http://madisonian.net/2006/10/07/tushnet-on-copyrights-privileging-of-transgressive-fair-use/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:06:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/10/07/tushnet-on-copyrights-privileging-of-transgressive-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-84576 madisonian.net » Celebrity Rights Management Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:02:43 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=834#comment-84576 [...] King and Parks strike me as “public figures,” whose works or lives should be open to inspire all. But on the other hand, should law be creating explicit economic incentives to build “celebrity,” but fail to give IP rights to these figures, who’ve done a lot more to promote justice than, say, James Dean? This paradox reminds me of Tushnet’s recent talk on fair use doctrine’s apparent privileging of transgressive (and even misogynistic) uses over more conventional ones. [...] [...] King and Parks strike me as “public figures,” whose works or lives should be open to inspire all. But on the other hand, should law be creating explicit economic incentives to build “celebrity,” but fail to give IP rights to these figures, who’ve done a lot more to promote justice than, say, James Dean? This paradox reminds me of Tushnet’s recent talk on fair use doctrine’s apparent privileging of transgressive (and even misogynistic) uses over more conventional ones. [...]

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