Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music, art, and literature, copyright
is widely considered" the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news …

The law governing authors' rights in the United States reflects an incomplete understanding
of the dynamics motivating the artistic soul. Copyright law, the body of law governing …

In June 2006, the Vatican forcefully asserted its copyright in all papal texts, sending a bill for
past royalties to one publishing house and indicating that" prior agreement" with the Vatican …

1. See, eg, Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to
Lock Down Culture and Control Cre ativity 296 (2004)(" The battle that got this whole …

In this bold and persuasive work Daniel Gervais, one of the world's leading thinkers on the
subject of intellectual property, argues that the international copyright system is in need of a …

Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions brings together leading copyright
scholars and the field's foremost authorities to consider the critical role of copyright law in …

The 2018 blockbuster movie Crazy Rich Asians2 reveals important insights about the
structure of modern creative production. In the early twentieth century, large, vertically …

ABSTRACT Since the Statute of Anne, the hallmark of Anglo-American copyright law has
been its nominal veneration of the author. As generations of copyright scholars have noted …

Legal fictions propagate so many untruths in the practice of law that Jeremy Bentham once
quipped that in English law, a" fiction is a syphilis, which runs in every vein, and carries into …

The safe harbor, which exempts online intermediaries from liability for material hosted by
their systems, has been the cornerstone of internet policy over the past several decades. In …