Archive for 'copyright'
Copyright flow chart
The law firm of Bromberg and Sunstein has an unusually handy flow chart of U.S. copyright duration on their website.
Speaking of copyright, the flow chart bears a copyright notice. But I think I’m okay since the image below is too small to be usable. Click through to the original.
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Posted: July 7th, 2008 under copyright.
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Creative Commons
If you will glance down at the footer on this page (or follow the “about” or “policies” links) you will see that I have replaced my copyright notices with creative commons ones. I’m hardly a leader in this — as a guy who has worked in book publishing for many years I have had the [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 under contracts, copyright, intellectual.property, rights.
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Happy Public Domain Day
Midnight at the end of December 31 marked the passing of countless works into public domain. Copyright laws vary by country around the world. Most countries observe passage into public domain at death of the creator plus fifty years. In other words, the works of authors and artists who died in or before 1957 are [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2008 under copyright.
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Is copyright corroding our society?
That’s what Stanford professor Larry Lessig says in this lecture (it takes about 19 minutes and it’s well worth watching the whole thing — but in any case be sure not to miss the mash-up about 9:30 in). Dan Blank summarizes:
He concludes that copyright laws remain antiquated with regards to how our kids are using [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2007 under copyright.
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Confused about copyright
There’s a fellow named Kevin Harris who thinks he can copyright a list of comments of Albert Einstein. Gosh, do you think the Einstein estate will have to go to this guy from now on to get permission to use the quotes?
Posted: September 30th, 2007 under copyright.
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Optimal Copyright
Rufus Pollock, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Cambridge, has done a calculation that he says shows the optimum term of copyright is 14 years. He will present his paper, entitled Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright, at the 2007 SERCI Congress in Berlin this week.
Links:
announcement on [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2007 under copyright.
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Copyright video
Below is part one of the Disneyfied copyright video.
I previously linked to part two — which proves the information must be reliable.
Posted: June 24th, 2007 under copyright, film-video.
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The Fairy Use Doctrine
Disney characters recite the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use.
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under copyright.
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Copyright and Fair Use
By Condoleezza Rice
Posted: April 29th, 2007 under copyright, fiction, intellectual.property.
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Answering the copyright question for books published 1923-1963
Okay, we know books published in the U.S. before 1923 are probably in public domain. And the copyright of books published after 1963 was automatically renewed. But books published in the forty years between those two dates might or might not be in public domain, depending on whether the copyright holder renewed the copyright.
Books published [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2007 under copyright, publishing.
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