The Tyranny of Copyright?. Robert S. Boynton.
by Boynton, Robert S; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 64Business. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Copyright | Copyright Term Extension Act 1998 | Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998) | Intellectual property | Public domain (Copyright law)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "Once a dry and seemingly mechanical area of the American legal system, intellectual property law can now be found at the center of major disputes in the arts, sciences and...politics. Recent cases have involved everything from attempts to force the Girl Scouts to pay royalties for singing songs around campfires to the infringement suit brought by the estate of Margaret Mitchell against the publishers of Alice Randall's book "The Wind Done Gone" (which tells the story of Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" from a slave's perspective) to corporations like Celera Genomics filing for patents for human genes. The most publicized development came in September [2003], when the Recording Industry Association of America began suing music downloaders for copyright infringement, reaching out-of-court settlements for thousands of dollars with defendants as young as 12." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article reveals that "a number of influential lawyers, scholars and activists are increasingly concerned that copyright law is curbing our freedoms and making it harder to create anything new" and acknowledges that "this could be the first new social movement of the century."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Tyranny of Copyright?, Jan. 25, 2004; pp. 40-45.
"Once a dry and seemingly mechanical area of the American legal system, intellectual property law can now be found at the center of major disputes in the arts, sciences and...politics. Recent cases have involved everything from attempts to force the Girl Scouts to pay royalties for singing songs around campfires to the infringement suit brought by the estate of Margaret Mitchell against the publishers of Alice Randall's book "The Wind Done Gone" (which tells the story of Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" from a slave's perspective) to corporations like Celera Genomics filing for patents for human genes. The most publicized development came in September [2003], when the Recording Industry Association of America began suing music downloaders for copyright infringement, reaching out-of-court settlements for thousands of dollars with defendants as young as 12." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article reveals that "a number of influential lawyers, scholars and activists are increasingly concerned that copyright law is curbing our freedoms and making it harder to create anything new" and acknowledges that "this could be the first new social movement of the century."
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