New: Censorship in the Guise of Authorship: Harmonizing Copyright and the First Amendment

Hon. M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit discusses the real and pressing tensions between copyright protection to remedy a personal harms like the invasion of privacy and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. She argues that a trumped up copyright claim cannot justify censorship in the guise of authorship.

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