Videos
Creativity & Culture
Professor James Boyle (Duke University School of Law) explores musical borrowing, mashups, and how the law shapes musical creativity in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “A Song’s Tale: Mashups, Borrowing and the Law.”
Professor Michael Carroll (American University’s Washington College of Law) traces the evolution of the concept of property ownership in music in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “Musicians in Copyright’s Federated Domain.”
Professor Garrett Epps (University of Baltimore School of Law) discusses ownership and originality in this highlight from his presentation “Bring Me the Head of Peter Pan” at the Center’s “Workshop in Honor of No Law!“
Professor William Fisher (Harvard Law School) outlines five different ways that governments can stimulate the production of ‘public goods’ in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “Alternative Compensation Systems for Digital Entertainment.”
Professor James T. Hamilton (Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy) analyzes the role of economic forces in journalism and whether the Internet can solve ‘rational ignorance’ in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “All the News That’s Fit to Sell.”
Professor Justin Hughes (Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) discusses the heated debate over protecting ‘geographical indications’ such as Champagne, Parmesan, and Budweiser in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “Champagne, Feta and Bourbon – The Spirited Debate about Geographical Indications.”
Professor Jennifer Jenkins (Duke University School of Law) contrasts two puzzles of ‘transformative’ fair use in this highlight from her presentation at the Center’s “Copyright Limitations and Exceptions: Promoting Greater Access to Scientific and Scholarly Knowledge” workshop.
Professor Jessica Litman (University of Michigan Law School) emphasizes the fundamental importance of historic ‘copyright liberties’ such as the freedom to read, listen to, and view works in this highlight from her Information Ecology Lecture, “Copyright Liberties.”
Professor Neil Netanel (UCLA School of Law) explores copyright’s paradoxical relationship to free speech – as both an engine of free expression and a burden on free expression – in this highlight from his presentation at the Center’s “Workshop in Honor of No Law!”
Professor Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas School of Law) analyzes the economic impacts of file sharing in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “The Effect of File Sharing on the Sale of Entertainment Products: The Case of Recorded Music and Movies.”
Science & Innovation
Professor Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School and Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society) illustrates how a ‘radically decentralized economy’ of production and consumption on the Internet allows democracy to flourish in this highlight from his Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property, “Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information.”
James Bessen (Director, Research on Innovation) offers empirical evidence about whether the incentives provided by today’s patent system outweigh its costs in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “Empirical Evidence on Patents: Do Patents Work as Property?”
Professor Michael W. Carroll (American University’s Washington College of Law) explains how the economics of scientific scholarship are compatible with open access in this highlight from his presentation at the Center’s “Copyright Limitations and Exceptions: Promoting Greater Access to Scientific and Scholarly Knowledge” workshop.
Professor Daniel Kevles (Yale University) discusses legal and ethical issues raised by gene patents in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “Patenting Life and Its Parts: Ethics and Rights in the Political Economy of Intellectual Property.”
Professor Lawrence Lessig (Harvard University) discusses the evolution of the Internet and how it was built upon an ‘innovation commons’ in this highlight from his Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property, “Architecting Innovation.”
James Love (Director, Knowledge Ecology International) presents a proposed ‘prize fund’ that would spur global production of medicines in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare Research and Development.”
Professor Arti Rai (Duke University School of Law) describes the important benefits and limitations of open and collaborative research in the sciences in this highlight from her Information Ecology Lecture, “’Open Source’ Biology.”
Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University) reviews intellectual property and monopoly abuses in this highlight from his Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property, “The Economic Foundations of Intellectual Property.”
Professor Eric von Hippel (MIT Sloan School of Management) illustrates the central role that ‘users’ play in creating innovative products in this highlight from his Information Ecology Lecture, “Democratizing Innovation and Norms-based Intellectual Property Rights.”
John Wilbanks (Vice President of Science, Creative Commons) explains the crucial importance of building a ‘worldwide web for science’ in this highlight from his presentation at the Center’s “Copyright Limitations and Exceptions: Promoting Greater Access to Scientific and Scholarly Knowledge” workshop.
Framed! Conference
To Clear or not to ClearFilmmaker Chris Hegedus discusses how rights clearance practices have changed since the making of “Don’t Look Back”
Disappearing History?Filmmaker Orlando Bagwell talks about making “Citizen King” and why “Eyes on the Prize” is no longer in circulation.
Great Composers StealComposer Anthony Kelley visits classical and jazz traditions and explains why you can find a doppelganger for almost any tune.
Documentary FilmmakingLegal experts James Boyle and John Sloss discuss the legal and practical realities facing documentary filmmakers, including copyright law and errors and omissions insurance.
Music Sampling Music lawyer Whitney Broussard describes how law can change the kind of music that gets made, and how clearance processes can make the whole artistic community poorer.
Framed! Contest Winners
Powerful Pictures by Daniel Love
Music For Our Grandchildren by Alek and Kuba Tarkowski
An Army, One by One by Christopher Sims
Stealing Home by Terry Tucker and Andrew Fazekas
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