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Payment In Credit: Copyright Law And Subcultural Creativity, Rebecca Tushnet
Payment In Credit: Copyright Law And Subcultural Creativity, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Copyright lawyers talk and write a lot about the uncertainties of fair use and the deterrent effects of a clearance culture on publishers, teachers, filmmakers, and the like, but we know less about the choices people make about copyright on a daily basis, especially when they are not at work. Thus, this article examines one subcultural group that engages in a variety of practices, from pure copying and distribution of others' works to creation of new stories, art, and audiovisual works: the media-fan community. Fans justify their unauthorized derivative works as legitimate, no matter what formal copyright law says, with …
Domain And Forum: Public Space, Public Freedom, Rebecca Tushnet
Domain And Forum: Public Space, Public Freedom, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The particular problems of content and viewpoint discrimination rarely surface in copyright, though some people have argued that fair use implicates them. Nonetheless, one important lesson for copyright from public forum doctrine is that First Amendment law can take some - though not many - speech-related options off the table. In this brief comment, I argue that analogies between copyright law and public forum doctrine highlight important shared commitments to free and robust public discourse, but also substantial practical barriers to judicial enforcement of those commitments.
Creativity And Culture In Copyright Theory, Julie E. Cohen
Creativity And Culture In Copyright Theory, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Creativity is universally agreed to be a good that copyright law should seek to promote, yet copyright scholarship and policymaking have proceeded largely on the basis of assumptions about what it actually is. When asked to discuss the source of their inspiration, individual artists describe a process that is intrinsically ineffable. Rights theorists of all varieties have generally subscribed to this understanding, describing creativity in terms of an individual liberty whose form remains largely unspecified. Economic theorists of copyright work from the opposite end of the creative process, seeking to divine the optimal rules for promoting creativity by measuring its …