Intellectual Property
Public Domain Day: January 1, 2012 — The (Life Plus) Seventy Year Itch …
If you live in Europe, January 1st 2012 was the day when the works of Louis Brandeis, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and hundreds of others emerged into the public domain — where they are now freely available for anyone to use, republish, translate or transform. You could copy, share, or make a digital library of their articles and books. What entered the public domain in the United States? Sadly, nothing and none will enter until 2019. Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain celebrates Public Domain Day, the annual event marking copyright expiration, by considering what could have entered the public domain, why it is shrinking, and why it should matter to you. » More
Courses
- 205: Antitrust
- 270: Intellectual Property
- 322: Copyright Law
- 369: Patent Law and Policy
- 375: International Intellectual Property
- 393: Trademark Law and Unfair Competition
- 465: Patent Claim Drafting and Foundations of Patent Strategy
- 529: Genetics and The Law
- 530: Entertainment Law
- 578: Musical Composition, Borrowing and the Law; From Mahler to Mashups
- 592: Telecommunications Law
- 705: Bioethics
- 724: Intellectual Property, Public Domain and Free Speech
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