Michael Madison writes and teaches about creativity and innovation as parts of a program that investigates relationships among law, cultural practice, and formal and informal institutions of social and political life. He has written extensively about foundational concepts of knowledge and progress in intellectual property law, and in copyright law in particular, as well as about the signal concept of copyright in the United States: fair use. His work on fair use has been relied on extensively by developers of an influential series of “best practices” guides to copyright and creative practice in specific practice communities. At Pitt, he is the Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Academic Director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security.