Law 874: Seminar in Advanced Copyright Law Topics

 

Assignment for September 8: Digital First Sale

 

1. Review §§ 106, 109 & 117, Bobbs-Merrill v. Strauss, 210 US 339 (1908), and Capitol Records v. Redigi, 934 F. Supp. 2d 640 (SDNY 2013)
   • (You can find the Bobbs Merrill opinion either here via Google Scholar or at page 354 of the Cohen casebook, and the Redigi opinion either here via Google Scholar or at page 356 of the Cohen casebook.)
2. Read the Executive Summary of the US Copyright Office's DMCA Section 104 Report: http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_executive.html
   • (An easier-to-read pdf version of the full Report is here; the Executive Summary is at pages v to xxxii.)
3. Read Aaron Perzanowski & Jason Schultz, Reconciling Intellectual and Personal Property, 90 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1211 (2015), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399983
   • (another copy is here.)
4. Read pages 35-69 of the US Department of Commerce's 2016 White Paper Report on Remixes, First Sale and Statutory Damages, http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/copyrightwhitepaper.pdf
   • (another copy is here.)

Upload a short (250-300 word) reaction paper to Canvas by 3:00 pm on Tuesday, September 6.