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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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Harper & Row gets litigated as a First Amendment/free press case by Floyd Abrams; Court relies on Nimmer. Court chose to rule quite narrowly in part b/c of concessions during litigation. Fair use is a failure b/c the only way to know if something is fair or not is to litigate to the Supreme Court, and you might not know even then.

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WIPIP session 5: Anti-Circumvention

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Amazon went into users’ Kindles and removed copies of Orwell’s 1984. Governance seam between fixation and use: at point of fixation a work is of no particular value to anyone but author; for a work to flourish it needs to be experienced by others, which requires copying, distribution, display, performance, etc. Property v.

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