Proposed copyright overhaul

Jessica Litman from the University of Michigan is quoted in this Ars Technica column on streamlining copyright law.

Cleaning the barnacles from the S.S. Copyright


By Nate Anderson

Ars Technica

Bashing current copyright law is easy—just ask Jessica Litman, a professor of law at the University of Michigan. She calls current US copyright a "swollen, barnacle-encrusted collection of incomprehensible prose." Or, to change the metaphor to aging, copyright law is "old, outmoded, inflexible, and beginning to display the symptoms of multiple systems failure." (cont)