User-Generated Content, Copyright Policy, and Blockheaded Authors
by Tom W. Bell on November 2, 2007 · 0 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..]
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.