Books in the Digital Age: A Case Study (Spring 2016)

Section 12

Week 12 (April 21): Digital copyright policymaking

Tom Rubin

Copyright law is a 20th (and, at times, 19th) century blueprint that is ill-suited to the design and construction of the 21st century digital world. Fixes are urgently needed yet policy lags farther and farther behind. We will study opportunities for change and propose changes to modernize the Copyright Act.

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