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1. When should the government intervene? - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2007/09/13/intervention/

   By definition, copyright is a government-granted monopoly that artificially supports the price of intellectual property to provide an (...)

2. Don't take my word for it - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2010/08/23/dont-take-my-word-for-it-2/

   Unfortunately, as the copyright law has grown more and more complex, full of new exceptions to try to mitigate the harms done by new (...)

3. New Research Guide to Bankruptcy Law

   https://dukelawref.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-research-guide-to-bankruptcy-law.html

   Most people first learn the concept of bankruptcy as children, when they run out of money in the board game Monopoly . If they are (...)

4. Salvos in the Copyright Wars - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2007/09/03/salvos/

   Because it creates an artificial monopoly, it must always balance the incentive created with the harm done to free competition.

5. Big victory for the public domain - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2009/04/06/big-victory-for-the-public-domain/

   As I have argued before (repeating remarks made by Anthony Falzone, who was one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in Golan ), copyright, as a (...)

6. Bad strategy and poor reporting - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2008/06/21/bad-strategy-and-poor-reporting/

   Indeed, fair use is a doctrine initially created by judges in the early 19th century (in the US) to mitigate the harmful effects of the (...)

7. What is DRM really good for? - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2009/01/10/what-is-drm-really-good-for/

   The reality, as Geist points out, is that “copyright is simply not the issue,” and government intervention to drastically strengthen the (...)

8. Fair use, by comparision - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2009/06/17/fair-use-by-comparision/

   In the US, after all, it is a common law doctrine that was developed by judges, intent on mitigating the most unfair applications of the (...)

9. A flurry of activity - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2009/04/30/a-flurry-of-activity/

   It is hardly a novel thought that there might be a anti-trust concern in the proposed monopoly over digitized books that would be (...)

10. Orphan works, fair use and best practices - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

    https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2009/07/30/orphan-works-fair-use-and-best-practices/

    Fair use is an exception to copyright’s monopoly that already exists and is currently available to potential users of orphan works.