On Tuesday night, AAP ceo Maria Pallante delivered the Copyright Society’s Donald C. Brace lecture (named for the publisher, and business partner of Alfred Harcourt) at Fordham University Law School. She spoke on “the art and innovation of exclusive rights,” declaring, “To say that divisibility is a shining feature of copyright law would be an understatement…. That exclusive rights are divisible under the law amplifies their constitutional purpose, compounds their potential, and solidifies the underlying architecture of the Copyright Act.” Appropriate to a year in which AAP publishers prevailed against an unconstitutional Maryland law trying to regulate sales of digital […]
