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Patry is undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of cancer, and so won’t be able to tour the book’s release in person.

January 2008 2008

Patry is undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of cancer, and so won’t be able to tour the book’s release in person.

Am I Missing Something? 2008

William Patry is author of an eight-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law entitled Patry on Copyright and a separate treatise on the fair use doctrine.

Digitization 101 Jill Hurst-Wahl 2010

Mr. Patry suggests that consumers are more likely to obey laws they respect and that technology companies that want to distribute music "are happy to pay."

The Cost of Free Culture Robert Levine 2012

Ultimately, Mr. Patry seems to question the value of the market altogether, arguing that laws backing digital antipiracy "locks" on copyrighted material threaten to "change the Internet into a platform for the haves over the have-nots."

The Cost of Free Culture Robert Levine 2012

Perhaps Mr. Patry hasn't been listening, but many rappers certainly seem to like getting paid.

The Cost of Free Culture Robert Levine 2012

Mr. Patry rightly blasts the way copyright policy has been shaped by corporations rather than creators, and he takes pains to point out that "the views in this book are entirely mine, and should not be attributed to Google."

The Cost of Free Culture Robert Levine 2012

Mr. Patry also makes much of how metaphors of theft oversimplify a complex debate.

The Cost of Free Culture Robert Levine 2012

Of course, like most such critics, Mr. Patry has a day job—at a company that would stand to profit if his ideas took hold.

The Cost of Free Culture Robert Levine 2012