INFO 6940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: United States House Committee On The Judiciary, Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, Orphan Works
12 Aug 2016
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What is a copy: the way the computer works is seen as okay, perfect 10 v google perfect 10 sued google for thumbnail, google won. What"s an author: some work requires deeply collaborative cultural forms. How do conditions of digital production, distribution and consumption challenge existing copyright assumptions: the physical protection is obscurity and durability. Limiting/ rolling back: creative commons licensing in response of all or nothingness. Extending/ strengthening: streamlined enforcement, import copyright into law (higher education opportunity act of 2008 included a clause about copyright. Maria pallante, us register of copyrights the next great copyright act . Asks congress to pass another bill for this century. Establish house judiciary committee hearings to deal with the issue. Utilitarian policy designed to grant people monopolies over invention. Incentives to invent if you don"t give people incentive to invent, people can"t recover cost. Incentive to develop/ commercialize things discovered in universities are not being made in the market.
