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The Mind as the New Battleground for Individual Rights

by: Richard M. Marsh, Jr., Associate Editor, MTTLRFrom its beginnings, this country has created laws designed to protect the individual. The U.S. Constitution itself was amended to include provisions guaranteeing certain basic individual freedoms. Over time, new laws...

The Promise of Electronic Wills

by: Keven DuComb, Associate Editor, MTTLRCurrently only one state, Nevada, has a statutory provision allowing for electronic wills.1 Nevada was probably a little excessive in requiring at least one “authentication characteristic”–which is essentially...

Copyright Reform Part 2

by: Professor Jessica LitmanProfessor of Law, University of Michigan Law SchoolIn part 1, I explained some of the appeal of seeking to begin a copyright reform process by agreeing on a set of copyright principles to guide lawmakers in their drafting. In the intensely...

Copyright Reform Part 1

by: Professor Jessica LitmanProfessor of Law, University of Michigan Law SchoolIf you hang out among copyright lawyers, you’ll notice widespread agreement that the current copyright statute, enacted more than 30 years ago in 1976 and amended piecemeal in the years...