Gregory Keenan is a digital ethics research fellow at JFI. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and holds a B.A. in philosophy from Claremont McKenna College. Greg served as the chief legal officer for the Digital Justice Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to justice in the digital age. He researches the historical evolution and future of copyright law and the Mullane standard’s due process requirements in the digital age.

May 31, 2019

Analysis

Copyright Humanism

It's by now common wisdom that American copyright law is burdensome, excessive, and failing to promote the ideals that protection ought to.

It's by now common wisdom that American copyright law is burdensome, excessive, and failing to promote the ideals that protection ought to. Too many things, critics argue, are subject to copyright protections, and the result is an inefficient legal morass…