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An Artist’s Reflection on Visual Artists’ Rights (Sec. 106A)
While most of U.S. copyright law treats author rights in terms of economic gains and harms, moral rights move author rights into the realm of the personal, concentrating on how those rights relate to the autonomy of the individual regardless of the money involved.
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Will the Grammarly Lawsuit Show Us Yet Another Area Where Existing Law is Enough? (We Think So)
In early March, investigative journalist Julia Angwin filed a class action lawsuit against Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman Platform Inc. over an ill-considered feature of its…
Amicus Brief in the Salt-N-Pepa Case Asking the Second Circuit Court to Safeguard Authors’ Section 203 Termination Right
With the generous help of the NYU’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic, we filed an amicus brief today in support of Salt-N-Pepa. The outcome of…
The Ontology of Copyright (Sec. 106)
Today, we have discerned differences between rights and limitations, but have forgotten their essential wholeness. Fair use is not a carve-out—it never has been. It…