Villanova University Legal Working Paper Series
Villanova University School of Law Working Paper Series
Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE, Peter K. Yu, ed., Vol. 1, pp. 445-61, Praeger 2007
Abstract
Copyright law's default settings inhibit sharing and adaptation of creative works even though new digital technologies greatly enhance individuals' capacity to engage in creative conversation. Creative Commons licenses enable a form of conversational copyright through which creators share their works, primarily over the Internet, while asserting some limitation on user's right with respect to works in the licensed commons. More specifically, this chapter explains the problems in copyright law to which Creative Commons licenses respond, the methods chosen, and why the machine-readable and public aspects of the licenses are specific examples of a more general phenomenon in digital copyright law that will grow in importance in the coming years.
Subject Area
Intellectual Property Law
Recommended Citation
Michael W. Carroll,
"Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright"
(April 2007).
Villanova University Legal Working Paper Series.
Villanova University School of Law Working Paper Series.
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