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64 DePaul L. Rev. 1045 (2014-2015)
Social Media, Sharing, and Intellectual Property Law

handle is hein.journals/deplr64 and id is 1071 raw text is: SOCIAL MEDIA, SHARING, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW THE MYTH OF THE CULTURAL JEW: CULTURE AND LAW IN THE JEWISH TRADITION. By Roberta Rosenthal Kwall. Oxford University Press, New York, 2015. xvii and 297 pages. Hard Back $34.95 Reviewed By: Leah Chan Grinvald* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................. 1046 II. LESSONS FROM THE MYTH OF THE CULTURAL JEW .... 1050 A. Power Relationships and the Law ................... 1051 1. Top-Down Lawmaking ......................... 1052 2. Bottom-Up Community ......................... 1053 3. Working Within the Legal Tradition ............ 1054 B. Growth of the Middle ............................... 1056 C. Explicit Versus Interpretative Positions .............. 1057 1. Explicit Positions ............................... 1058 2. Interpretative Positions .......................... 1059 III. SOCIAL MEDIA, SHARING, AND DRAWING PARALLELS.. 1060 A. Social Media and the Rise of the Sharing Culture ... 1061 B. The Sharing Culture of Social media is Under A ttack ............................................... 1063 C. D rawing Parallels ................................... 1066 1. Power Relationships and the Technological Environm ent .................................... 1066 2. The Middle Users and the Legal Tradition .... 1067 3. Intellectual Property Law's Explicit and Interpretative Positions .......................... 1069 IV. APPLYING THE LESSONS To STRENGTHEN USER V OICES .................................................. 1070 A. Creating the Middleists ........................... 1071 * Associate Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School. B.A., The George Washington University; J.D., New York University School of Law. For helpful comments on various itera- tions of this Commentary, I would like to thank Jessica Silbey and the participants at the Fourth Annual University of New Hampshire Intellectual Property Scholars' Workshop. In addition, I am extremely thankful for the excellent research assistance provided by Jordan Marciello. 1045

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