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On April 27, 2020 , the Supreme Court decided an important case about copyright law and access to the law --  Georgia v. Public.Resource.org...

  After a significant international public consultation process spanning two years, Creative Commons has released Version 4.0 of the Crea...

As many may know, on April 1, 2012, the World Bank adopted an important open access policy for formal publications by World Bank staff.  Th...

At American University, we recently hosted an amazing gathering of about 170 thoughtful experts on intellectual property law from around the...

So, this blog has been dormant for some time.  I've been swamped, but it's time to get back to business.  Here's a short post ju...

I will be giving a lecture on copyright law and Creative Commons tomorrow (Friday, December 11, 2009) at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg...

Publicly funded research outputs should be freely accessible by the public absent compelling reasons to withhold access. That's a simpl...

On July 11, I gave a keynote on Creative Commons and the principle of copyright neutrality at Campus Party 2009. Many thanks to Carolina B...

On June 15, I participated in the 2009 International Workshop on Copyright Industries and Intellectual Property , hosted by the South China ...

There's a cottage industry of naysayers who seek attention by deriding all things Internet. A member of this crew, Mark Helprin, has pu...

Readers in Europe who care about keeping the Internet relatively neutral need to express that opinion to policymakers in the European Parlia...

The news that the Associated Press is going to rely increasingly on copyright and trademark law to staunch losses to its newsgathering busi...

Big news at MIT. By unanimous faculty vote, MIT adopted the first University-wide OA mandate in the United States for faculty authors. The...

I'm going to have more to say about data, databases, and intellectual property rights in the coming months. This longish post provides ...

Periodically, I am asked to explain some feature of copyright law. When I do this in an email, I'm going to make it a practice of also ...

As Peter Suber reports , yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) re-introduced the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act . This year it's ...

The NIH mandate is succeeding. Shouldn't all federally funded researchers who produce research articles with federal support have to de...

The first thing a student learns in a microeconomics class is that " There ain't no such thing as a free lunch ." This lesson ...

Whatever one thinks about the rest of the Google Book business, I think it's important to focus on the digitization of public domain boo...