Lessig Chat: Fair Use and Politics in the Digital Age

The Digital Media Collective, OSU Libraries Copyright Office, Health Sciences Copyright Management Office, and the Digital Union will host a screening of a live webcast by educator and author Lawrence Lessig on February 25, 2010, from 6:00 – 8:00pm in Thompson Library‘s 11th floor Campus Reading Room. Lessig’s talk, streamed live from the Harvard Berkman [...]

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Copyright and Football

Now there’s a combination most people don’t think about together. Recently the NFL sent cease-and-desist letters to a number of New Orleans t-shirt manufacturers, claiming that the shirts, which depicted the New Orleans Saints “Who Dat” slogan and the team’s fleur-de-lis emblem, violated the league’s copyright and trademarks.  Irate fans and merchants protested. Louisiana politicians [...]

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