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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
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  • Subject: [internetworkers] Jessica Litman - Friday, March 30 at 12:05pm
  • Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:09:50 -0400 (EDT)

Professor Jessica Litman of Michigan Law School

"Copyright Liberties"

Date: 3/30/07
Time: 12:05 p.m.
Location: Duke Law School, Room 3041
Lunch will be served

In this talk, Professor Litman challenges the conventional paradigm of copyright statutory interpretation, under which unlicensed uses of copyrighted works are deemed infringing unless excused. That rubric was never accurate, she argues, and relying on it has distorted our thinking. In particular, it has encouraged us to give short shrift to the core importance in the copyright scheme of reading, listening, viewing, watching, playing and using copyrighted works. For most of its history, copyright law was designed to maximize the opportunities for non-exploitative enjoyment of copyrighted works in order to encourage reading, listening, watching and their cousins. Litman terms the freedom to engage in those activities "copyright liberties", and argues that they are both deeply embedded in copyright's design and crucial to its promotion of the Progress of Science.

Litman is a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches copyright law, Internet law, and trademarks and unfair competition. She is the author of the influential book Digital Copyright as well as numerous articles, and the coauthor with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin of a casebook on Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law.

This lecture is open to all. Boxed lunches will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.



  • [internetworkers] Jessica Litman - Friday, March 30 at 12:05pm, Paul Jones, 03/27/2007

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