Heretic: Copyright Law and Dramatic Works

The Originality Standard for Literary Works under U.S. Copyright Law

Computer Games and Intellectual Property Law : Derivative Works , Copyright and Copyleft

Digital technology has been stressing copyright traditional balance between rightholders’ and users’ interests. In fact, it allows the move from a mere passive consumption role to a player-as-producer model that potentiates the creation of user-generated transformative uses. Since, traditionally, copyright reserves full control over derivative works to the author of the original work, that bran...

Copyright term extension and orphan works

I examine three recent topics in copyright policy from an economic perspective: (1) term extensions, (2) the orphan works problem, and (3) mass digitization projects. This paper was prepared for the seminar on “Information, Intellectual Property, and Economic Welfare. The legacy of Kenneth Arrow and Richard Nelson” held at Turin, Italy, May 15-16, 2006, and sponsored by the Fondazione Luigi Ein...

Revision of the Copyright Law

something they would otherwise be free to do, the right to prohibit thenm from copying and distributing material which has been published. A patent constitutes a truer analogy. In common law, if an invention can be used and still kept secret by the Those who introduced the medical research bill had to make a hard decision not to accept a compromiiise ot the original specifications, including an...

Fan fiction and copyright: Outsider works and intellectual property protection

Fan fiction has long been a nearly invisible form of outsider art, but over the past decade it has grown exponentially in volume and in legal importance. Because of its nature, authorship, and underground status, fan fiction stands at an intersection of key issues regarding property, sexuality, and gender. In Fan Fiction and Copyright, author Aaron Schwabach examines various types of fan-create...