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Whose Music Is It Anyway? How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form Of Property, Michael W. Carroll Jan 2004

Whose Music Is It Anyway? How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form Of Property, Michael W. Carroll

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

Many participants in the music industry consider unauthorized transmissions of music files over the Internet to be theft of their property. Many Internet users who exchange music files reject this characterization. Prompted by the dispute over unauthorized music distribution, this Article explores how those who create and distribute music first came to look upon music as their property and when in Western history the law first supported this view. By analyzing the economic and legal structures governing music making in Western Europe from the classical period in Greece through the Renaissance, the Article shows that the law first granted some …


Institutions Of Learning Or Havens For Illegal Activities: How The Supreme Court Views Libraries, 25 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 1 (2004), Raizel Liebler Jan 2004

Institutions Of Learning Or Havens For Illegal Activities: How The Supreme Court Views Libraries, 25 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 1 (2004), Raizel Liebler

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

The role of libraries in American society is varied: libraries act as curators and repositories of American culture's recorded knowledge, as places to communicate with others, and as sources where one can gain information from books, magazines and other printed materials, as well as audio-video materials and the Internet. Courts in the United States have called libraries "the quintessential locus of the receipt of information, "'places that are "dedicated to quiet, to knowledge, and to beauty," and "a mighty resource in the free marketplace of ideas." These positive views of libraries are often in sharp contrast with views by some …


Website Operators And Misappropriators Beware - The California Supreme Court Holds A Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Internet Posting Of Dvd Decryption Source Code Does Not Violate The First Amendment In Dvd Copy Control Association, Inc. V. Bunner, Nick Washburn Jan 2004

Website Operators And Misappropriators Beware - The California Supreme Court Holds A Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Internet Posting Of Dvd Decryption Source Code Does Not Violate The First Amendment In Dvd Copy Control Association, Inc. V. Bunner, Nick Washburn

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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Corinthians Soccer Loses By Decision In Second Round Play-Off Over Corinthians.Com In Sallen V. Corinthians Licenciamentos Ltda, Clark D. Robertson Jan 2004

Corinthians Soccer Loses By Decision In Second Round Play-Off Over Corinthians.Com In Sallen V. Corinthians Licenciamentos Ltda, Clark D. Robertson

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal

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A Pattern-Oriented Approach To Fair Use, Michael J. Madison Jan 2004

A Pattern-Oriented Approach To Fair Use, Michael J. Madison

Articles

More than 150 years into development of the doctrine of "fair use" in American copyright law, there is no end to legislative, judicial, and academic efforts to rationalize the doctrine. Its codification in the 1976 Copyright Act appears to have contributed to its fragmentation, rather than to its coherence. This Article suggests that fair use is neither badly conceived nor badly applied, but that it is too often badly understood. As did much of copyright law, fair use originated as a judicially-unacknowledged effort via the law to validate certain favored social practices and patterns. In the main, it has continued …