Carrollogos

In the wake of the publication of the report from the " EU Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication ...

William Patry has substantially revised his thoroughgoing treatise on copyright law. For more details, please visit Bill's entry describ...

The coordinated attack by some in the Bush administration and some of its allies on pro bono lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees is ...

Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech is one of the most moving and powerful exhibitions of public oratory one can experience. I ...

The annual fundraising drive for Creative Commons is in its final days. Progress has been good, but we need a final push to make our goal. ...

A good news story for some classical music fans. A bad news story for champions of copyright's public domain. Digital copies of Mozart...

Two important pieces from the traditional press are worth noting. First, Sir John Sulston, a Nobel laureate who serves on the Science Common...

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...