Do We Have a Right to Speak with Another's Language? Eldred and the Duration of Copyright

Authors

Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2004

Editor(s)

Paul L. C. Torremans

ISBN

9041122788

Publisher

Kluwer Publishing

Language

en-US

Abstract

The law embodies two contradictory sets of rights and interests pertaining to copyright and speech. On the one hand. stand authors' claims to deserve compensation and control over their works. On the other hand stand the public's claims to be free to build on and deploy the cultural works that pervade daily life.

Comments

Reprinted in 2 The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights 526, Christopher May, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing Limited (2010).

Recommended Citation

Wendy J. Gordon, Do We Have a Right to Speak with Another's Language? Eldred and the Duration of Copyright , in Copyright and Human Rights 109 (Paul L. C. Torremans ed., 2004).
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