Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
I have complained more than once over the past few years that the copyright law is complicated, arcane, and counterintuitive; and that the upshot of that is that people don't believe that the copyright law says what it does say. People do seem to buy into copyright norms, but they don't translate those norms into the rules that the copyright statute does; they find it very hard to believe that there's really a law out there that says the stuff the copyright law says.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Litman, Jessica D. "Copyright Non–Compliance (Or Why We Can’t “Just Say Yes” to Licensing)." In Foundations of Intellectual Property, edited by Robert Patrick Merges and Jane C. Ginsburg, 425-428. Foundations of Law Series. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2004.
Comments
This is an excerpt reprint of "Copyright Noncompliance (or why we can't "Just say yes" to licensing)" originally published in 29 N.Y.U.J.INT'L L. & POL. 237 (1997). Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved.