Locke and I: Part 3 Continued from Locke and I: Part 2 “[A]s all things that are good in this act, the Company of Stationers minding nothing in it but what makes for their monopoly.” John Locke (1693) When I…
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Scholars are Subjected to the Power of These Dull Wretches
Locke and I: Part 2 Continued from Locke and I: Part 1 [T]he Company of Stationers have obtained from the Crown a patent to print all, or at least the greatest part, of the classic authors, upon pretence, as I hear,…
A Lazy, Ignorant Company of Stationers, To Say No Worse of Them
Locke and I: Part 1 “By this act England loses in general, scholars in particular are grounded, and nobody gets, but a lazy, ignorant Company of Stationers, to say no worse of them.” John Locke (1693) A few days ago my phone…
Berkeley Technology Law Journal on Orphan Works
Volume 27(3) of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal is now published. This issue is based on last year’s Orphan Works & Mass Digitization: Obstacles & Opportunities Symposium. It contains eight papers, by Register of Copyright Maria Pallante, Randal Picker, Stef van…
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Academic Authors and Legal Scholars’ Amicus Brief in the GSU Copyright Case
“For centuries, scholars and educators have excerpted the works of their colleagues, transforming them from individual, static monographs into dynamic pedagogical and intellectual tools for classroom learning. Such transformations reside at the heart of fair use, a core copyright law…
