Personal Responsibility and the Copyright Fight
We need to take some personal responsibility in shifting the copyright landscape. DRM, EULAs, and litigious industry associations are avoidable problems without resorting to policy reforms.
Category: Copyright
You Still Have the Right to Resell Your Books and CDs—For Now
Is a world without copyright’s “first sale” doctrine—in which you wouldn’t necessarily own your books outright, but instead might only be licensing them—really be so bad?
The Copyright Quirk That Is Essentially a Tax on Speech (and a Takings)
A legal rathole looking at the Copyright Act’s requirement that all works published in the U.S. be deposited by the publisher in the Library of Congress—whether the publisher is seeking copyright or not. Is this a takings? A tax on speech? It’s unclear, but it’s surely a sign of how screwed up copyright law is.
