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Intellectual Property Law

Jessica Silbey

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Intellectual property

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Surveying Recent Scholarship On Fair Use: A Conversation, Jessica M. Silbey Jan 2013

Surveying Recent Scholarship On Fair Use: A Conversation, Jessica M. Silbey

Jessica Silbey

A conversation about recent books discussing copyright fair use with Rebecca Tushnet, Peter Decherney and Bill Herman.


Images In/Of Law, Jessica M. Silbey Jan 2012

Images In/Of Law, Jessica M. Silbey

Jessica Silbey

The proliferation of images in and of law lends itself to surprisingly complex problems of epistemology and power. Understanding through images is innate; most of us easily understand images without thinking. But arriving at mutually agreeable understandings of images is also difficult. Translating images into shared words leads to multiple problems inherent in translation and that pose problems for justice. Despite our saturated imagistic culture, we have not established methods to pursue that translation process with confidence. This article explains how images are intuitively understood and yet collectively inscrutable, posing unique problems for resolving legal conflicts that demand common and …