http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman The ways law rules creative endeavors and the ways law itself is a creative endeavor Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:19:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2009/10/the-eff-fights-copyright-overclaiming-by-means-of-public-shaming/ http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2009/10/the-eff-fights-copyright-overclaiming-by-means-of-public-shaming/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:48:48 +0000 pfriedman http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2009/10/the-eff-fights-copyright-overclaiming-by-means-of-public-shaming/  Read more]]> One of the problems of our legal system I’ve written about is the way its expense has conferred inordinate weight on sheer wealth. In copyright, this problem plays out in what is termed “copyright overclaiming” — the assertion of rights over content that is utterly misbegotten but not worth the expense of fighting. One means of fighting this abuse, I suppose, is public shaming, which is exactly what the Electronic Frontier Foundation is now doing with its “Takedown Hall of Shame,” a compilation of “[b]ogus copyright and trademark complaints have threatened all kinds of creative expression.”

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