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Copyright And A Synergistic Society, Tracy Reilly
Copyright And A Synergistic Society, Tracy Reilly
Tracy Reilly
Copyright and a Synergistic Society, is the second in a series of articles in which I analyze a disturbing moral and psychological trend that has arisen in contemporary copyright scholarship—the tendency to criticize and demoralize the individual author of creative works and glorify collectivist works of art, or those which are perceived to be created by groups of often unidentified and unrelated persons. This “groupthink” mentality, which has become a buzz word in copyright scholarship and is aided by the unrestrained digital proliferation of intellectual products, is a dangerous return to pre-industrialist principles of collectivism which threaten to harm the …
Copyright And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Tracy Reilly
Copyright And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Tracy Reilly
Tracy Reilly
Copyright and the Tragedy of the Common is the first of a series of articles in which I analyze a disturbing moral and philosophical trend that has arisen in contemporary copyright scholarship—the tendency to criticize and demoralize the individual author of creative works and glorify collectivist or “common” works of art, or those which are perceived to be created by groups of often unidentified and unrelated persons. This “groupthink” mentality, which has become a buzz word in copyright scholarship and is aided by the unrestrained digital proliferation of intellectual products, is a dangerous return to pre-industrialist principles of collectivism which …
The “Spiritual Temperature” Of Contemporary Popular Music: An Alternative To The Legal Regulation Of Death-Metal And Gangsta-Rap Lyrics, Tracy Reilly
Tracy Reilly
The purpose of this Article is to contribute to the volume of legal scholarship that focuses on popular music lyrics and their effects on children. This interdisciplinary cross-section of law and culture has been analyzed by legal scholars, philosophers, and psychologists throughout history. This Article specifically focuses on the recent public uproar over the increasingly violent and lewd content of death metal and gangsta -rap music and its alleged negative influence on children. Many legal scholars have written about how legal and political efforts throughout history to regulate contemporary genres of popular music in the name of the protection of …