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Give The Smaller Players A Chance: Shaping The Digital Economy Through Antitrust And Copyright Law, Douglas L. Rogers
Give The Smaller Players A Chance: Shaping The Digital Economy Through Antitrust And Copyright Law, Douglas L. Rogers
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
In this article, Mr. Rogers examines the tension in the digital world between the application of (a) antitrust law, which promotes competition and (b) copyright law, which limits competition in order to promote progress in science and art. He reviews the prohibitions against the exercise of monopoly power in section 2 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C.) and proposes a test for anti-competitive conduct that includes close scrutiny of the contract restrictions and marketing practices of those that have significant market power. Arguing that product design decisions are not immune from antitrust review, he proposes examining alleged efficiency justifications for …
Digital Copyright, By Jessica Litman , J. Ryan Miller
Digital Copyright, By Jessica Litman , J. Ryan Miller
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
Jessica Litman's book focuses on the Copyright Act, in relation to modern entertainment technology. For example, each time an image from the Internet is viewed through a personal computer, the viewer has reproduced the original image, because a computer's RAM makes a temporary copy in order to allow the image to be viewed. The entertainment industry's concern about potential copyright infringement resulted in the enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Professor Litman provides a history of the negotiation and lobbying that created the Copyright Act of 1976, and then provides a commentary regarding Napster and the expanding amount of …
Internet Service Provider's Liability For Copyright Infringement- How To Clear The Misty Indian Perspective, V.K. Unni
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
Only a fool would question the role and relevance of Internet Service Providers in promoting the Internet. But, unfortunately, Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") are at the receiving end of many disputes involving Intellectual Property violations. The difficulty in pinpointing the real culprit has resulted in a piquant situation where the Internet Service Provider is often taken to court. United States' courts and courts of other advanced countries have confronted this issue since 1993 and have finally enacted specific legislation to solve this mind-boggling issue. The Indian Information Technology Act 2000 ("The Act"), enacted with much hype, is almost silent on …
The Uncertain Future Of Fair Use In A Global Information Marketplace, Marshall Leaffer
The Uncertain Future Of Fair Use In A Global Information Marketplace, Marshall Leaffer
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The author of this article forecasts an increasingly troubled future, if not the demise of the doctrine of fair use in copyright law. Legal developments, both at home and abroad, driven by technological change, and the push toward the international harmonization of legal norms, threaten the very survival of fair use. Given these realities the doctrine will, of necessity, be reconceptualized Although fair use values will always be inscribed in copyright law, these values will have their practical manifestation in decentralized form, and effectuated, in large part, through industry agreement. They will exist in conjunction with certain bright line exceptions …