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Ladataan... Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property LawTekijä: Jason Mazzone
![]() - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Another book about intellectual property owners’ overreaching, with a chapter on trademark but mostly about copyright claims—claims to own public domain works, claims that there’s no such thing as fair use, contracts that deny fair use rights, and so on. Mazzone suggests administrative solutions—have an agency make rules for what’s fair use, and overriding private agreements to the contrary. I’m not a fan of agency determinations; I don’t think they’d solve the basic problem of resource disparities and intimidation, but I do like the idea of imposing public policy limits on corporations, and making it easier to recover damages from someone who wrongly asserts copyright claims over a public domain work or a fair use. But unfortunately, the law is moving further away from that—Congress recently amended the patent law to make it harder to recover against false patent claims, and it’s all we can do to beat back increases in copyright protection. Changing norms may be our only feasible defense in the US, though matters are potentially more balanced elsewhere. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Intellectual property law in the United States does not work well and it needs to be reformed—but not for the reasons given by most critics. The issue is not that intellectual property rights are too easily obtained, too broad in scope, and too long in duration. Rather, the primary problem is overreaching by publishers, producers, artists, and others who abuse intellectual property law by claiming stronger rights than the law actually gives them. From copyfraud—like phony copyright notices attached to the U.S. Constitution—to lawsuits designed to prevent people from poking fun at Barbie, from controversies over digital sampling in hip-hop to Major League Baseball's ubiquitous restriction on sharing any "accounts and descriptions of this game," overreaching claims of intellectual property rights are everywhere. Overreaching interferes with legitimate uses and reproduction of a wide variety of works, imposes enormous social and economic costs, and ultimately undermines creative endeavors. As this book reveals, the solution is not to change the scope or content of intellectual property rights, but to create mechanisms to prevent people asserting rights beyond those they legitimately possess. While there are many other books on intellectual property, this is the first to examine overreaching as a distinct problem and to show how to solve it. Jason Mazzone makes a series of timely proposals by which government, organizations, and ordinary people can stand up to creators and content providers when they seek to grab more than the law gives them. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The author does a great job of explaining copyright and trademarks. I also feel that he explained fair use (which he is constantly mentioning) and public domain works well. He does seem to harp on fair use and public domain a lot. I do agree with him that fair use is being eroded and that the public domain is not being protected.
While I agree with him that content providers, publishers, archives, museums and the like are over-expanding their copyright and trademark rights I don't quite agree with his solutions. He seems a bit naive when he talks about his solutions. Creating a new agency just to deal with fair use or having a private attorney general, those won't be abused, right?? He does acknowledge that the private attorney general idea could be abused by unsavory lawyers but I don't think his measures to stop the abuse were harsh enough. I have to give him credit for actually coming up with some solutions when many are just ignoring the problem.
I would recommend this book to people wanting to learn more about copyright law and the problems we are having with it. (