Copyrights That No One Knows About Don’t Help Anyone – New York Times I’ll admit to feeling slightly mislead by the title of this piece. I had expected to read about how the average Joe’s lack of knowledge of copyright law hinders its effectiveness. Instead, the title addresses how the copyright on an old (out …
Techdirt: If The AP Will Reprint RIAA Propaganda, No Surprise That Reuters Will Reprint MPAA Propaganda I missed this the first time around: a couple of good links here to news stories that, in the poster’s interpretation, are biased towards content owners associations. In relation to my last post about how new norms of copyright …
Dysfunctional Views on Copyright in the Federal Government | Public Knowledge PK’s Sherwin Siy writes about a recent talk by Susan Anthony of the Patent and Trademark Office where she recounts an incident with a “shocking” number of “mischaracterizations” on the issue of fair use. From the description, it sounds as though he is correct …
What the Copyright Office thinks about Fair Use This piece contains some valuable insights into how the copyright office construes fair use [narrowly], and equally valuable insights on how the office’s application of the “law on the books” differs from the “law in action.” The Court’s ruling in the Sony case was limited to “free, …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
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