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Game Over For First Sale, Stephen J. Mcintyre
Game Over For First Sale, Stephen J. Mcintyre
Stephen J McIntyre
Video game companies have long considered secondhand game retailers a threat to their bottom lines. With the next generation of gaming consoles on the horizon, some companies are experimenting with technological tools to discourage and even prevent gamers from buying and selling used games. Most significantly, a recent patent application describes a system for suppressing secondhand sales by permanently identifying game discs with a single video game console. This technology flies in the face of copyright law’s “first sale” doctrine, which gives lawful purchasers the right to sell, lease, and lend DVDs, CDs, and other media. This Article answers a …
Private Rights And Public Wrongs: Fair Use As A Remedy For Private Censorship, Stephen J. Mcintyre
Private Rights And Public Wrongs: Fair Use As A Remedy For Private Censorship, Stephen J. Mcintyre
Stephen J McIntyre
Copyright law seeks to promote the public welfare by incentivizing the creation and publication of art, literature, and other original works of authorship. The law bestows exclusive economic rights in expression, which allow copyright holders to exploit the commercial value of their creations in the marketplace. This affords a high degree of control over when and how others use copyright-protected works. These rights, however, are not absolute. The 'fair use' doctrine has traditionally permitted unauthorized and uncompensated uses of copyrighted material for socially beneficial purposes. Under current jurisprudence, the fair use analysis is dominated by concerns about market harm. The …
Trying To Agree On Three Articles Of Law: The Idea/Expression Dichotomy In Chinese Copyright Law, Stephen J. Mcintyre
Trying To Agree On Three Articles Of Law: The Idea/Expression Dichotomy In Chinese Copyright Law, Stephen J. Mcintyre
Stephen J McIntyre
The idea/expression dichotomy, which holds that copyright protection extends only to expression, but not to ideas, is internationally recognized as a basic principle of copyright law. Yet despite the doctrine’s fundamental importance, China has not codified it in its general copyright statute. This legislative failure threatens to undermine the public-oriented goals of copyright and presents a dilemma to Chinese courts, which are not authorized to make or develop doctrine through recognition of judicial precedent. This Article provides the first in-depth study in English of the idea/expression dichotomy in Chinese copyright law. It demonstrates that, even though the doctrine is not …