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Is Your Itunes Playlist Worth Six Figures? Due Process, Statutory Damages, And Peer-To-Peer Copyright Infringement , Ryan M. Hrobak Jun 2013

Is Your Itunes Playlist Worth Six Figures? Due Process, Statutory Damages, And Peer-To-Peer Copyright Infringement , Ryan M. Hrobak

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Copyright And The First Amendment: Comrades, Combatants, Or Uneasy Allies?, Joseph P. Bauer Jun 2010

Copyright And The First Amendment: Comrades, Combatants, Or Uneasy Allies?, Joseph P. Bauer

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The copyright regime and the First Amendment seek to promote the same goals. Both seek the creation and dissemination of more, better, and more diverse literary, pictorial, musical and other works. But, they use significantly different means to achieve those goals. The copyright Laws afford to the creator of a work the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, transform, and perform that work for an extended period of time. The First Amendment, on the other hand, proclaims that Congress "shall make no Law... abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, " thus at least nominally indicating that limitations on …


Fashionable Ip Or Ip For Fashion?, Norman L. Balmer Jan 2008

Fashionable Ip Or Ip For Fashion?, Norman L. Balmer

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The Law Of Unintended Consequences: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And Interoperability, Jacqueline Lipton Mar 2005

The Law Of Unintended Consequences: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And Interoperability, Jacqueline Lipton

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been criticized for many reasons, including its impact on the fair use defense to copyright infringement, and its potential to chill the free exchange of scientific, technical, and educational information. Law professors and special interest groups have opposed elements of the DMCA from its inception and continue to lobby for reform. One of the more recent concerns about the DMCA involves the incorporation of copyrightable software code into tangible goods for purposes related to the functionality of those goods. Some manufacturers of such products recently have attempted to use the DMCA to prevent …


Listen To Cass County Music: The Right To Jury Trials In Copyright Infringement Actions When Statutory Damages Are Elected, Megan E. Ward Sep 1997

Listen To Cass County Music: The Right To Jury Trials In Copyright Infringement Actions When Statutory Damages Are Elected, Megan E. Ward

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