Brett Frischmann

Tim Lee has a series of interesting posts (here, here, here, here and here) that develop the case against platform… Read More »Against Platform Monopolies

Professor Jonathan Verschuuren has posted an interesting paper that analyzes the “things lawyers call principles of environmental law.” Professor Verschuuren… Read More »Principles of environmental law

Dan Moylan and I have just posted a paper on ssrn, The Evolving Doctrine of Copyright Misuse. It is a… Read More »Copyright misuse

Tim Lee has (another) good post, Reverse Engineering and Innovation: Some Examples, over at the Technology Liberation Front. Tim uses… Read More »Tim Lee on Reverse Engineering and Innovation

Geoff Manne just sent me a very interesting press release from Microsoft, excerpts of which can be found below. Essentially, Microsoft and Creative Commons have worked together to create and release “a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft® Office applications.” This should make it even easier for many authors, artists, and other creators to manage their works with the flexible licensing options that Creative Commons has developed. I haven’t checked out the tool yet, but I plan to do so today. Very neat!
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