Fair Use & Controlled Digital Lending

Join Aaron Perzanowski, Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, in a lecture and Q&A about copyright, fair use, and the emerging method of "controlled digital lending." Copyright law is meant to encourage creativity and the advancement of cultural and scientific progress. It is vitally important to innovation, creativity, and your scholarship.

Aaron Perzanowski teaches copyright, trademark, and property law. His research on the intersection of intellectual and personal property explores the notion of ownership in a digital economy. His work on IP and social norms considers the ways in which informal governance influences creative production. He is the co-author of The End of Ownership (MIT Press 2016) and Creativity Without Law (NYU Press 2017). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, George Washington Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Minnesota Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, UCLA Law Revie¬¬w, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among others. He's been quoted in national and international media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, NPR, The Economist, Forbes, LA Times, Wired, BBC, CBC, and la Repubblica.

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