This Brief and Pleasant Guide to NFTs and Copyright Law is written by Professor Michael D. Murray, the author of A Short and Happy Guide to Copyright Law (West 2d ed. 2022), and the principle investigator of the Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs, and the Metaverse Law Project at the University of...

This Brief and Pleasant Guide to NFTs and Copyright Law is written by Professor Michael D. Murray, the author of A Short and Happy Guide to Copyright Law (West 2d ed. 2022), and the principle investigator of the Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs, and the Metaverse Law Project at the University of...

This paper will briefly discuss about copyright individual and collective management, and will examine legal bases for collective rights management (CRM). The main concern of this paper is to assess the establishment and development process of collective management organizations (CMO) in Kosovo,...

This review of William Patry's How to Fix Copyright highlights three of Patry's themes. First is Patry's insistence that copyright policy be based on real-world evidence, a suggestion that should be uncontroversial but instead runs headlong into the near-religious commitments of copyright...

In the past, free distribution of copyrighted content was rare and was usually performed in the service of advertising or politics. Today, the ease of digital copying and distribution has enabled authors and artists to freely share digital copies of their creative and original works with broad...

This Article argues for a moderate but significant recalibration of the dominant interpretation of §512 of the DMCA. While ISPs are correct that the existing language of §512 does not give copyright owners a right to the “take down and stay down” regime they would prefer, it does ask more...

As business clients make available an ever-increasing array of online content and services, the specter of liability for inappropriate online content looms large. Still, U.S. federal law protects businesses that adopt appropriate take-down regimes for copyright infringement, defamatory content,...

Digital communications technologies have led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfil their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit online exhibitions, search...