Subscribe to RSS Feed A Tale of Two Proposals to Change Copyright Law to Protect Newspapers: Part 1
Newspapers are in trouble these days. Many in that industry blame competition from bloggers and websites, and some believe that the way to deal with that competition is to change copyright law. One proposal to do so appeared in a blog post by Judge Richard Posner in June of this year. Shortly thereafter, a more [...]
Copyright: It’s Not Just for Artists, or, Why Copyright Education in the Health Sciences?
When I went to law school in mid-life, some people were admiring, some excited, some horrified. Law elicits strong emotions, and sometimes mere acquaintances actively encouraged me or beseeched me to stop! Some of the people who have been the most encouraging have been my doctors, perhaps because they identified with the impulse to follow [...]
Why Copyright Education?
In May of this year, American Libraries published a letter I wrote about copyright education. I wrote the letter in response to an opinion piece called “The Copyright Mummies” that Melanie Schlosser, also of OSU, had written in the March issue about the harm of long copyright terms. In it, Schlosser argued that we should [...]