User-Generated Content, Copyright Policy, and Blockheaded Authors

by on November 2, 2007 · 2 comments

Tomorrow, at Vanderbilt Law School, I’ll join a panel discussion on The Future of Copyright, part of the Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law’s symposium, User-Generated Confusion: The Legal and Business Implications of Web 2.0. My presentation: User-Generated Content, Copyright Policy, and Blockheaded Authors. Rest assured that, though I deploy such phrases as “seizing the means of reproduction” and “the specter of copyism,” that says more about my love of wordplay than it does anything about Marxism. You can download the PowerPoint file here.

[Crossposted to Intellectual Privilege and Agoraphilia..]

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About Tom W. Bell

Tom W. Bell teaches as a professor at Chapman University School of Law, in Orange County, California. He specializes in intellectual property and high-tech law, topics on which he has written a variety of articles. After earning his J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law, Prof. Bell practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute, and joined the Chapman faculty in 1998. For fun, he surfs, plays guitar, and goofs around with his kids.

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  • http://www2.blogger.com/profile/14380731108416527657 Steve R.

    I hope that your presentation went well. I liked the phrase “Technological advances have allowed copyright users to “seize the means of reproduction” (as we might say in echo of Marx).” I appreciate what you write, but I have not been able to keep up with it.

  • http://www2.blogger.com/profile/14380731108416527657 Steve R.

    I hope that your presentation went well. I liked the phrase “Technological advances have allowed copyright users to “seize the means of reproduction” (as we might say in echo of Marx).” I appreciate what you write, but I have not been able to keep up with it.

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