For nearly two hundred years, US copyright law has assumed that owners may voluntarily abandon their rights in a work. But scholars have largely ignored copyright abandonment …
Intellectual property rights like copyright protection create resource scarcity by erecting barriers to reproduction and distribution. Copyright makes it possible for an author to …
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The past decade has ushered in a tectonic shift in the world of mass entertainment. From music aggregators to on-demand video streaming, content providers have been wrestling …
When Stephanie Lenz filmed her toddler dancing in the kitchen with Prince's hit song" Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background and posted it to YouTube, copyright owner Universal …
COPYRIGHT'S TECHNO-PESSIMIST CREEP Page 1 COPYRIGHT'S TECHNO-PESSIMIST CREEP Xiyin Tang* Government investigations and public scrutiny of Big Tech are at an all-time …
Addison Rae Easterling is a twenty-year-old social media personality with tens of millions of followers across Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. It is on the latter platform where Easterling's …
The conventional wisdom is that property rules induce more-and more efficient-contracting, and that when faced with rigid property rules, intellectual property owners will contract into …
The 2018 blockbuster movie Crazy Rich Asians2 reveals important insights about the structure of modern creative production. In the early twentieth century, large, vertically …
Copyright provides a long term of legal excludability, ostensibly to encourage the production of new creative works. How long this term should last, and the extent to which current law …