Law 633: Copyright
Recommended Additional Reading
There's lots of excellent copyright scholarship out there, and we won't have time to read or discuss any but a tiny sliver of it. If you find that you are interested in this area of law, you may want to do further reading on your own. Here are some recommendations for places to start. Depending on how things go, it is possible that I will add one or more of these items to the syllabus. Unless and until that happens, though, these are just recommendations for further reading you may want to do if a topic captures your imagination.
Chapter 1: Copyright in Context
- Benjamin Kaplan, An UNHURRIED VIEW OF COPYRIGHT (1967) [on course reserve]
- Larry Lessig, FREE CULTURE (chapters 1-10)
- William Landes & Richard Posner, An Economic Analysis of Copyright, 18 J. Legal Studies 325 (1989)
- Margaret Chon, Postmodern "Progress:" Reconsidering the Copyright and Patent Poswer, 43 DePaul L. Rev. 97 (1993) [via Hein Online]
- David McGowan, Copyright Nonconsequentialism, 69 Mo. L. Rev. (2004)
- Sara K. Stadler, Incentive and Expectation in Copyright , 58 Hastings L.J.(2007)
- Jane C. Ginsburg, Copyright and Control Over New Technologies of Dissemination, 101 Colum. L. Rev. (2001)
- Justin Hughes, The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 Georgetown LJ 287 (1988) [via Hein Online]
- Lyman Ray Patterson, COPYRIGHT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1968) [on course reserve]
- Jessica Litman, DIGITAL COPYRIGHT (chapters 1-5)
Chapter 2: Authors, Writings and Progress
- Olufunmilayo Arewa, Borrowing the Blues: Copyright and the Contexts of Robert Johnson (2008 Draft)
- Pamela Samuelson, The Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction Between Authorship and Invention, in Jane C. Ginsburg & Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STORIES (2006) [on course reserve]
- Justin Hughes, Size Matters (or Should) in Copyright Law, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 575 (2005)
- Catherine Fisk, Authors at Work: The Origin of the Work-for-Hire Doctrine, 15 Yale J. L. & Humanities 3 (2003)
- James Boyle, The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain, 66 Law and Contemporary Problems 33 (2003)
- Julie E. Cohen, Copyright, Commodification and Culture: Locating the Public Domain, in Lucie Guibault & P.Bernt Hugenholtz, THE FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN (2006)
Chapter 3: Acquiring, Keeping and Transferring Copyright
Chapter 4: Protected Works and Boundary Problems
- Lloyd Weinreb, Copyright for Functional Expression, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 1149 (1998) [via Hein Online]
- Pamela Samuelson, Randall Davis, Mitchell D. Kapor, & Jerome H. Reichman, A Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 2308 (1994) [via JSTOR]
- Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, First Monday (August, 1999)
- Rebecca Tushnet, Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law, 17 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 651 (1997)
Chapter 5: The Statutory Rights of Copyright Owners
Chapter 6: The Different Faces of Infringement
Chapter 7: Another Limitation on Copyright — Fair Use
- Paul Goldstein, Fair Use in Context, 31 Colum. J.L. & Arts 433 (2008)
- Wendy J. Gordon, Fair Use as Market Failure, 82 Colum. L. Rev. 1600 (1982)
- Jessica Litman, Billowing White Goo, 31 Colum. J.L. & Arts 587 (2008)
- Joseph Liu, Copyright and Time: A Proposal, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 409 (2002)
- Glynn Lunney, Fair Use and Market Failure: Sony Revisited, 82 B.U.L. Rev. 975 (2002)
- Pam Samuelson, Unbundling Fair Uses (10/28/08 draft)
- Rebecca Tushnet, Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It, 114 Yale L.J. 535 (2004)
Chapter 8: Technological Protections
- James Boyle, Chapter 5: The Farmers Takle: An Allegory, in The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (2008)
- Julie Cohen, A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at "Copyright Management" in Cyberspace, 28 Conn. L. Rev 981 (1996)
- Jane C. Ginsburg, From Having Copies to Experiencing Works: The Development of an Access Right in US Copyright Law, 50 J. Copyright Society 113 (2003)
- Jessica Litman, DIGITAL COPYRIGHT (chapters 8 - 10)
- Glynn S. Lunney, The Death of Copyright: Digital Technology, Private Copying, and the DMCA, 87 Va L. Rev. (2001)
- Randal Picker, Fair Use v. Fair Access, 31 Colum. J. l. & Arts (2008)
- Pamela Samuelson & Suzanne Scotchmer, The Law & Economics of Reverse Engineering, 111 Yale L. J. 1575 (2002)
Chapter 9: State Law Theories of Protection and their Limits
- James Boyle, Chapter 8 A Creative Commons, in The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (2008)
- Ralph S. Brown, Jr., Unification: A Cheerful Requiem for Common Law Copyright, 24 UCLA L Rev 1070 (1977) [via Hein Online]
- Niva Elkin-Koren, What Contracts Can't Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitating a Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. (2005)
- Wendy J. Gordon, On Owning Information: Intellectual Property and the Restitutionary Impulse, 78 Va. L. Rev. 149 (1992) [via JSTOR]
- Margaret Jane Radin, Regulation by Contract, Regulation by Machine, 160 J. Institutional & Theoretical Econ. 1 (2004)
Chapter 10: The Copyright Infringement Lawsuit