The Constitution gives Congress the power “[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” resulting in our modern regime of patent, trademark, and copyright law. Over time, however, this artistic tradition of copying has collided with more modern concepts of intellectual property rights, especially copyright protections. The advent of the internet as well as state-of-the-art recording and mixing software has vastly increased opportunities to copy, remix, sample, parody, and otherwise alter the work of other artists, particularly musicians. More than twenty years after Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, transformative fair use has become the predominant test courts have used to evaluate cases of copyright infringement in the music industr...
Copyright law recognizes fair use as a general limitation. It is assumed that fair use provides brea...
Copyright is a unique species of the law, tethered in a very tangible way to what is largely an inta...
There is nothing new under the sun, or so the saying goes. The process of creating music is no excep...
The Constitution gives Congress the power “[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” re...
As fair use has become more common as a defense to copyright infringement, often successfully, it ...
This Article focuses on the topic of music copyright, but addresses this legal issue from a differen...
This Article provides the first empirical study of fair use in cases involving musical works. The ma...
Music has been a crux of everyday life for decades. Almost ninety-one percent of the United States p...
As fair use has become more common as a defense to copyright infringement, often successfully, it ...
Two recent statistical studies confirm that a court finding of “transformation” in a copyright fair ...
The standard for copyright infringement is the same across different forms of expression. But musica...
The transformative use standard, which is an important aspect of copyright law’s fair use doctrine, ...
The music industry faces copyright protection issues in light of the transformative digital sampling...
The fair use doctrine in copyright has become the excuse for every creatively challenged author who ...
Copyright law recognizes fair use as a general limitation. It is assumed that fair use provides brea...
Copyright law recognizes fair use as a general limitation. It is assumed that fair use provides brea...
Copyright is a unique species of the law, tethered in a very tangible way to what is largely an inta...
There is nothing new under the sun, or so the saying goes. The process of creating music is no excep...
The Constitution gives Congress the power “[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” re...
As fair use has become more common as a defense to copyright infringement, often successfully, it ...
This Article focuses on the topic of music copyright, but addresses this legal issue from a differen...
This Article provides the first empirical study of fair use in cases involving musical works. The ma...
Music has been a crux of everyday life for decades. Almost ninety-one percent of the United States p...
As fair use has become more common as a defense to copyright infringement, often successfully, it ...
Two recent statistical studies confirm that a court finding of “transformation” in a copyright fair ...
The standard for copyright infringement is the same across different forms of expression. But musica...
The transformative use standard, which is an important aspect of copyright law’s fair use doctrine, ...
The music industry faces copyright protection issues in light of the transformative digital sampling...
The fair use doctrine in copyright has become the excuse for every creatively challenged author who ...
Copyright law recognizes fair use as a general limitation. It is assumed that fair use provides brea...
Copyright law recognizes fair use as a general limitation. It is assumed that fair use provides brea...
Copyright is a unique species of the law, tethered in a very tangible way to what is largely an inta...
There is nothing new under the sun, or so the saying goes. The process of creating music is no excep...