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As Unoriginal As They Wanna Be: Upholding Musical Parody In Campell V. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., Gregory D. Deutsch
As Unoriginal As They Wanna Be: Upholding Musical Parody In Campell V. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., Gregory D. Deutsch
Pepperdine Law Review
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Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda For Copyright Reform, Hannibal Travis
Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda For Copyright Reform, Hannibal Travis
Pepperdine Law Review
This article proposes a series of copyright reforms to pave the way for digital library projects like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and Google Print, which promise to make much of the world's knowledge easily searchable and accessible from anywhere. Existing law frustrates digital library growth and development by granting overlapping, overbroad, and near-perpetual copyrights in books, art, audiovisual works, and digital content. Digital libraries would benefit from an expanded public domain, revitalized fair use doctrine and originality requirement, rationalized systems for copyright registration and transfer, and a new framework for compensating copyright owners for online infringement without imposing derivative …