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The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy is an interdisciplinary research center run jointly out of the UNC School of Law and UNC School of Media and Journalism.  The Center serves as a forum for study and debate about the broad array of media law and policy issues facing North Carolina, the nation, and the world. The Center’s work ranges from the legal and policy issues affecting traditional media organizations to the challenges posed by new communication technologies, including social media, the Internet, and mobile technology, and the impact they are having on governments, on the economy, and on cultural and social values throughout the world.

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Prof. David Ardia, co-director
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Dr. Tori Ekstrand, co-director
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Shao Chengyuan, outreach coordinator
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University of North Carolina
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Copyright Policy As Catalyst and Barrier to Innovation and Free Expression | Interdisciplinary Lunch Series


Date/Time
Date - 3/1/19
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Location
Halls of Fame Room, UNC School of Media and Journalism


On Friday, March 1, the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy will host an interdisciplinary lunch with Amanda Reid, assistant professor in the UNC School of Media and Journalism. Dr. Reid will lead a discussion about copyright law and its effects on innovation and free expression. This lunch event is open to all UNC faculty and graduate students.

Copyright seeks to balance incentivizing a public good with providing a private interest. Copyright’s purpose to catalyze creative expression and innovation is canonical; creativity and innovation are synergetic. Copyright has a long history of regulating innovation and competing disseminators of creative works.  At its core, copyright is an innovation policy, a competition policy, and a free expression policy.

Dr. Reid argues that copyright’s incentive/access paradigm must better balance the incentives necessary for an initial creator with the needs of subsequent creators and the public. This creates an inevitable tension between a copyright holder’s right to exclude and a downstream creator’s freedom of expression. Content users often resist this control because they want the freedom to remix, mashup, and use someone else’s speech to participate in democratic culture-making. This gives rise to a policy dilemma:  over-protection threatens user-generated creativity and free expression, yet rampant piracy threatens creative industries. This talk offers a broad-minded assessment of copyright policy’s effects on innovation and free speech before offering some sensible areas for reform.

Dr. Reid earned both a Ph.D. from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and a J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law. While in law school, she was elected editor in chief of the University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy — UF’s only interdisciplinary law journal. She also earned an Intellectual Property Certificate, by focusing her elective law studies on core intellectual property courses. While in graduate school, she completed a doctoral dissertation titled, “Trademark Dilution Law: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Dilution and Brand Equity Scholarship.” She holds an M.A. degree in speech communications, and B.A. degrees in philosophy and in communication from The Florida State University. With each of her degrees, she graduated in the top of her class. After earning her law degree, she was invited to join the honorary scholastic society Order of the Coif.

Dr. Reid’s interest in intellectual property began with branding and trademark law, and she remains fascinated with symbols and semiotics. Her scholarly articles have appeared in flagship law reviews and in specialty journals from top law schools, including Yale Law & Policy Review, Nebraska Law Review, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, Hastings Communications & Entertainment Law Journal and DePaul-LCA Journal of Art and Entertainment Law & Policy. She is also a co-author of a Wolters Kluwer’s annually updated book titled, “Fundamentals of U.S. Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patent, and Trademark” and a monograph titled, “International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Intellectual Property Law.”

The March lunch discussion will be held from noon to 1:15 pm on Friday, March 1 at the UNC School of Media and Journalism in the Halls of Fame Room. Lunches and drinks will be provided for those who register here by by noon on Wed., Feb. 27.

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