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The End Of Copyright, David Nimmer Oct 1995

The End Of Copyright, David Nimmer

Vanderbilt Law Review

One December 8, 1994, Congress ended the experiment that it commenced on May 31, 1790, in the first Judiciary Act:' legislating an autonomous body of United States copyright law governed by the Copyright Clause of the Constitution. We witnessed, on December 8, a major change of constitutional proportions; even more significantly, we experienced the first tremors of certain tectonic shifts in United States sovereignty; and, perhaps most significantly, we undertook a sea change in defining the end that copyright serves, the identity of the master in the copyright sphere.

I refer to enactment of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (the …


National And International Copyright Liability For Electronic System Operators, Charles J. Meyer Apr 1995

National And International Copyright Liability For Electronic System Operators, Charles J. Meyer

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Imperishable Intellectual Creations: The Limits Of The First Sale Doctrine, I. Neel Chatterjee Mar 1995

Imperishable Intellectual Creations: The Limits Of The First Sale Doctrine, I. Neel Chatterjee

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Contracts, Copyright And Preemption In A Digital World, I Trotter Hardy Jan 1995

Contracts, Copyright And Preemption In A Digital World, I Trotter Hardy

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Copyright is designed to provide some form of protection against unauthorized use of original informational materials. The rapid shift of information production and distribution to electronic form, with its corresponding ease of copying, naturally makes copyright-dependent industries nervous. Much talk in the news and on the "net" these days is about the future of copyright law, a law developed in an age of print and now perhaps too tied to that medium to have ready application to today's information technology.


U.S. Copyright Law And Its Extraterritorial Application: Subafilms, Ltd. V. Mgm-Pathe Communications, Patricia Scahill Jan 1995

U.S. Copyright Law And Its Extraterritorial Application: Subafilms, Ltd. V. Mgm-Pathe Communications, Patricia Scahill

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Multimedia Computing: Copyright Law's "Last Stand", Steven Pepe Jan 1995

Multimedia Computing: Copyright Law's "Last Stand", Steven Pepe

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Interactive Computing: Joint Work Status For User And Programmer, Michelle Lynn Birnbaum Jan 1995

Interactive Computing: Joint Work Status For User And Programmer, Michelle Lynn Birnbaum

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.