Charles Cronin

November 7, 2023 4:15-5:30 p.m. (PST)

The aesthetic, emotional, and economic significance of most tangible cultural artifacts is generated primarily by their creators’ application of human intelligence to materials like stone, paint, wood, etc. Digital technologies allow increasingly precise documentation and reproduction of these investments of human intelligence. Accordingly, we can – and should – place greater value on information that we can obtain from these works rather than their initial physical instantiations. 

Charles Cronin is a Visiting Scholar at George Washington University Law School where he heads the online Music Copyright Infringement Resource, now used by copyright instructors, practitioners, judges, academics, and students throughout the U.S. He has published many articles on musicological topics, on music technologies and copyright, and about works on the fringes of copyright protection. He has taught copyright as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego Law School and recently spent a year as a visiting fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He has also worked as a consultant to the International Fragrance Association in Brussels. BM, Oberlin; JD, American University; MA, PhD, Stanford; M.I.M.S. (Masters, Information Systems), Berkeley.