Carrollogos

The English language, as spoken in the United States, is missing a word. Think about the ways in which we refer to the female and male memb...

Newspapers are facing a serious financial strain. (I'm not sure it's truly a crisis). Advertising and subscription revenues fell s...

Two recent developments have helped highlight the general problem caused by application or implementation of copyright law to restrict acces...

Creative Commons is looking for an Executive Director to head up our newly launched division, CC Learn. The position is located in the San ...

Creative Commons is pleased to announce that we are launching a new division called CC Learn , which will extend the work we've been doi...

It's time to let policymakers in the United States know that you support open access. Following a very successful petition drive in the...

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...