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I've posted a preprint of my latest article, Fixing Fair Use , here and here . Here's the abstract: The fair use doctrine in copy...

Arthur Sale has posted a very nice paper called The Patchwork Mandate that is directly in line with the advice I have been giving to open a...

Copyright. Michael Geist has a nice column today once again reminding us about why the WIPO negotiations over a Broadcast Treaty are troubl...

Music. Copyright. There's little doubt that the music industry is in a period of transformation. Today's news is that Universal Mu...

Surely I was not the only reader struck by the coincidence of stories in yesterday's New York Times about two very different kinds of on...

Open Access. In response to the Provosts' Open Letter supporting a legislative requirement for open access to federally-funded research...

Open Access. A recent story reports that the provosts (chief academic officers) of 25 leading research universities in the United States h...

Trademark . Food, clothing, shelter. How do we obtain these basic necessities? For this post, please excuse a moment of self-indulgence, ...

Copyright . As further evidence that networked computing is now the norm, users of Microsoft's Office suite now have an embedded option...

James Boyle has written a dead-on analysis of the deeply flawed WIPO broadcast treaty that would create a pseud0 intellectual property righ...

Open Access . The Wall Street Journal reports today on a Harris Interactive poll that asked 2,501 Americans whether they thought the public...

Open Access . This is the first in a series of posts I plan about copyright law and access to publicly funded research. In this post, I high...

Music . David Owen wrote a very nice piece in the April 10, 2006 issue of the New Yorker about Muzak, the company that specializes in back...

Open Access . Clifford Lynch makes another important contribution by illuminating the potential of open access in a networked age. We'r...

Open Access . Here comes the public attack against the bi-partisan Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 , which would require 11 gover...

I love a good comic strip. Long, long ago (in the early 1980s) I lived in Austin. Sam Hurt drew a great strip called Eyebeam for the UT news...

Copyright . Music . Like many others who worry about achieving the proper balance between public and private interests in copyright law, I w...

Open Access . In some quarters of the Open Access movement, some confusion has arisen with respect to copyright law and the many iterations ...

Open Access . Senators Cornyn and Lieberman have introduced an important bill that would improve access for researchers and members of the ...

Welcome to my blog. This blog will feature a mix of analysis and advocacy. My analysis will focus on recent developments in intellectual pr...