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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Flourishing Race: How The Success Of American Indian Artist-Entrepreneurs Underscores The Need For Enhanced Legal Protections For Native Intellectual Property, Jessica Roberts
American Indian Law Journal
No abstract provided.
A Natural Right To Copy, Glynn Lunney
A Natural Right To Copy, Glynn Lunney
Faculty Scholarship
In this symposium, we gather to celebrate the work of Wendy Gordon. In this essay, I revisit her article, A Property Right in Self-Expression: Equality and Individualism in the Natural Law of Intellectual Property. In the article, Professor Gordon first used the "no-harm" principle of John Locke to justify copyright as natural right and then used his “enough-and-as-good” proviso to limit that right. Her second step turned natural rights approaches to copyright on its head. Through it, she showed that even if we accept copyright as natural right, that acceptance does not necessarily lead to a copyright of undue breadth …
Death Of Copyright, Paul Gugliuzza
Death Of Copyright, Paul Gugliuzza
Faculty Scholarship
The four primary bodies of intellectual property law—patent law, copyright law, trademark law, and the law of trade secrets—address the question of duration in different ways. Trade secrets have no fixed duration; the law protects against misappropriation as long as the relevant information remains secret. Trademark protection lasts as long as the mark retains its capacity to distinguish the goods or services it is attached to. In patent law—my primary area of scholarship—duration is fixed, finite, and generally straightforward to determine: you get twenty years from the date you file your patent application. Copyright duration, by contrast, varies depending on …
Code Revision Commission V. Public.Resource.Org And The Fight Over Copyright Protection For Annotations And Commentary, David E. Shipley
Code Revision Commission V. Public.Resource.Org And The Fight Over Copyright Protection For Annotations And Commentary, David E. Shipley
Georgia Law Review
This Article analyzes Code Revision Commission v. Public.Resource.Org, a 2018 decision in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit applied the public edicts doctrine and held that Georgia’s copyright on the annotations, commentary, and analyses in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated is invalid. The U.S. Supreme Court granted Georgia’s Petition for a Writ of Certiorari on June 24, 2019. About a third of states claim copyright in the annotations to their codes, so the potential impact of this decision is substantial.
This Article’s thesis is that the Eleventh Circuit was wrong and should be reversed. It …
Copyrighting Experiences: How Copyright Law Applies To Virtual Reality Programs, Alexis Dunne
Copyrighting Experiences: How Copyright Law Applies To Virtual Reality Programs, Alexis Dunne
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
This note will attempt to shed light on the question of what kind of protection copyright law affords VR experiences. Part II discusses the nature of VR experiences and their implementation through specifically tailored VR technology. Part III provides an overview of copyright protection, its limitations, and specifically the history of the copyrightability of computer programs. Parts IV and V outline case law relevant to the discussion of the copyrightability of different types of VR experiences and how that case law similarly or dissimilarly apply to the protection of VR experiences. Part IV focuses on protecting VR experiences as a …
The Uncopyrightability Of Edicts Of Government, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Peter S. Menell
The Uncopyrightability Of Edicts Of Government, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Peter S. Menell
All Faculty Scholarship
This amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court appeal of Georgia, et al., v. Public.Resource.Org.,explores the interplay of copyright law and the edicts of government doctrine. The “edicts of government” doctrine was first validated by the U.S. Supreme Court in a series of nineteenth century cases. Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) 591 (1834); Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Callaghan v. Meyers, 128 U.S. 617 (1888). While the doctrine has never been directly recognized in the express wording of the copyright statute, it is nevertheless firmly rooted in foundational copyright principles that are …
Improper Appropriation, Daniel J. Gervais
Improper Appropriation, Daniel J. Gervais
Daniel J Gervais
The traditional (Arnstein) test for copyright infringement is satisfied when the owner of a valid copyright establishes unauthorized copying by the defendant. To demonstrate unauthorized copying, one of the major tests is that the plaintiff must first show that her work was actually copied; second, she must establish substantial similarity and/or that the copying amounts to an improper or unlawful appropriation. The second prong is satisfied when (i) protected expression in the earlier work was copied and (ii) the amount of the copyrighted work that is copied must be more than de minimis. This Article examines, first, how impropriety has …
Exploring The Interfaces Between Big Data And Intellectual Property Law, Daniel J. Gervais
Exploring The Interfaces Between Big Data And Intellectual Property Law, Daniel J. Gervais
Daniel J Gervais
This article reviews the application of several IP rights (copyright, patent, sui generis database right, data exclusivity and trade secret) to Big Data. Beyond the protection of software used to collect and process Big Data corpora, copyright’s traditional role is challenged by the relatively unstructured nature of the non-relational (noSQL) databases typical of Big Data corpora. This also impacts the application of the EU sui generis right in databases. Misappropriation (tort-based) or anti-parasitic behaviour protection might apply, where available, to data generated by AI systems that has high but short-lived value. Copyright in material contained in Big Data corpora must …
The Trademark/Copyright Divide, Laura A. Heymann
The Trademark/Copyright Divide, Laura A. Heymann
Laura A. Heymann
No abstract provided.
Overlapping Intellectual Property Doctrines: Election Of Rights Versus Selection Of Remedies, Laura A. Heymann
Overlapping Intellectual Property Doctrines: Election Of Rights Versus Selection Of Remedies, Laura A. Heymann
Laura A. Heymann
Overlaps exist across various doctrines in federal intellectual property law. Software can be protected under both copyright law and patent law; logos can be protected under both copyright law and trademark law. Design patents provide a particular opportunity to consider the issue of overlap, as an industrial design that qualifies for design patent protection might also, in particular circumstances, qualify for copyright protection as well as function as protectable trade dress.
When an overlap issue arises—that is, when an intellectual property rights holder asserts rights under more than one doctrine—the question then becomes how courts should respond. One response, of …
A Tale Of (At Least) Two Authors: Focusing Copyright Law On Process Over Product, Laura A. Heymann
A Tale Of (At Least) Two Authors: Focusing Copyright Law On Process Over Product, Laura A. Heymann
Laura A. Heymann
No abstract provided.
What Can I Do With This?: Deciphering Copyright And License Notices, Benjamin J. Keele, Frederick W. Dingledy
What Can I Do With This?: Deciphering Copyright And License Notices, Benjamin J. Keele, Frederick W. Dingledy
Frederick W. Dingledy
No abstract provided.
Crossing The Line?: Copyright For Libraries, Frederick W. Dingledy
Crossing The Line?: Copyright For Libraries, Frederick W. Dingledy
Frederick W. Dingledy
No abstract provided.
Copyrighting Facts, Michael S. Green
Abolishing Canadian Crown Copyright: Why Government Documents Should Not Be Subject To Copyright, Emily Benton
Abolishing Canadian Crown Copyright: Why Government Documents Should Not Be Subject To Copyright, Emily Benton
Master of Studies in Law Research Papers Repository
Section 12 of the Canadian Copyright Act, which assigns the government copyright ownership over all documents produced by the federal government for a period of fifty years, has remained virtually unchanged since being introduced into Canada’s copyright legislation in 1921. This provision is known as Crown copyright, and its continued existence serves as a barrier to the reuse of public sector information by the public, despite the fact that said documents were produced by government employees whose salaries are paid for by the taxpayers. This paper looks at Crown copyright through a global and Charter lens, evaluating how s.12 fits …
Mashups And Fair Use: The Bold Misadventures Of The Seussian Starship Enterprise, Peter Menell, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, David Nimmer
Mashups And Fair Use: The Bold Misadventures Of The Seussian Starship Enterprise, Peter Menell, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, David Nimmer
All Faculty Scholarship
This amicus brief filed in the Ninth Circuit appeal of Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. ComicMix seeks to rectify and restore the balances underlying the Copyright Act of 1976 — particularly the interplay of the Section 106(2) right to prepare derivative works and the fair use doctrine. The District Court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the ground that OH THE PLACES YOU’LL BOLDLY GO! — the defendants’ illustrated book combining Dr. Seuss’s OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO! and other Dr. Seuss books with Star Trek characters and themes — made fair use of the Dr. Seuss works.
Based …
Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder
Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder
Duke Law & Technology Review
No abstract provided.
Imaginary Bottles, Jessica Litman
The Enigma Of Digitized Property A Tribute To John Perry Barlow, Pamela Samuelson, Kathryn Hashimoto
The Enigma Of Digitized Property A Tribute To John Perry Barlow, Pamela Samuelson, Kathryn Hashimoto
Duke Law & Technology Review
No abstract provided.
The Past And Future Of The Internet: A Symposium For John Perry Barlow
The Past And Future Of The Internet: A Symposium For John Perry Barlow
Duke Law & Technology Review
No abstract provided.
Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder
Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The quarter century since Barlow’s writing allows us to assess his prophecy. The economy moved in the very direction that Barlow anticipated—from an economy focused on the ownership of things to an economy based on services and experiences. In high-income countries, services now account for three-quarters of the gross domestic product.
But intellectual property proved more resilient and adaptable than Barlow predicted. Intellectual property law both offered exceptions where necessary, while simultaneously expanding to cover new forms of creativity and activities. In this short essay, we argue that, for good or ill, intellectual property has reconfigured itself for an economy …
A Tale Of Two Copyrights, Glynn Lunney
A Tale Of Two Copyrights, Glynn Lunney
Faculty Scholarship
This essay explores two possible copyright regimes. The first uses costless and perfect price discrimination to enable copyright owners to capture the full market or exchange value of their work. The second also uses costless and perfect price discrimination, but allows copyright owners to capture only the persuasion cost for authoring and distributing a work. We can call the first regime, costless copyright maximalism, and the second, costless copyright minimalism. The choice between these two regimes is primarily distributional: Should we design copyright to allocate the surplus associated with copyrighted works to copyright owners or to copyright consumers? This essay …
Hold Up: Digital Sampling, Copyright, Infringement, And Artist Credit Through The Lens Of Beyonce's "Lemonade", Spenser Clark
Hold Up: Digital Sampling, Copyright, Infringement, And Artist Credit Through The Lens Of Beyonce's "Lemonade", Spenser Clark
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
Will You Have To Pay For The O.C.G.A.?: Copyrighting The Official Code Of Georgia Annotated, Elizabeth Holland
Will You Have To Pay For The O.C.G.A.?: Copyrighting The Official Code Of Georgia Annotated, Elizabeth Holland
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
In the 1970s, the Georgia General Assembly set out to perfect the organization of the laws of the state. The State worked with a publishing company to not only codify the statutory portions but also create additional annotations to explain the application of the law in practice. When enacting the code, the State merged the statutory portion with the annotations to create the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A.). Georgia sought to retain the copyright in the O.C.G.A.
Years later, Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (Public Resource) challenged this construction. He alleged merging the statutory code with the annotated version …
Review Of "Rights And Reproductions: The Handbook For Cultural Institutions" (2nd Ed.), Georgia Westbrook
Review Of "Rights And Reproductions: The Handbook For Cultural Institutions" (2nd Ed.), Georgia Westbrook
School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship
The second edition of Rights and Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions provides an updated look at intellectual property, related laws, and appropriate use for cultural institutions. The authors provide a robust and clear explanation of relevant issues and serves a wide range of users employing the text as a reference work.
Reuse, Remix, And Create With Creative Commons Licenses, Andrée Rathemacher
Reuse, Remix, And Create With Creative Commons Licenses, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Faculty Presentations
Slides from a presentation, "Reuse, Remix, and Create with Creative Commons Licenses," presented at the Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference 2019, Get Informed!, on May 23, 2019 in North Smithfield, Rhode Island.
An openly-shared Google Slides version of this presentation is also available at https://bit.ly/2w6maqH.
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REUSE, REMIX, AND CREATE WITH CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES | ROOM 2A
What are Creative Commons (CC) licenses and how do they work? What is the difference between something that is free online and something that is truly “open”? Did you know that it is often a Creative Commons license that puts …
Copyright: Preserve, Protect, And Promote Your Research, Supplemental Resources, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster
Copyright: Preserve, Protect, And Promote Your Research, Supplemental Resources, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
Supplemental sources handed out during a presentation given on April 9, 2019 in the Cottonwood Room, East Union, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Topics: Copyright, Fair Use, Educational use, UNL Digital Commons.
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Copyright begins at “birth”
You can also register.
The holder of copyright controls the ability of others to distribute: reproductions, derivatives, translations, performance
Length of term = until you die + 70 years
Licensing and contracts
Permissions
Publisher contracts
Creative Commons licenses
Gold Open Access/APCs
Predatory journals
"Can I use this {image / quote / video clip / ...} in my {lecture / course materials / dissertation / ...}” ?
Public domain (= no copyright)
Educational use = Not Infringement
Plagiarism vs. infringement
Fair Use (1): Re-using copyrighted materials in your own work--legally
Fair use (2): The 4 Factors
Who …
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research [Lunch And Learn Outline], Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research [Lunch And Learn Outline], Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
Basic copyright: Know your rights; Copyright registration; Rights conferred; Length of term; Infringement
Licensing and contracts: Addenda to copyright that limit or extend your work; Permissions; Evaluating predatory journals; Creative Commons licenses; Gold Open Access/APCs
Fair use: How to fairly and legally use copyrighted materials in your own work; Plagiarism vs. copyright
Educational use: "Can I use this {image, quote, video clip, ...} in my {lecture, course materials, dissertation, ...}"
Copyright considerations, UNL Digital Commons: Publishing: books, journals; Green Open Access
Copyright: Preserve, Protect, And Promote Your Research: Quiz (Key), Sue Ann Gardner
Copyright: Preserve, Protect, And Promote Your Research: Quiz (Key), Sue Ann Gardner
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
Answers to a quiz given during a presentation held on April 9, 2019 in the Cottonwood Room, East Union, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Topic: Copyright for academic authors.