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Eames: The Architect and the Painter

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plyw…

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Casablanca Mon Amour

Casablanca Mon Amour is a modern road movie that encapsulates the more complex and fractured nature of living in a world where TV and wars compete for headlines…

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If You Thought SOPA and ACTA Were Bad…

CIS Non-Residential Fellow David Levine writes about SOPA and ACTA in this Info Justice post. In the wake of the Stop Online Piracy Act/PROTECT IP Act (collect…

Case

Cariou v. Prince

Photographer Patrick Cariou sued artist Richard Prince for copyright infringement on the basis of Prince’s use, in works of collage art, of images of Rastafaria…

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Fire in the Blood

An intricate tale of “monopoly, medicine and mass murder”, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is the story of how Western governments acting on behalf of pharmaceutical companie…

Case

Golan v. Holder

The FUP filed this suit on behalf of a University of Denver conductor and others, challenging Congress’s restoration of copyright to works that had entered the…