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Intellectual Property Law

2002

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Patenting Our Lives And Our Genes: Where Does Congress Stand? Public Commet To Ftc Hearing On Competition And Intellectual Property Law And Policy In The Knowledge-Based Economy, Thomas Horton Oct 2002

Patenting Our Lives And Our Genes: Where Does Congress Stand? Public Commet To Ftc Hearing On Competition And Intellectual Property Law And Policy In The Knowledge-Based Economy, Thomas Horton

Thomas J. Horton

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Copyright And Time: A Proposal, Joseph Liu Oct 2002

Copyright And Time: A Proposal, Joseph Liu

Joseph P. Liu

This Article argues that courts should adjust the scope of copyright protection by considering time as a factor in fair use analysis. More specifically, the longer it has been since a copyrighted work was published, the greater the scope of fair use should be. Up to now, most of the debate over the role of time in copyright law has focused on the controversial issue of copyright duration and term extension. By focusing so narrowly on the end of the copyright term, however, this debate has neglected the more significant issue of how time should affect the scope of copyright …