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Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, New Expanded Edition
Keith Aoki
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Description for Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, New Expanded Edition
Paperback. Why do we have copyrights? What's "fair use"? This book provides a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property, and the digital world of remixed culture. Num Pages: 72 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; LNRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 277 x 214 x 4. Weight in Grams: 272.
A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? Eyes on the Prize, the great civil rights documentary, was pulled from circulation because the filmmakers’ rights to music and footage had expired. What’s going on here? It’s the collision of documentary filmmaking and intellectual property law, and it’s the inspiration for this comic book. Follow its heroine Akiko as she films her documentary and navigates the twists and turns of intellectual property. Why do we have ... Read more
A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? Eyes on the Prize, the great civil rights documentary, was pulled from circulation because the filmmakers’ rights to music and footage had expired. What’s going on here? It’s the collision of documentary filmmaking and intellectual property law, and it’s the inspiration for this comic book. Follow its heroine Akiko as she films her documentary and navigates the twists and turns of intellectual property. Why do we have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822344186
SKU
V9780822344186
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About Keith Aoki
Keith Aoki is a longtime cartoonist and Professor of Law of the University of California, Davis, School of Law. He is the author of Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property (forthcoming). James Boyle is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University Law School, a founder of the Center for the ... Read more
Reviews for Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, New Expanded Edition
“A knockout comic book about fair use and filmmaking. Bound by Law? riffs expertly on classic comic styles, from the Crypt Keeper to Mad Magazine, superheroes to Understanding Comics, and lays out a sparkling, witty, moving and informative story about how the eroded public domain has made documentary filmmaking into a minefield.”—Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the blog BoingBoing.net “An indispensable ... Read more