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Category Archives: copyright
What copyright scholars can learn from the Harper’s magazine “free speech” debacle
Nicholas Grossman has an excellent oped (h/t Mike Masnick) on that much (and justly) maligned Harper’s letter about cancel culture, free speech and stuff. Grossman’s key point: free speech defenders … miscast … their argument as a high-level defense of … Continue reading
Posted in copyright
Tagged Chewbacca, copyright, free culture, free speech, internet freedom
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Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons from the First* Facebook Uprising
It’s new research week here in the Orangespace, and today’s contribution is a teaser for a paper that’s at the revise-and-resubmit stage. (This post will be updated when I have something to link to.) It’s about a key turning point … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian copyright, copyright, Facebook activism
Tagged copyright, facebook, Fair Copyright for Canada, online social movements, political engagement, resource mobilization theory, social media, social movements
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What would copyright law look like if economists held the pen?
So yet another study finds that there is a small, positive correlation between illegal downloading and music sales (h/t Geist, Knopf, Torrent Freak and others). In basic English: Illegal downloads don’t harm music sales. Let’s put it even more simply: At the … Continue reading
Copyright shapes creation; it doesn’t drive it
I’m only now getting around to Peter Nowak’s provocative post (and its follow-up) about living in a world without copyright. One of the commentators wonders what this would do for creation: “Sure, people will create without IP law, but why … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, future of copyright
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That Republican copyright critique isn’t conservative: It’s economic
Nice to see that that that Republican memo proposing that copyright be considerably rethought has been getting a lot of coverage. And I’m particularly interested to read an upcoming book that will apparently make the conservative case for copyright reform (h/t … Continue reading
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Tagged conservative copyright, copyright, RSC memo
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