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The Copyright Act’S Mandatory-Deposit Requirement: Unnecessary And Unconstitutional, Drew Thornley
The Copyright Act’S Mandatory-Deposit Requirement: Unnecessary And Unconstitutional, Drew Thornley
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
Many people are unaware of a federal copyright statute that requires owners of material published in the United States to furnish the federal government with two copies of each item published. Section 407(a) of the Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. § 407) states that “the owner of copyright or of the exclusive right of publication in a work published in the United States shall deposit, within three months after the date of such publication—(1) two complete copies of the best edition; or (2) if the work is a sound recording, two complete phonorecords of the best edition, together with …
A Copy Of A Copy Of A Copy: Internet Mimesis And The Copyrightability Of Memes, Elena Elmerinda Scialabba
A Copy Of A Copy Of A Copy: Internet Mimesis And The Copyrightability Of Memes, Elena Elmerinda Scialabba
Duke Law & Technology Review
No abstract provided.
The Formation Of A National Legal System Against Cultural Piracy, O. Okyulov
The Formation Of A National Legal System Against Cultural Piracy, O. Okyulov
Review of law sciences
This article describes the peculiarity of piracy as a legal category, and as a system of offenses. Different views from scientific researches and literatures on combating piracy are analyzed. The article also elaborates and supports conceptual decisions on combating piracy in Uzbekistan. At present, it is clearly seen that cultural piracy has become widespread as an offense, while the public attitude in the form of censure is rather weakly expressed. It is noted that in order for Uzbekistan to enter the WTO and increase the international rating, in our country it is necessary to take drastic measures against cultural piracy. …
Copyright In The Texts Of The Law: Historical Perspectives, Charles Duan
Copyright In The Texts Of The Law: Historical Perspectives, Charles Duan
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Recently, state governments have begun to claim a copyright interest in their official published codes of law, in particular arguing that ancillary materials such as annotations to the statutory text are subject to state-held copyright protection because those materials are not binding commands that carry the force of law. Litigation over this issue and a vigorous policy debate are ongoing.
This article contributes a historical perspective to this ongoing debate over copyright in texts relating to the law. It reviews the history of government production and use of annotations, commentaries, legislative debates, and other related information relevant to the law …
Visual Appropriation Art, Transformativeness, And Fungibility, Jasmine C. Abdel-Khalik
Visual Appropriation Art, Transformativeness, And Fungibility, Jasmine C. Abdel-Khalik
Faculty Works
As an intentionally flexible doctrine, fair use in copyright has a long history of ambiguity and criticism. While courts have developed various standards and considerations to give fair use some shape, key decisions have generally done so in the context of textual material. Likewise, the examples in Judge Leval’s seminal work on fair use involve textual material. His argument to assess the first fair use factor based on transformativeness has won the day. But in contrast to the textual examples, interpreting the meaning and transformation of visual works is rife with danger.
Recent appropriation art cases exemplify this danger and …
Sample-Based Hip-Hop Music And Fair Use Laws In The Age Of Streaming Services, Michael Vanbuhler
Sample-Based Hip-Hop Music And Fair Use Laws In The Age Of Streaming Services, Michael Vanbuhler
Senior Theses
This thesis takes an in depth look at the history and processes behind creating sample-based music. Sampling was popularized during the beginnings of hip-hop music and now a wide variety of genres use samples or techniques created by sample-based music. Early hip-hop beats took samples of drum breaks or a portion of a track from another artist or band. As hip-hop grew in the late 80s and early 90s, the use of samples became a question of intellectual property rights and if it was acceptable to sample someone’s copyrighted work. Lawsuits in the early 90’s helped to create new caselaw …
Fair Use In Oracle: Proximate Cause At The Copyright/Patent Divide, Wendy J. Gordon
Fair Use In Oracle: Proximate Cause At The Copyright/Patent Divide, Wendy J. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
In Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC, the Federal Circuit undermined copyright law’s deference to patent law and, in doing so, delivered a blow to both regimes. Copyright’s deference— including a historic refusal to enforce rights that might undermine the public’s liberty to copy unpatented inventions-- is a necessary part of preserving inventors’ willingness to accept the short duration, mandatory disclosure, and other stringent bargains demanded by patent law. Deference to patent law is also integral to copyright law’s interior architecture; copyright’s refusal to monopolize functional applications of creative work lowers the social costs that would otherwise be imposed by …
Automation In Moderation, Hannah Bloch-Wehba
Automation In Moderation, Hannah Bloch-Wehba
Faculty Scholarship
This Article assesses recent efforts to encourage online platforms to use automated means to prevent the dissemination of unlawful online content before it is ever seen or distributed. As lawmakers in Europe and around the world closely scrutinize platforms’ “content moderation” practices, automation and artificial intelligence appear increasingly attractive options for ridding the Internet of many kinds of harmful online content, including defamation, copyright infringement, and terrorist speech. Proponents of these initiatives suggest that requiring platforms to screen user content using automation will promote healthier online discourse and will aid efforts to limit Big Tech’s power.
In fact, however, the …
The Clash Between Terrestrial And Digital Radio: Pinned By The Music Modernization Act, Dianlyn Cenidoza
The Clash Between Terrestrial And Digital Radio: Pinned By The Music Modernization Act, Dianlyn Cenidoza
Seattle University Law Review
Copyright law, specifically music licensing, has long been outdated due to changes in the way people listen to music. With the proliferation of technology, listeners can now enjoy music via channels that did not exist just a few decades ago. As a consequence, music creators have faced years of economic inequality. Songwriters, artists, and musicians have fought a long, and often fruitless, battle for justice—legislation that would change music law for the better has continuously been struck down. However, in 2018, the Music Modernization Act (MMA) was signed into law, representing a battle won for music creators. This Comment will …
Who Owns The Law? Why We Must Restore Public Ownership Of Legal Publishing, Leslie A. Street, David R. Hansen
Who Owns The Law? Why We Must Restore Public Ownership Of Legal Publishing, Leslie A. Street, David R. Hansen
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
Each state has its own method for officially publishing the law. This article looks at the history of legal publishing for the fifty states before looking at how legal publishing even in moving to electronic publishing may not ensure public access to the law. The article addresses barriers to free access to the law in electronic publishing including copyright, contract law, and potentially, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The article concludes with prescriptions for how different actors, including state governments, publishers, libraries, and others can ensure robust public access to the law moving forward.
Rent For Rent: Making A Living By Licensing Your Music, Jessica Muñiz-Collado
Rent For Rent: Making A Living By Licensing Your Music, Jessica Muñiz-Collado
CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia
Wouldn’t it be great if a composer, music producer, or songwriter could pay their rent by “renting” out their music? This demonstration will simplify the music licensing process, focus on researching music libraries, preparing songs for submissions and much more.
Copyright, Fair Use, And Creative Commons: An Active-Learning Exercise For Studio Art Students, Arthur J. Boston
Copyright, Fair Use, And Creative Commons: An Active-Learning Exercise For Studio Art Students, Arthur J. Boston
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
This article describes an active-learning exercise intended to help teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licenses. In the exercise students use a worksheet to draw original pictures, create derivative pictures on tracing paper, select Creative Commons licenses, and explore commercial usage, fair use, and copyright infringement. Librarian-instructors may find the completed worksheets to be useful aids to supplement copyright lectures; student perspectives will be integral because they are generating the examples used in discussion. Although a scholarly communication librarian developed this exercise to help introduce some basic copyright information to an undergraduate studio art and design class, the exercise …
Google V. Oracle Amicus Merits Stage Brief: Vindicating Ip’S Channeling Principle And Restoring Jurisdictional Balance To Software Copyright Protection, Peter Menell, David Nimmer, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Google V. Oracle Amicus Merits Stage Brief: Vindicating Ip’S Channeling Principle And Restoring Jurisdictional Balance To Software Copyright Protection, Peter Menell, David Nimmer, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
All Faculty Scholarship
The Federal Circuit’s decisions in Oracle v. Google conflict with this Court’s seminal decision in Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879), misinterpret Congress’s codification of this Court’s fundamental channeling principle and related limiting doctrines, and upend nearly three decades of sound, well-settled, and critically important decisions of multiple regional circuits on the scope of copyright protection for computer software. Based on the fundamental channeling principle enunciated in Baker v. Selden, as reflected in § 102(b) of the Copyright Act, the functional requirements of APIs for computer systems and devices, like the internal workings of other machines, are …
Copyright And Libraries: Georgia State Copyright Lawsuit, Laura Burtle
Copyright And Libraries: Georgia State Copyright Lawsuit, Laura Burtle
University Library Faculty Publications
Overview of the litigation between academic publishers and Georgia State University and the University System of Georgia regarding the use of electronic reserves. The chapter covers the fair use findings of the district and appellate courts and provides background on the case.
Bridging Race + Ip: The Challenges And Potential Of Utilizing Transdisciplinary Methods To Undo The Unbearable Whiteness Of Intellectual Property, Deidre Keller
Faculty Books and Book Contributions
This chapter is part of Approaches and Methodologies in Intellectual Property Research edited by Irene Calboli and Maria Lilla.
Brief Fof The R Street Institutte, Public Knowledge, And The Niskanen Center As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioner, Charles Duan, Meredith F. Rose
Brief Fof The R Street Institutte, Public Knowledge, And The Niskanen Center As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioner, Charles Duan, Meredith F. Rose
Amicus Briefs
The Java SE declarations of this case are simply a language of commands. As an application programming interface, or API, they exhibit features common to any language: a structured vocabulary and grammatical syntaxes, which a computer system understands as instructions to perform predefined tasks. What Oracle accuses as infringement is “reimplementation,” namely the building of a system, in this case Google’s Android platform, that repurposes the same words and syntaxes of the Java declarations.
A Siri-Ous Societal Issue: Should Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Receive Patent Or Copyright Protection?, Samuel Scholz
A Siri-Ous Societal Issue: Should Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Receive Patent Or Copyright Protection?, Samuel Scholz
Cybaris®
No abstract provided.
Copyright Law's Impact On Machine Intelligence In The United States And The European Union, Matthew Sag
Copyright Law's Impact On Machine Intelligence In The United States And The European Union, Matthew Sag
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Fine Art Of Rummaging: Successors And The Life Cycle Of Copyright, Eva E. Subotnik
The Fine Art Of Rummaging: Successors And The Life Cycle Of Copyright, Eva E. Subotnik
Faculty Publications
This chapter argues that a possible justification for the extension of copyright beyond the death of the author is the key role that copyright successors may serve in the life cycle of artistic works. In particular, with respect to an artist’s unpublished work, a time-sensitive decision must be made about whether or not to keep the physical artifacts associated with copyrights—an obligation that often falls to these successors. Bulky canvases, sketches, negatives, and myriad other items must be sifted through in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. In this way, the post-death cleanup period offers a once-in-a-lifetime event …
Artificial Creativity: A Case Against Copyright For Ai-Created Visual Artwork, Megan Svedman
Artificial Creativity: A Case Against Copyright For Ai-Created Visual Artwork, Megan Svedman
IP Theory
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly complex, and provides examples of compelling, human-like performances. One such artificial intelligence technology is known as Creative Adversarial Network (“CAN”) technology, which relies on inputs of preexisting pieces of art to create pieces of original art that pass as human-made. Whether the coders responsible for CAN-technology should be granted coverage for the resultant art remains an open question in United States jurisprudence. This paper seeks to explore why, given both software’s historical legacy in copyright law and bedrock copyright justifications, extending copyright coverage to the coders responsible for CAN technology would be a grave misstep …
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, And Copyright Infringement, Zach Naqvi
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, And Copyright Infringement, Zach Naqvi
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
None.
Introduction: What Is Real? Authenticity, Transparency, And Trust In The Digital Age Of Fashion, Joseph M. Forgione
Introduction: What Is Real? Authenticity, Transparency, And Trust In The Digital Age Of Fashion, Joseph M. Forgione
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Copyright & Fashion: The Shoe That Does Not Fit, Cassandra Baloga
Copyright & Fashion: The Shoe That Does Not Fit, Cassandra Baloga
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Machine As Author, Daniel J. Gervais
The Machine As Author, Daniel J. Gervais
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Machines are increasingly good at emulating humans and laying siege to what has been a strictly human outpost: intellectual creativity.
At this juncture, we cannot know with certainty how high machines will reach on the creativity ladder when compared to, or measured against, their human counterparts, but we do know this. They are far enough already to force us to ask a genuinely hard and complex question, one that intellectual property (“IP”) scholars and courts will need to answer soon; namely, whether copyrights should be granted to productions made not by humans but by machines.
This Article’s specific objective is …
How Conceptual Art Challenges Copyright's Notions Of Authorial Control And Creativity, Christopher Buccafusco
How Conceptual Art Challenges Copyright's Notions Of Authorial Control And Creativity, Christopher Buccafusco
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Against Progress: Interventions About Equality In Supreme Court Cases About Copyright Law, Jessica Silbey
Against Progress: Interventions About Equality In Supreme Court Cases About Copyright Law, Jessica Silbey
Faculty Scholarship
This symposium essay is adapted from my forthcoming book Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (Stanford University Press 2021 forthcoming). The book’s primary argument is that, with the rise of digital technology and the ubiquity of the internet, intellectual property law is becoming a mainstream part of law and culture. This mainstreaming of IP has particular effects, one of which is the surfacing of on-going debates about “progress of science and the useful arts,” which is the constitutional purpose of intellectual property rights.
In brief, Against Progress describes how in the 20th century intellectual property …
The Hidden Transactional Wisdom Of Media Discrimination In Pre-Awcpa Copyright, Kevin Emerson Collins
The Hidden Transactional Wisdom Of Media Discrimination In Pre-Awcpa Copyright, Kevin Emerson Collins
Scholarship@WashULaw
Media neutrality in copyright’s subject matter means that works of authorship are protected against copying, or not, regardless of the tangible medium in which they are fixed. For example, the same features of a sculptural work are protected regardless of whether they are fixed in a statue or a photograph of a statue. Media neutrality in subject matter is a fundamental and largely unquestioned copyright principle with a firm policy basis under copyright’s dominant incentive-to-create theory. Media discrimination in subject matter undermines in arbitrary ways authors’ ability to recoup their creativity costs over the sale of multiple copies.
This Article …
Abandoning Copyright, Dave Fagundes, Aaron K. Perzanowski
Abandoning Copyright, Dave Fagundes, Aaron K. Perzanowski
Faculty Publications
For nearly two hundred years, U.S. copyright law has assumed that owners may voluntarily abandon their rights in a work. But scholars have largely ignored copyright abandonment, and the case law is fragmented and inconsistent. As a result, abandonment remains poorly theorized, owners can avail themselves of no reliable mechanism to abandon their works, and the practice remains rare. This Article seeks to bring copyright abandonment out of the shadows, showing that it is a doctrine rich in conceptual, normative, and practical significance. Unlike abandonment of real and chattel property, which imposes significant public costs in exchange for discrete private …
Unscrewing The Future: The Right To Repair And The Circumvention Of Software Tpms In The Eu, Anthony D. Rosborough
Unscrewing The Future: The Right To Repair And The Circumvention Of Software Tpms In The Eu, Anthony D. Rosborough
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
This analysis examines the impact of software technological protection measures (“TPMs”) in the European Union which inhibit the repair and maintenance of products. Using John Deere tractors as a case study, this analysis addresses the growing number of products which incorporate computerisation and TPMprotected software into their design and function. In utilising software integration and TPMs, many product designs now allow manufacturers to retain considerable control over the manner of repair and choice of technician. In response, consumers and lawmakers are calling for legal reforms to make self-repair and servicing easier. Both the competition law and moral implications of this …
Copyright And Economic Viability: Evidence From The Music Industry, Kristelia García, James Hicks, Justin Mccrary
Copyright And Economic Viability: Evidence From The Music Industry, Kristelia García, James Hicks, Justin Mccrary
Publications
Copyright provides a long term of legal excludability, ostensibly to encourage the production of new creative works. How long this term should last, and the extent to which current law aligns with the economic incentives of copyright owners, has been the subject of vigorous theoretical debate. We investigate the economic viability of content in a major content industry—commercial music—using a novel longitudinal dataset of weekly sales and streaming counts. We find that the typical sound recording has an extremely short commercial half-life—on the order of months, rather than years or decades—but also see evidence that subscription streaming services are extending …