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Billowing White Goo
(2008)
In this paper, written for a symposium on Fair Use: Incredibly Expanding or Extraordinarily Shrinking?, I argue that the size of the fair use footprint has remained about the same over the past three decades, while the ...
Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade
(2009)
Global climate change is the most significant environmental issue facing our nation and the world. There no longer is any question that global warming is occurring. Nor is there any serious debate about whether human ...
Environmental Crimes Comes of Age: The Evolution of Criminal Enforcement in the Environmental Regulatory Scheme
(2009)
The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 often is considered the first environmental criminal statute because it contains strict liability provisions that make it a misdemeanor to discharge refuse into navigable waters of the ...
Sharing and Stealing
(Hastings Communications & Entertainment Law Journal, 2004)
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 ...
The Copyright Revision Act of 2026
(2009-05)
In this lecture, the Twelfth Annual Honorable Helen Wilson Nies Memorial Lecture in Intellectual Property Law, I suggest we may be gearing up to persuade Congress to embark on a new round of copyright revision. If history ...
Creative Reading
(2007)
In this short essay, a comment on Rebecca Tushnet’s Payment in Credit: Copyright Law and Subcultural Creativity, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 133 (2007), I argue that scholars have undervalued the copyright interests of ...
What’s in a Label?
(Brill Academic Publishers; Martinus Nijhoff Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-01)