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As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, I insist on calling patents and copyrights "intellectual monopolies". That'...

In the dark, twisted world of copyright, one ray of light has been William Patry's blog . No more : I have decided to end the blog, aft...

Here's a short but poignant meditation on the centrality of sharing to the joy of books: Ultimately, I do not much care whether these bo...

William Patry, incidentally Google's copyright man, and, more pertinently, pretty much the world's leading expert on anglo-american ...

There is a counter-reformation movement afoot in the world of copyright. The purpose of the movement is to chill the willingness of countrie...

Not mine, but Neil Netanel ’s: Numerous commentators, including myself, have decried the growth of copyright holder rights in recent decades...

William Patry is Senior Copyright Counsel, Google; he's also author of a seven-volume, 6,000 page treatise on copyright, which suggests ...

It would be hard to imagine a more definitive study of the field of copyright than this : over 5,500 pages, in seven volumes, occupying 25 i...

Some people might say I already write too much about copyright; but for those who don't, and are dying for even more of the stuff, here&...