From the monthly archives: September 2007

Student rights and academic values

On September 21, 2007 By

Do students own the copyright in the works they create as part of their education? Generally the answer is yes, but we have recently been reminded of some troubling exceptions. The University of Hawaii’s “Academy of Creative Media” is a film school that insists that all of its students completely assign their copyright in all [...]

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A big footprint

On September 20, 2007 By

The Computer & Communications Industry Association, which has recently grabbed some headlines with its complaint to the Federal Communications Commission about misleading and over-broad copyright warnings, has just released a report it commissioned on “Fair Use in the U.S. Economy.” The purpose of this report is to “measure the footprint of [...]

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When should the government intervene?

On September 13, 2007 By

There has not been a lot of comment on this site about the launch of PRISM (The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine – a coalition of publishing organizations that is campaigning against the proposals in Congress to require public access to federally-funded research. One reason for this lack of [...]

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What faculty think

On September 11, 2007 By

It is always dangerous to try and speculate about the opinions and attitudes of a large group, especially one af diverse as university faculty. But the University of California’s Office of Scholarly Communications always produces great research, and their recent report on “Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication” is no exception. The full [...]

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Copyright & the First Amendment

On September 7, 2007 By

Copyright blogs have been very active over a decision handed down in Golan v. Gonzalez by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 4th. This is the most recent in a line of challenges to the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (CTEA) that added twenty years to the duration of copyrights [...]

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Is Blogging Scholarship?

On September 6, 2007 By

It certainly can be, according to Margaret Schilt in “Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere,” reposted in Law.com from the “Legal Times.” Her article provides a very helpful thumbnail summary of the major legal blogs, but also reflects on the trend of legal scholarship toward this more informal and community-centered form [...]

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Salvos in the Copyright Wars

On September 3, 2007 By

This diatribe against YouTube recently appeared on the web site of a right wing lobbying organization with the innocuous name of “National Legal and Policy Center.” They are certainly correct that lots of copyright infringement happens on YouTube, but several of their arguments deserve response.

It is always odd [...]

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