http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55736 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/retrieve/204103 http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55736 Search the Channel search http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56223 Title: Lawful Personal Use <br/> <br/>Authors: Litman, Jessica http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56222 Title: Sharing and Stealing <br/> <br/>Authors: Litman, Jessica <br/> <br/>Abstract: The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation and mass dissemination of a wide variety of works. Until recently, most means of mass dissemination required a significant capital investment. The lion's share of the economic proceeds of copyrights were therefore channeled to publishers and distributors, and the law was designed to facilitate that. Digital distribution invites us to reconsider all of the assumptions underlying that model. We are still in the early history of the networked digital environment, but already we've seen experiments with both direct and consumer-to-consumer distribution of works of authorship. One remarkable example of the difference consumer-to-consumer dissemination can make is seen in the astonishing information space that has grown up on the world wide web. The Internet has transformed information and the way we interact with it by creating an easily accessible, dynamic, shared information space. Its success derives from the fact that information sharing on the Web is almost frictionless; individuals are free to post information they learned from others without having to secure their permissions. This paper proposes that we look for some of the answers to the vexing problem of unauthorized exchange of music files on the Internet in the wisdom intellectual property law has accumulated about the protection and distribution of factual information. In particular, it analyzes the digital information resource that has developed on the Internet, and suggests that what we should be trying to achieve is an online musical smorgasbord of comparable breadth and variety. It proposes that we adopt a legal architecture that encourages but does not compel copyright owners to make their works available for widespread sharing over digital networks, and that we incorporate into that architecture a payment mechanism, based on a blanket or collective license, designed to compensate creators and to bypass unnecessary intermediaries. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56221 Title: Digital Copyright <br/> <br/>Authors: Litman, Jessica <br/> <br/>Description: This is the text of 2006 paperback edition of the book (originally published in 2001) with minor corrections and a short afterword http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55289 Title: Myths and Facts About Affirmative Action <br/> <br/>Authors: Lempert, Richard O.; Chambers, David L.; Adams, Terry K. <br/> <br/>Description: EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION | Many policy positions exist around the issue of affirmative action in education. University of Michigan professors Richard Lempert, David Chambers, and Institute for Social Research senior survey specialist Terry Adams, share the results of an empirical study that surveyed minority and white alumni who had graduated from the University of Michigan Law School over a period of 16 years. Their findings, based on a comparative analysis of academic and professional success, help the authors shed light on what they argue are myths about affirmative action.