Copycense
This blawg covers the landscape of digital content and media, with a special emphasis on copyright and licensing.
Author: K. Matthew Dames is the founder and principal of Washington, D.C.-based Seso Group, an information strategy and advisory firm that specializes in helping organizations create, archive, deliver, share and protect digital assets.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Legal Technology • Consultant
Recent Posts from Copycense
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The (Second) William Patry Interview
Editor’s Note: Copycense executive editor K. Matthew Dames interviews William Patry a second time. (The first interview occurred in late 2006, and was published in 2007, the same year West Publishing released the multi-volume treatise…
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Is Creative Commons Good for Copyright?
One of the beauties and frustrations of dealing with issues online is the immediate feedback loop and the possibility that such a loop amounts to little more than people talking at each other, rather than…
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Copycense: The William Patry Interview
Editor’s Note: William F. Patry has a new book out entitled Moral Panics & The Copyright Wars (2009, Oxford University Press) [Amazon.com; Barnes & Noble; author’s book blog]. Patry, one of this nation’s foremost authorities…
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Your Copyright Responsibility As a Citizen
We have been extraordinarily busy lately, and therefore have yet to write on important issues like the Amazon Kindle situation. Yet, we felt compelled to write this entry after two occurrences over the past four…
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Two Years Later, We Still Cannot “Free Jammie”
In October 2007, we wrote in these digital pages an article entitled “Should We Still ‘Free Jammie’?” The article’s title referred to a then-existing campaign to elevate Jammie Thomas-Rasset (then Jammie Thomas) to political prisoner…
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Copyright for the Boulevard & the Bourgeoisie
Here at Copycense, we have been investigating our editorial and business models in light of several changes in the way we provide information about copyright, content, media, and information policy to our audience, as well…
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Why the Frame of “Piracy” Matters
“Since the U.S. Navy rescued Capt. Richard Phillips in April, many news outlets have been writing about piracy. Interestingly, some news outlets have raised an important question about “piracy” as a term: In light of…
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Foreign Affairs As The New Copyright Law, Part 3 of 3
[Editor’s Note: This is final part of a three-part series on the intersection of trade agreements, foreign affairs, and U.S. copyright law. Part 1 was published in Copycense on May 27; Part 2 was published…
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Foreign Affairs As The New Copyright Law, Part 2 of 3
[Editor’s Note: This is the second of a three-part series on the intersection of trade agreements, foreign affairs, and U.S. copyright law. Part 1 was published on May 28; Part 3 will be published on…
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Foreign Affairs As The New Copyright Law, Part 1 of 3
[Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series on the intersection of trade agreements, foreign affairs, and U.S. copyright law. Portions of this part were published previously as Dames, K. Matthew (2007). Trade…