Archive for the ‘fair use’ Category
Friday, February 12th, 2010 by Patrick Ross
While snowbound this week I read some pieces in The Washington Post about condescension. The first author wrote a piece titled “Why are liberals so condescending?” He maintained that liberals are “committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but [...]
Posted in copyright law, copyright opponents, creators, culture, drm, fair use, founding fathers, licensing, piracy, property rights | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 21st, 2009 by Patrick Ross
One truism about copyright is that one person’s inconvenience is another person’s absolute must. Passions brew on both sides, this is not new. What is interesting is when people switch sides.
One recent example of this involves attorneys Joe Sibley and Kiwi Camara. You may remember these two as the defenders of Jammie Thomas in her [...]
Posted in copyright law, creators, fair use, market forces, philanthropy, piracy | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by Patrick Ross
A recurring theme in criticism of copyright is that this isn’t really about individual creators. They are merely victims of The Man. Distributors use their market power to maximize profit, and that comes at the expense of creators.
Okay. Any individual creator, unless they occupy the far left of the Pareto Curve up where massive profits [...]
Posted in creators, culture, fair use, market forces | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by Patrick Ross
Building on my last post, which focused on the “exclusive right” granted by the first U.S. Congress to authors and inventors, as guided by the U.S. Constitution, let me address briefly the rights that users of creative works often claim for themselves. I am an avid consumer of creative works myself, and understand that it’s [...]
Posted in blogging, capitol hill, copyright law, copyright opponents, creators, culture, fair use, market forces, p2p, piracy, property rights | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 17th, 2009 by Patrick Ross
One of the wonderful things about the U.S. Constitution is that it gives lawmakers and judges discretion in application of law. Even strict constructionists have to admit that their interpretation of original intent is in fact an interpretation. I mention this to address the varying interpretations of the Progress Clause — the origin of current [...]
Posted in copyright law, copyright opponents, creators, culture, fair use, founding fathers, market forces | 7 Comments »
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 by Lucinda M. Dugger
I had lunch last week with Washington, DC-based photographer, instructor, and copyright advocate Sam D’Amico who told me that he discusses copyright with his students on the first day of class. He urges his students to think for themselves about the issue and presents them with this scenario:
If you were completely out of money and [...]
Posted in Obama, copyright law, creators, culture, economy, fair use, licensing, piracy | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 26th, 2009 by Patrick Ross
UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman has a new essay (posted by The Media Institute) and podcast on a topic that seems obvious on its face: Everyone Hates DRM. That is mostly true, at least from a consumer standpoint. But that doesn’t mean it still isn’t relevant in today’s society, and I Lichtman understands that as [...]
Posted in FTC, copyright opponents, creators, drm, fair use, licensing, market forces, p2p, piracy, property rights | 14 Comments »
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 by copyright
Greetings! My name is Meg and I am one of the summer interns here at Copyright Alliance. One of the best things about living and working in Washington, D.C. is having the chance to attend some of the numerous events and activities held in the area. This [...]
Posted in copyright law, fair use, licensing | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 13th, 2009 by Patrick Ross
A few months back I wrote a series of blog posts compiled into a paper attacking ten common myths, or canards, about copyright. One I didn’t address, because it seemed obviously false, is “Copyright is an attempt to lock down facts.” Uh, no. Facts are not copyrightable. But expressions are. A website publisher in a [...]
Posted in advertising, copyright law, fair use, piracy, property rights | 5 Comments »
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 by Patrick Ross
Have you ever played Whack-a-Mole? Satirist Bob Ricci* has a song about a child savant Whack-a-Mole player not unlike The Who’s Pinball Wizard. I picture that young genius with an odd selection of specialty when I think about user-generated online posts that infringe on another’s work.
This goes beyond the fact that the law entitles creators [...]
Posted in copyright law, creators, fair use, internet, p2p, piracy | 9 Comments »
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