Peter Charles DiCola

1300 N. Harrison St., Apt. C-304, Wilmington, DE 19806

pcdicola at umich dot edu

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pcdicola

Education

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL

J.D., magna cum laude, 2005

Executive Articles Editor, Michigan Law Review, Volume 103

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Ph.D. (Economics), expected Spring 2008

M.A. (Economics), 2003

Dissertation: Essays on Regulation of Media, Entertainment, and Telecommunications

Dissertation Committee: John DiNardo (chair), W. James Adams, Omri Ben-Shahar,

Rebecca Eisenberg, and Justin McCrary

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

A.B. (Economics), cum laude, 1998

Judicial Clerkship

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

Law Clerk to the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro, September 2007–August 2008

Statement of Research Interests

I employ an empirical, law-and-economics approach to the study of intellectual property, telecommunications, and their intersection. I am interested in how statutes, regulations, and the private institutions they shape affect economic outcomes as well as non-economic values like creativity and democratic discourse. My current work focuses on copyright law's regime for digital sampling and deregulation in the radio industry.

For a fuller description of my research agenda, please click here.

Academic Publications

"An Economic View of Legal Restrictions on Musical Borrowing and Appropriation," in Con/Texts of Invention (Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee, eds.), forthcoming, University of Chicago Press.

Note, "Choosing Between the Necessity and Public Interest Standards in FCC Review of Media Ownership Rules," Michigan Law Review 106:1 (October 2007).

"Employment and Wage Effects of Radio Consolidation," in Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics (Philip Napoli ed. 2006), Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.

Academic Work in Progress

FCC Regulation and Increased Concentration in the Radio Industry [dissertation chapter]

Sequential Musical Innovation and Sample Licensing [dissertation chapter]

Employment, Wage, and Turnover Effects of Radio Consolidation [dissertation chapter]

An Economic Model of Sampling, Cover Versions, and Musical Collage [working paper]

Creative License: Digital Sampling and the Law (with Kembrew McLeod, Jenny Toomey, and Kristin Thomson) [book manuscript under review at Duke University Press]

Policy Publications Submitted in FCC Proceedings

False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry, available at http://www.futureofmusic.org/images/FMCradiostudy06.pdf (2006).

Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians? (with Kristin Thomson), available at http://www.futureofmusic.org/images/FMCradiostudy.pdf (2002), cited in Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC, 373 F.3d 372, 423 (3d. Cir 2004).

Teaching Interests

Copyright

Telecommunications Law

Law and Economics

Antitrust

Property

Administrative Law

Regulated Industries

Teaching Experience

University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor [teaching assistant], 2001–2005

• History of Economic Thought, Fall 2002, Winter 2004, and Winter 2005
• Philosophy and Economics, Winter 2003 and Fall 2004
• Economics of Development, Fall 2003
• Business Cycles, Fall 2001

Other Employment Experience

Research Director, Future of Music Coalition, Washington, DC, June 2005–December 2006

• Conducted and coordinated research projects on telecommunications regulation, (primarily the radio industry) and copyright law (primarily digital sampling)
• Received research grants from the Rockefeller, Cummings, and MacArthur Foundations

Analyst, Mercer Management Consulting, Chicago, IL, September 1998–June 2000

• Consulted for Fortune 500 companies regarding business strategy, focusing on organizational design and statistical market research

Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

• Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship Award, University of Michigan Law School, 2005
• Presented annually to outstanding seniors in the Law School, with account taken of scholarship in legal studies, personality, character, extracurricular interests, and promise of a distinguished career
• Clarence Darrow Scholar, University of Michigan Law School, 2001–2002, 2003–2005
• Awarded to approximately fourteen members of each entering class selected by the faculty in reflection of the recipient's outstanding scholastic achievements
• Bodman-Longley Award, University of Michigan Law School, 2004
• Awarded to students elected to the editorial board of the Michigan Law Review
• Book Award [highest grade], European Union Law, Winter 2004
• Book Award [highest grade], Copyright Law, Fall 2003
• Rackham Graduate School Summer Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Michigan (with Justin McCrary and Jane Dokko), 2004
• Olin Center for Law and Economics Summer Research Grant, 2001
• Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000–2001

Presentations

• "FCC Regulation and Increased Consolidation in the Radio Industry," University of Michigan Summer Economics Seminar, May 2007
• "An Economic Model of Sampling, Cover Versions, and Musical Collage," Con/Texts of Invention Conference, Case Western Reserve University, April 2006
• "An Economic Model of Sampling, Cover Versions, and Musical Collage," Intellectual Property Law & Economics Workshop, University of Michigan, February 2006
• "The Contours of Radio Consolidation," Public Finance Workshop, University of Michigan, March 2004
• "Music Copyright for College Musicians," Guest Lecture, Music 140: History of Music, University of Michigan, March 2004
• "Employment and Wage Effects of Radio Consolidation," Media Diversity and Localism Conference, McGannon Center, Fordham University, December 2003
• "Noncommercial Radio Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996," WCBN Guest Lecture, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2003

Panel Appearances

• FCC Field Hearing on Minority Media Ownership, Detroit, MI, May 2003
• South by Southwest Music Conference, Austin, TX, March 2003
• Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Washington, DC, January 2003
• Philadelphia Music Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 2001

Professional Service

Steering Committee, Necessary Knowledge for the Public Sphere, 2005–current.

Social Science Research Council initiative to develop a "data consortium" for researchers to share and acquire data sets on media and telecommunications industries

Referee, Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2006

References

Professor Omri Ben-Shahar

University of Michigan Law School

omri at umich dot edu

Professor Rebecca Eisenberg

University of Michigan Law School

rse at umich dot edu

Professor W. James Adams

University of Michigan

Department of Economics

jimadams at umich dot edu

Professor John DiNardo

University of Michigan

Ford School of Public Policy

Department of Economics

jdinardo at umich dot edu

Professor Jessica Litman

University of Michigan Law School

jdlitman at umich dot edu

Professor William Ian Miller

University of Michigan Law School

wimiller at umich dot edu

Professor Justin McCrary

University of Michigan

Ford School of Public Policy

Department of Economics

jmccrary at umich dot edu