Abraham Lincoln’s Gift to Copyright for Photographers
Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University School of Law; and Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Law beginning August 2020. This […]
A Celebration of Black Lives in Creativity
As culture influences art, art can also influence culture. The creative community enriches our lives in so many ways and helps us see the world from many different perspectives. Creative […]
Shampooing Baby Elephants, Buddha’s Tooth, and the World Intellectual Property Organization
Copyright Michael J. Remington (2020) A memory resides in my brain about a special week in the Republic of Sri Lanka. Previously untold, a secret copyright story can be recollected […]
Hip Hop and the Engine of Free Expression
I love hip hop. I have loved hip hop for as long as I can remember, not only for its sound and lyrical content, but perhaps equally for what it […]
What the Age of the “Hack” Teaches Us About Copyright Terms
“Students of the nineteenth-century drama come sooner or later to the realization that the most important dramatist of the period was Shakespeare.” – Marvin Felheim, The Theater of Augustin Daly (1956) […]
Senators and Creators Say Notice and Takedown System is Broken, While Platforms Blame the System’s Failures on Creators
Panel 2 [This post is the second of two covering this week’s Senate Subcommittee on IP hearing, titled Is the DMCA’s Notice and Takedown System Working in the 21st Century?. […]
A Little Piece of Copyright History from 2009
For the Copyright Alliance’s blog series called The Secret History of Copyright, I thought it would be interesting to share an actual piece of history. In early 2009 as the […]
Creator Community Rallies to Support the Public During COVID-19 Challenges
If you look up the word “community” in the dictionary, you’ll find it defined as a group of people who reside in a certain locale, share a government or religion, […]
Remembering the Creators We Lost to Coronavirus
The work of the creative community has been a comfort to almost all of us during the coronavirus pandemic. From books to music, movies/TV to broadcast theatre productions, photographs to […]
Internet Archive’s “Emergency Library”: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
The old saying that “life is unpredictable” is certainly an understatement these days, with COVID-19 forcing the world to face the biggest global pandemic that any of us have experienced […]