Yale Suspends Support for Open Access Publisher
Science and medical libraries at Yale have announced that they are suspending financial support for Yale authors publishing in BioMed… Read More »Yale Suspends Support for Open Access Publisher
Faculty Blogs, at Pitt and Beyond
In a shameless bid for attention, I recently redesigned the Pitt Law School Faculty Blog. Unlike some faculty blogs, this… Read More »Faculty Blogs, at Pitt and Beyond
Working Paper Conferences
Frank Pasquale posted a comment on one presentation at the recently-concluded Intellectual Property Scholars Conference. I just got back from IPSC and wanted to record a couple of observations while they’re fresh. More below the jump.Read More »Working Paper Conferences
Codes and the Law, 38,000 Potential DUI Charges May Be Dropped
Apparently code really is law or rather code matters to the law. CNET reports that CMI which makes breathalyzers refuses… Read More »Codes and the Law, 38,000 Potential DUI Charges May Be Dropped
IPSC at DePaul; Loren on Copyright’s Needless Incentives
Four-fifths of the Madisonian blog is at the IPSC at Depaul this week. I’m really enjoying the papers so far. I highly recommend Lydia Loren’s Aligning Incentives with Reality: Using Motivation for Creation to Shape the Scope of Copyright Protection.
Loren argues that there are many types of works that are now getting copyright protection that don’t necessarily need to be incentivized by this legal regime. For example, she doubts whether the Vatican needs copyright protection to be motivated to produce encyclicals, or emailers need such protection to induce their scribblings. She proposes “less robust, or ‘thin,’ copyright protection for those types of works that do not require the incentive of the copyright to be created and distributed.” She worries that unneeded protection may lead to overproduction of certain works–a concern I share. But her presentation led me to a few questions.
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