Copyright law has always sought to maximize the quantity of valuable creative works available to society. While protecting the creative artists is essential, it is in some sense incidental; the reason to protect the artist is that them, there would be nothing to copy. As new digital technologies for transforming artistic works gain in capability, the ease of producing innovative and valuable works based on the reuse of prior work increases, meaning that society can now benefit from an increased supply of works based on the reuse of others. This suggests that restrictions on reuse that were considered optimal in the past should now be relaxed. We suggest changes to copyright law to achieve this new optimum. We suggest that artistic merit sho...
Copyright was originally intended to serve creators as an engine of free expression, protecting them...
Author's draft also deposited as a working paper in SSRN. Final version published in John Marshall J...
Copyright, originally conceived as a tool to protect the author and to provide incentives to create ...
Copyright law has always sought to maximize the quantity of valuable creative works available to soc...
The Supreme Court’s copyright jurisprudence of the last 100 years has embraced the creativity trope....
Purpose: This paper highlights the challenges and key arguments for digital copyright protection leg...
As digital storage of intellectual goods such as literature and music has become widespread, the dup...
489-499The Law of Copyright is capable of facilitating creativity as well as hindering it. Art has p...
Copyright is intended to incentivize the production of new creative works and protect authors’ conne...
Current copyright law, both as written and as applied, is stifling the development of new content, l...
This paper expands on whether copyright protection may be available for certain new and non-conventi...
Digital media and software have broken copyright law. Although a consumer experiences the same work ...
This thesis argues that copyright law, in both the United Kingdom and the United States, has become ...
Three centuries have passed since copyright law was developed to stimulate creativity and promote le...
In order to be copyrighted, a work of art must be \u27original. Critics have persuasively argued th...
Copyright was originally intended to serve creators as an engine of free expression, protecting them...
Author's draft also deposited as a working paper in SSRN. Final version published in John Marshall J...
Copyright, originally conceived as a tool to protect the author and to provide incentives to create ...
Copyright law has always sought to maximize the quantity of valuable creative works available to soc...
The Supreme Court’s copyright jurisprudence of the last 100 years has embraced the creativity trope....
Purpose: This paper highlights the challenges and key arguments for digital copyright protection leg...
As digital storage of intellectual goods such as literature and music has become widespread, the dup...
489-499The Law of Copyright is capable of facilitating creativity as well as hindering it. Art has p...
Copyright is intended to incentivize the production of new creative works and protect authors’ conne...
Current copyright law, both as written and as applied, is stifling the development of new content, l...
This paper expands on whether copyright protection may be available for certain new and non-conventi...
Digital media and software have broken copyright law. Although a consumer experiences the same work ...
This thesis argues that copyright law, in both the United Kingdom and the United States, has become ...
Three centuries have passed since copyright law was developed to stimulate creativity and promote le...
In order to be copyrighted, a work of art must be \u27original. Critics have persuasively argued th...
Copyright was originally intended to serve creators as an engine of free expression, protecting them...
Author's draft also deposited as a working paper in SSRN. Final version published in John Marshall J...
Copyright, originally conceived as a tool to protect the author and to provide incentives to create ...