Jennifer Jenkins and I are very proud of the two educational comic books we have designed and written. Both are about creativity and its constraints. Bound By Law explains copyright law and the fair use doctrine, focusing particularly on documentary film. Theft: A History of Music is a 2000 year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap. Both of them can be freely downloaded under Creative Commons Licenses, or purchased in paperback. For more detail, click on the images below.
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(When) Is Copyright Reform Possible?
Apple Updates — A Comic
Open Coursebook in Intellectual Property
So you’ve invented fantasy football, now what?
Free/Low Cost Intellectual Property Statutory Supplement
Persnickety Snit
Macaulay on Copyright
Mark Twain on the Need for Perpetual Copyright
Victor Hugo: Guardian of the Public Domain
“We Need To Start Seeing Other Futures..”
Discussion: “The Foolish War Against Song-Lyric Websites”
The Top Ten List of a Conference Planner
(EM)I Has A Dream
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Keith Aoki — A Remembrance Book
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