Michael W. Carroll

American University Washington College of Law

Professor of Law and Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20016

United States

http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll/

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1.

Whose Music is it Anyway? How We Came to View Musical Expression as a Form of Property

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 72, 2004
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 08 Dec 2003
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Copyright, Legal History, Music, Property

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Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright

Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2007-8, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE, Peter K. Yu, ed., Vol. 1, pp. 445-61, Praeger, 2007
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Apr 2007
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Copyright, Commons, Creative Commons, Property, Relevance

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Fixing Fair Use

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 85, 2007, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2006-21
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2007
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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copyright, fair use, rules and standards, advisory opinions, free speech

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Creative Commons and the New Intermediaries

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 45, 2006, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2005-13
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2007
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Creative Commons, copyright, Semantic Web, XML, machine-readable

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The Struggle for Music Copyright

Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2005-7
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 16 Mar 2005
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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music copyright, copyright law, property rights

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Disruptive Technology and Common Law Lawmaking: A Brief Analysis of A&M Records, Inc. V. Napster, Inc.

Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 9, No. 5, 2002
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Feb 2003
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
Downloads 290 (110,446)
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Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Napster

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The Movement for Open Access Law - Symposium

Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 10, 2006, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2006-11
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2007
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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open access, copyright, legal scholarship

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One for All: The Problem of Uniformity Cost in Intellectual Property Law

American University Law Review, Vol. 55, 2006, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2005-17
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2007
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Patent, copyright, intellectual property, law and economics, property

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One Size Does Not Fit All: A Framework for Tailoring Intellectual Property Rights

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 70, No. 6, 2009 , American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-07
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 06 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 14 May 2014
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Patent, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Tailoring, Uniformity Cost, Appropriability, Information Theory

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Evaluating the Benefits of Fair Use: A Response to the PWC Report on the Costs and Benefits of 'Fair Use'

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 May 2016
Peter A. Jaszi, Michael W. Carroll, Sean Flynn, Mike Palmedo, Kimberlee G. Weatherall and Ariel Katz
American University - Washington College of Law, American University Washington College of Law, American University - Washington College of Law, American University - Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, The University of Sydney Law School and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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fair use, copyright limitations and exceptions, economics

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Patent Injunctions and the Problem of Uniformity Cost

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Vol. 13, p. 421, 2007, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2007-14
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Jun 2007
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Patent, Intellectual Property, Injunction, uniformity cost, one-size-fits-all

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Copyright’s Creative Hierarchy in the Performing Arts

14 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 797 (2012), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-25
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2012
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Copyright law, performing arts

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Pinterest and Copyright's Safe Harbors for Internet Providers

68 University of Miami Law Review, 422 (2014), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-2
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Feb 2014
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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copyright, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, safe harbor, internet providers

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A Realist Approach to Copyright Law's Formalities

28 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1511 (2013), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-34
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 Jun 2014
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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Copyright Law, formalities

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Intellectual Property and Related Rights in Climate Data

Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change (2016). , American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2016-17
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2016
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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intellectual property, research data

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Sharing Research Data and Intellectual Property Law: A Primer

PLOS Biology 13(8) (2015), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2016-18
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Apr 2016
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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intellectual property rights, research data

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Copyright and the Progress of Science: Why Text and Data Mining Is Lawful

53 UC Davis Law Review 893, 2019
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 24 Mar 2020
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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intellectual property law, text and data mining

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Why Full Open Access Matters

PLOS Biology 9(11) (2011)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 13 Apr 2016
Michael W. Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
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open access publication