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Lawrence Solum on Copynorms

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Melies color Voyage dans la lune, by Georges Méliès, Public Domain.

Lawrence Solum runs the Legal Theory Blog and recently wrote a piece on “Copynorms”, the “informal social attitudes about the rightness or wrongness of duplicating material that is copyrighted.” He describes a few scenarios that might come out of the recording industry’s pending lawsuits against filetraders, and what effect (if any) that will have on Copynorms.

Posted 15 August 2003