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From Bards To Search Engines: Finding What Readers Want From Ancient Times To The World Wide Web, Stephen Maurer
From Bards To Search Engines: Finding What Readers Want From Ancient Times To The World Wide Web, Stephen Maurer
Stephen M. Maurer
Copyright theorists often ask how incentives can be designed to create better books, movies, and art. But this is not the whole story. As the Roman satirist Martial pointed out two thousand years ago, markets routinely ignore good and even excellent works. The insight reminds us that incentives to find content are just as necessary as incentives to make it. Recent social science research explains why markets fail and how timely interventions can save deserving titles from oblivion. This article reviews society’s long struggle to fix the vagaries of search since the invention of literature. We build on this history …
Advocacy In Ip Litigation In The Supreme Court: A Presentation By Justice Marshall Rothstein Of The Supreme Court Of Canada, Marshall Rothstein, David Vaver
Advocacy In Ip Litigation In The Supreme Court: A Presentation By Justice Marshall Rothstein Of The Supreme Court Of Canada, Marshall Rothstein, David Vaver
David Vaver
The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada shares his thoughts regarding the five important copyright cases (known as the “Copyright Pentalogy”) that he took part in deciding earlier this year.
Copyright Exceptions As Users’ Rights? An Empirical Critique, Emily Hudson, Giuseppina D'Agostino
Copyright Exceptions As Users’ Rights? An Empirical Critique, Emily Hudson, Giuseppina D'Agostino
Giuseppina D'Agostino
Dr. Emily Hudson, the Career Development Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford, questions the prevailing legal and academic perceptions of the CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada (2004 SCC 13) judgment.
Lawful Personal Use, Jessica Litman
Lawful Personal Use, Jessica Litman
Jessica Litman
Whenever someone makes a copy of a copyrighted work, that copy is either authorized by the copyright owner, permitted by some express provision of the copyright statute (such as the ephemeral copy provision in section 112 or the fair use provision in section 107), or infringing. That's what we tell our colleagues and what we teach our students. But most of us don't actually believe it, and this article argues that that understanding of the copyright law is wrong. I make this argument by examining the copyright law through the lens of personal use. Unlike many other jurisdictions, the United …
Open Source Software The Success Of An Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm, Marcus Maher
Open Source Software The Success Of An Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm, Marcus Maher
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Internet And Decisional Institutions The Structural Advantages Of Online Common Law Regulation, Thomas K. Richards
The Internet And Decisional Institutions The Structural Advantages Of Online Common Law Regulation, Thomas K. Richards
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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Special 301 In China And Mexico: A Policy Which Fails To Consider How Politics, Economics, And Culture Affect Legal Change Under Civil Law Systems Of Developing Countries, Keshia B. Haskins
Special 301 In China And Mexico: A Policy Which Fails To Consider How Politics, Economics, And Culture Affect Legal Change Under Civil Law Systems Of Developing Countries, Keshia B. Haskins
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.