Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity

Covers both the ways law governs creative endeavors and the ways creativity informs the practice of law.

Author: Peter Friedman is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He also authors What Is Fair Use?

Blawg Related Categories: University of Detroit Mercy • Law Professor • Legal Research and Writing

Recent Posts from Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity

The Amen Break: 40 years of remixing a drum break; but now ownership is being asserted over it (and not be the creators)
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This is a terrific new innovation. Today, from Google: Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google…
Those naive little innocents may be a lot smarter than you, Mr. Prosecutor.
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Fair Use, Fairy Tales, and Collage: more proof Girl Talk won’t be stopped
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this brilliant account of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. The fact it has never been…