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Copyright's Illogical Exclusion Of Conceptual Art That Changes Over Time, Zahr K. Said
Copyright's Illogical Exclusion Of Conceptual Art That Changes Over Time, Zahr K. Said
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This Essay argues that copyright illogically excludes conceptual art from protection on the basis of fixation, given that well-settled case law has interpreted the fixation requirement to reach works that contain certain kinds of change so long as they are sufficiently repetitive to be deemed permanent. While conceptual art may perhaps be better left outside the scope of copyright protection on the basis of its failure to meet copyright’s other requirements, this Essay concludes that fixation should not be the basis on which to exclude conceptual art from protection.
There are of course both normative and descriptive questions around the …
Patented Electric Guitar Pickups And The Creation Of Modern Music Genres, Sean M. O'Connor
Patented Electric Guitar Pickups And The Creation Of Modern Music Genres, Sean M. O'Connor
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This Essay provides an overview of how patents played a core role in developing world-changing musical genres. This may be surprising, as normally copyright law is associated with incentivizing advances in the creative arts. But as this Conference’s theme [The IP Platform: Supporting Invention and Inspiration] and presentations emphasize, the whole range of intellectual property (“IP”), especially when viewed as a platform, supports innovation across the spectrum of human ingenuity and creativity.
This Essay is also intended to be read in conjunction with a viewing of the live-music demonstration of how pickups transformed popular music, delivered at the Conference and …