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COMMONS MAGAZINE

Artists vs. Copyright Law

January 15, 2010
World Fair Use Day explains why artists need the right to remix and mash up culture.

A Tangle of Thorns

July 30, 2009
The oddly compelling literary remix of Nabokov's "Lolita" and Lessig's "Future of Ideas."

Google's Trojan Horse

April 8, 2009
Expanding access to digitized books while building an unprecedented monopoly.

Fair Use Gets Its Groove Back

August 25, 2008
A cause for celebration: the “dancing baby” case may proceed!

Associated Press Tramples on Fair Use Rights

June 18, 2008
Wanna quote five words? It will cost you $12.50.

Stanford Center for Internet and Society

A public-interest technology law and policy program at Stanford Law School that studies how the interaction of new technologies and the law can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, privacy, public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry