Shorts: Mutant Rights — In this podcast short, a strange twist of legal taxonomy causes a dispute over whether X-MEN action figures are toys or dolls and sparks a court case about what it means to be human.
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What Would an Evidence-Based Copyright Law Look Like?
Copyright laws are declared to be the underpinnings of creativity, innovation, the knowledge economy, and everything short of curing the sick and feeding the poor. Can copyright laws do all these wonderful things, or are they, in Ian Hargreaves’ words, the result of lobbynomics?
William Patry is senior copyright counsel at Google Inc. He has written far too much about copyright law, including his new book How to Fix Copyright Law and so now spends his time playing bass clarinet.
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Copyright 2.0 Show - Episode 164 | PlagiarismToday
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Copyright Flack
With the AP’s new news DRM distribution system and the struggling newspaper industry, NPR and First Amendment lawyer David Marburger discusses the redistribution of the news and the U.S. Copyright Act.