Nies Lecture Number
Third
Presentation Date
2000
Abstract
The scale of copyright piracy has changed, allowing creative works to be distributed globally with a click of a mouse. People's attitudes towards infringing on someone else's protected work have changed as well due to the simplicity and speed of the digital infringing process. Prof Halpern discusses how one can tailor copyright law to accommodate technological changes. He discusses how an act of infringement needs to be defined as malum in se rather than malum prohibitum in order for infringement to be taken seriously and suggests that a radically different approach to some of the fundamental principles governing copyright law is needed in order to balance attitudes concerning enforcement of digital infringement.
Recommended Citation
Halpern, Sheldon W., "Copyright Law in the Digital Age: Malum In Se and Malum Prohititum" (2000). The Honorable Helen Wilson Nies Memorial Lecture. 14.
https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/nies_lectures/14
