Jessica Litman

The general public is used to thinking of copyright (if it thinks of it at all) as marginal and arcane. But copyright is central to our society's information policy and affects what we can read, view, hear, use, or learn. In 1998 Congress enacted new laws greatly expanding copyright owners' control over individuals' private uses of their works. The efforts to enforce these new rights laws have resulted in highly publicized legal battles between established media, including major record labels and motion picture studios, and new upstart internet companies such as MP3.com and Napster. Jessica Litman questions whether copyright laws crafted by lawyers and their lobbyists really make sense for the vast majority of us. Should every interaction between ordinary consumers and copyright-protected works be restricted by law? Is it practical to enforce such laws, or expect consumers to obey them? What are the effects of such laws on the exchange of information in a free society? Litman's critique exposes the 1998 copyright law as an incoherent patchwork. She argues for reforms that reflect the way people actually behave in their daily digital interactions. The Maize Books edition includes both an afterword written in 2006 exploring the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing and a new Postscript reflecting on the consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as it nears its twentieth birthday.

Digital Copyright

Jane C. Ginsburg

Mary L. Kevlin

Cases and Materials : 2003 Case Supplement and Statutory Appendix

Trademark and Unfair Competition Law

The 2006 Case Supplement and Statutory Appendix to Trademark and Unfair Competition, Cases and Materials, Third Edition updates the casebook with information on important Supreme Court decisions (Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox), coverage of US adherence to the Madrid Protocol on international filing for trademark registration, and expanded materials on trademarks and the Internet.

Jessica Litman

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