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Spotify’s Direct Listing and Foreign Private Issuers: Protecting Investors When Foreign Private Issuers List on a U.S. Exchange but Not on Their Home Exchange
Get PDFClark Memorandum: Fall 2020
No full textClark Memorandum: Fall 2020 A Feast of Fat Things And When He Came to Himself No Other Gods Before Me The Economics of Goodnesshttps://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/clarkmemo_gallery/1064/thumbnail.jp
Copyright’s Memory Hole
Get PDFThere is growing interest in using copyright to protect the privacy and reputation of people depicted in copyrighted works. This pressure is driven by heightened concerns about privacy and reputation on the Internet, plus copyright’s plaintiff-favorable attributes compared to traditional privacy and reputation torts.
The Constitution authorizes copyright law because its exclusive rights benefit society by increasing our knowledge. But copyright law is being misdeployed by suppressing socially valuable works in a counterproductive attempt to advance privacy and reputation interests. This results in “memory holes” in society’s knowledge, analogous to those discussed in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
This Article identifies some limited circumstances where copyright’s goals are benefited by considering privacy and reputational interests. In other circumstances, treating copyright law as a general-purpose privacy and reputation tort harms us all
The BYU Advocate
Get PDFOne of the roles of lawyers is to facilitate compromises among those who do not share a common vision for our society and to embed those compromises in laws and institutions. – D. Gordon Smithhttps://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/annual_reports/1009/thumbnail.jp
Clark Memorandum: Spring 2020
Get PDFOf Rights and Responsibilities: The Social Ecosystem of Religious Freedom I am the Woman Who Can Flashes of Light: Thoughts on Circumstantial Evidence Capital Markets and Human Flourishing Read on Issuuhttps://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/clarkmemorandum/1066/thumbnail.jp
