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A Balance Of Interests: The Concordance Of Copyright Law And Moral Rights In The Worldwide Economy, Michael B. Gunlicks
A Balance Of Interests: The Concordance Of Copyright Law And Moral Rights In The Worldwide Economy, Michael B. Gunlicks
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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Introduction: From Sheet Music To Mp3 Files—A Brief Perspective On Napster, Harold R. Weinberg
Introduction: From Sheet Music To Mp3 Files—A Brief Perspective On Napster, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The Napster case is the current cause celebre of the digital age. The story has color. It involves music-sharing technology invented by an eighteen-year-old college dropout whose high school classmates nicknamed him "The Napster" on account of his perpetually kinky hair. The story has drama. Depending on your perspective, it pits rapacious big music companies against poor and hardworking students who just want to enjoy some tunes; or it pits creative and industrious music companies seeking a fair return on their invested effort, time, and money against greedy and irreverent music thieves. And the case has importance. Music maybe intellectual …
Digital Performance Royalties: Should Radio Pay?, Bruce H. Phillips, Carl R. Moore
Digital Performance Royalties: Should Radio Pay?, Bruce H. Phillips, Carl R. Moore
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
We must acknowledge that some questions remain unanswered. Have we entered an era in which record labels, recording artists, record producers, and musicians will finally earn royalties for the public performance of their creations? Will the recent Copyright Office action be a watershed development in United States copyright law? Or will the broadcasters and their well-funded and powerful lobbying arm, the NAB, prevail in the end--if not in the courts, then in Congress? The only clear answer is simply this: not if the RIAA, the record labels' own well-funded and powerful lobbying arm, has anything to do with it. It …
Have Moral Rights Come Of (Digital) Age In The United States?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Have Moral Rights Come Of (Digital) Age In The United States?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Faculty Scholarship
More than any other contemporary American legal scholar, Professor Merryman has drawn attention to the moral rights claims of artists. Anything written in the field in the United States since 1976 owes inspiration to The Refrigerator of Bernard Buffet ("The Refrigerator") Professor Merryman's seminal article in the 1976 Hastings Law Journal. I feel this particularly acutely since I became interested in the issue as a law student, in 1978. It looked like a hopeful time, for Professor Merryman had shown the way, and the Second Circuit, in the then-recently decided Monty Python case, seemed to be paying heed. The …