Copyright and Social Practices

I’ve been giving talks centered on what I call a social patterns or social practices approach to copyright law, using fair use as a point of entry. Here’s the long version of the argument. I always get asked: what is a social pattern? what is a social practice? How can we define the law according to something that we can’t see? I’ve argued that we can see them. At last, the blogosphere helps. Jeff Jarvis explains “journalism.”