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J.D. Salinger And Copyright's Rule Of The Shorter Term, E. Townsend Gard
J.D. Salinger And Copyright's Rule Of The Shorter Term, E. Townsend Gard
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Recently, the small publishing house Devault-Graves took on the Salinger Estate in an, almost, epic battle to determine whether the copyright term had ended on three of Salinger's early short stories in each country around the world. Devault-Graves wanted a declaratory judgment stating that if the copyright term had expired in the United States, it would have expired in all other countries with a "rule of the shorter term" (RST). But copyright is never that simple, as Devault-Graves soon found out. This short-lived case provides a useful lens through which to view the property rights as defined by the "limited" …
Honest Copying Practices, Joseph P. Fishman
Honest Copying Practices, Joseph P. Fishman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
One of intellectual property theory’s operating assumptions is that creating is hard while copying is easy. But it is not always so. Copies, though outwardly identical, can come from different processes, from cheap digital duplication to laborious handmade re-creation. Policymakers around the world face a choice whether such distinctions should affect liability. The two branches of intellectual property that condition liability on actual copying, copyright and trade secrecy, give different answers. Both in the United States and elsewhere, trade secrecy regimes distinguish between copying methods deemed illegitimate and those deemed legitimate, what international treaties call “honest commercial practices.” Copyright regimes, …