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An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense To Copyright Infringement Actions, Jerry Brito, Bridget Dooling
An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense To Copyright Infringement Actions, Jerry Brito, Bridget Dooling
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
Laurence Peter once said that "[o]riginality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." Yet that clever quip is itself unoriginal. Although there may be nothing new under the sun--the arrangement of different bits of existing cultural matter in new and interesting combinations is the source of much originality. Yet today much of our cultural raw material is outside the reach of creators because of the orphan works problem. This problem renders untouchable a large swath of existing artistic, literary, and other works because if a work's copyright owner cannot be found to …
Yale Kamisar: A Principled Man For All Seasons, Douglas A. Kahn
Yale Kamisar: A Principled Man For All Seasons, Douglas A. Kahn
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Yale Kamisar began his distinguished career as a law professor in 1957 at the University of Minnesota Law School. For three years prior to joining the Minnesota faculty, Yale had been an associate with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling specializing in antitrust law. Understandably, Yale and Minnesota assumed that he would devote the major part of his research and teaching to antitrust. At that time, the study of criminal law was near the bottom of the hierarchy of law school topics, and so young faculty often were assigned the task of teaching criminal law as the …