Stanford CIS

Copyright and Fair Use

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Kim Dotcom, Pirate King

Chris Sprigman is quoted in Businessweek about "secondary infringement" in an article asking "Is Kim Dotcom a criminal mastermind, or the world&#…

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Congress Should Fix the Copyright Mess

The real story behind last week’s blow-up over legislation regulating piracy on the Internet has less to do with the fears of motion picture studios or the intr…

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Beneath the Blindfold

FOUR SURVIVORS, ONE TRUTH THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN TO ANYONE A nursing home aide from Africa. An actor from Colombia. A U.S. Navy veteran from Chicago. A doctor…

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INCENDIARY: The Willingham Case

In 1991, Cameron Todd Willingham’s three daughters died in a Corsicana, Texas house fire. Tried and convicted for their arson murders, Willingham spent twelve y…

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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…

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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…