Intellectual Property
Feb. 17, 2015
God made a farmer, then Congress made the DMCA
A few weeks ago, I found myself on a sunny strawberry farm in Santa Maria in the seat of a John Deere tractor, inspecting the computerized controls with one of my students. Why? Intellectual property.
Dan D. Nabel
Principal Counsel
Riot Games
Dan also teaches Video Game Law at USC Gould. His new book, "Video Game Law in a Nutshell," will be available in July 2018 from West Academic."
A few weeks ago, I found myself on a sunny strawberry farm in Santa Maria in the seat of a John Deere tractor, inspecting the computerized controls with one of my IP clinic students. We wanted to learn, first-hand, how copyright law was making it difficult for farmers to repair their own tractors. To do that, we needed to understand how computers - and the copyrighted software that increasingly runs them - have begun to dominate the world of modern agricultural equipment.
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