[PEN-L:30121] Re: FW: Duke University Receives Grant to Limit Copyright Expansion

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is excellent news.  I assume that Duke was chosen because James Boyle
teaches there.

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:55:18AM +1200, Bill Rosenberg wrote:
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> Duke University Receives Grant to Limit Copyright Expansion
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> An anonymous donor has given $1 million to the Duke University Law
> School to fund efforts to find "the correct balance" of copyrighted
> material and that which is available in the public domain. The money
> will fund a new center that will consider laws such as the Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act and their impact on access to creative work. An
> official at Duke said the balance between the rights of intellectual
> property owners and the public domain has in recent years shifted in
> favor of copyright owners, to the detriment of having "a rich culture
> and an innovative society." CNET, 4 September 2002
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-956637.html
>

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