In the last year, podcasts have taken the world by storm. We see examples in myriad environments, from hobbyists creating their own quot;showsquot; to NPR releasing its programs through a vibrant network of podcasts. We see companies - from small businesses to large corporations like IBM -...

On January 1, 2003, a small, quiet historic transformation took place throughout the United States: unpublished works in mass came into the public domain for the first time. Section 302 of the 1976 Copyright Act created a unified system of duration, whereby unpublished and published works carry...

This law review article explores the traditional concept of a teacher exception to the work for hire doctrine, and asks whether it still exists today. Part I introduces readers to the changing nature of the university as a commercialized space, resulting in increasing interest in works produced...

This work is an attempt to sort out the relationship between virtual property and common law property. How are we to understand the relationship between a virtual table and an actual table? What does property in this context mean exactly? While many have written about this topic from a myriad of...

My work looks at the legal complexity of determining the duration of copyright, and presents through a case study the odd results of our current system. Using British writer Vera Brittain (1893-1970), my work uses her 40 works to show inconsistencies in the system within an international...