Michael Madison

One of the small pleasures of teaching copyright law in Pittsburgh is pointing out the city’s contributions to copyright history.… Read More »The End of Aiken Chicken

Congratulations to the University of Pittsburgh Ultimate team (@PittUltimate) for winning the 2012 college Ultimate championship!  Pitt beat Wisconsin, 15-10,… Read More »Ultimate Names

I have a new short fair use paper up at SSRN: “Madisonian Fair Use.”  It was published recently at the Cardozo… Read More »Papers, New Papers

Musician and geek David Lowery (Wikipedia bio here) ranted back in April about the current state of the music industry and… Read More »More on the Demise of Music

A petition at whitehouse.gov went live this morning, asking that the fruits of taxpayer-funded research be made publicly accessible — in effect broadening the existing NIH policy.

Go to access2research.org for more information about this campaign, and a link to the petition page. The organizers are hoping to get 25,000 signatures, and to get to that level relatively quickly.  Anyone over age 13 can sign.  Please consider signing.  I signed.  #openaccess.