The state copyright conundrum: What’s your state government’s rule on copyright?

The state of copyright activism

One of the great hopes I had while I researched and wrote Copyrights and copywrongs (New York: New York University Press, 2001), a cultural history of American copyright, during the late 1990s was that copyright debates might puncture the bubble of public consciousness and become important global policy questions. My wish has come true. Since 1998 questions about whether the United States has c...

Copyright Conundrum Liability of ISPs for Online Copyright Infringement

As digital rights holders become increasingly proactive in asserting their rights against infringers, Internet service providers (“ISPs”) are more frequently becoming embroiled in online copyright infringement disputes. ISPs have, in turn, become increasingly concerned about their potential exposure to liability for acts of copyright infringement committed by their subscribers using the ISPs' f...

Copyright and the Rule of Reason

Copyright law seeks a balance between private incentives to create new works, and public access to the works created. To achieve this balance, copyright law must be based on a theory of harm i.e., we must understand the kinds of uses that cause significant harm to authors’ incentives, and those that do not, so that we might focus on regulating the former and not the latter. And here is where th...

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Copyright in the networked world: gray copyright

Purpose – This paper uses an inductive approach to define “gray copyright.” It is needed to describe those situations in which the practical degree of copyright protection can best be measured in shades of risk rather than in simple terms of black and white. Design/methodology/approach – Two methods are used. One is an inductive definition builds up the term’s meaning example by example and lay...