Don’t miss the comments to this post, wherein Joe Gratz, who unlike me is an actual lawyer, sets me straight on the Golan decision and the relationship between copyright and the First Amendment. It’s awesome having smart and knowledgeable readers.
Golan and the First Amendment
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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