On Monday, November 8th, TechDirt.com reviewed my law review article titled Sampling, Looping & Mashing … Oh My! How Hip Hop Music is Scratching More Than the Surface of Copyright Law in its post “Time To Remix Copyright Law: The Hip Hop Case Study,” by TechDirt.com’s Mike Masnik.
In the article, I argue that copyright law is ill-suited when applied to music generally, and genres like hip hop in particular simply because of the way music is created. Outfits like TechDirt.com have been arguing the same thing for decades and is a leader in the “it’s just how music is made” camp to reform copyright laws to optimize benefits for all parties involved.
My article will appear in The Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal’s Spring 2011 issue. Fordham’s journal is the number one ranked entertainment, arts and sports law journal, and the number sixth ranked intellectual property law journal. IPLJ articles have been read into the Congressional Record, as well as cited in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and in amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court as well as cited recently by the high court itself in the Bilski decision.
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