Boucher's latest 'digital rights' bill
By Tarleton Gillespie on March 12, 2007 at 5:55 am
(This post was substantially updated on February 28th.) Read more about Boucher's latest 'digital rights' bill
A healthy copyright system must balance the need to provide strong economic incentives through exclusive rights with the need to protect important public interests like free speech and expression. Fair use is foundational to that balance. It's role is to prevent copyright from stifling the creativity it is supposed to foster, and from imposing other burdens that would inhibit rather than promote the creation and spread of knowledge and learning.
The Fair Use Project (FUP) was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom and protect important public rights. It is the only organization in the country dedicated specifically to providing free and comprehensive legal representation to authors, filmmakers, artists, musicians and other content creators who face unmerited copyright claims, or other improper restrictions on their expressive interests. The FUP has litigated important cases across the country, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, and worked with scores of filmmakers and other content creators to secure the unimpeded release of their work.
By Tarleton Gillespie on March 12, 2007 at 5:55 am
(This post was substantially updated on February 28th.) Read more about Boucher's latest 'digital rights' bill
By Tarleton Gillespie on March 12, 2007 at 5:55 am
I will somehow have to catch up with the rest of the bloggers out there, who seem able to hear about, comment on, and get tired of a particular bit of news nearly the instant it happens. But I finally heard about this, and thought it was worth commenting on (thanks to Peter for bringing it to my attention). Read more about Second Life's response to its parodist... and how things change
By Tarleton Gillespie on March 12, 2007 at 5:54 am
Jonathan Lethem's essay "The Ecstacy of Influence" was published in Harper's Magazine back in late January, which makes it ancient in the compressed timeline of blog chatter. And it has been fully chattered over, mostly because it is brilliant, so I won't say much. I'm just posting it as a reminder to myself, and for anyone who didn't manage to see it. Read more about Jonatahn Lethem's "The Ectsacy of Influence"
By Tarleton Gillespie on March 12, 2007 at 5:53 am
I'm pilfering a phrase from Siva Vaidhyanathan, who wrote an excellent article called "Copyright as Cudgel," noting how producers often use copyright infringement charges as a political weapon. Read more about copyright as gavel