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- Petition Asks Obama To Support Treaty For The Blind, Rather Than Siding With Hollywood
- Fair Use For Me, But Not For Thee
- Another Court Tells Prenda To Pay Up On Attorneys Fees
- If You Thought Copyright Was A Mess On Earth, What Does It Look Like In Space?
- Guy Sues Twitter For Taking Away His Twitter Handle
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- "So while Cariou v. Prince can rightly be considered a victory for appropriation art to some extent ..."
- Richard Dorment on the Warhol Foundation
- Six of one
- "Since the full price of artworks donated to charity are not tax deductible for the artist, new records are a major incentive for their participation."
- Much Better Than The Impractical Advice Panel
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The Tragedy of the Anticommons: License Proliferation
The broad inclusiveness of the current copyright regime is justified by its purported benefit to the creative class, yet the broad inalienable rights create a “tragedy of the anticommons” wherein the presence of too many rights-holders is frustrating the outcome that would maximize utility for society.
When No Use is Fair Use
User-generated content (“UGC”) is ubiquitous on the Internet. Sites develop around providing users a platform to upload their creations. Yeah, well, technically a lot of that stuff’s illegal. Modders, mixers, or makers of machinima may participate in the free exchange of creative material, yet strict application of copyright law may criminalize them as willful infringers…
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