Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Comedies of fair use, event at NY Institute for the Humanities

Comedies of fair use, event at NY Institute for the Humanities
The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University
Symposium April 28 - 30, 2006
"Some of the most contentious issues bedeviling cultural life today are increasingly coming to revolve around the question of what proper deference ought to be paid to the notion of intellectual property. Just what is copyright, what is its point, who is it designed to protect (individual creators and their legatees, be they individual or corporate, and necessarily to the same extent?) and what is it designed to foster (the most thrivingly fertile intellectual community and intercourse possible?)? "

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