrow, joy, support, agreement, acknowledgement, humor, or a multitude of other emotions. What a user actually intends by social media "likes" depends entirely on the person …