Law 633: Copyright

Recommended Additional Reading

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]
• Sara K. Stadler, Incentive and Expectation in Copyright , 58 Hastings L.J.(forthcoming 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

• 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

• Jessica Litman, Sharing & Stealing, 26 Comm/Ent 1 (2004)
• Larry Lessig, FREE CULTURE (chapters 13, 14)
• Pamela Samuelson, The Constitutional Law of Intellectual Property After Eldred v. Ashcroft, 50 J. Cop. Soc’y 547 (2003)

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

• R. Anthony Reese, The Public Display Right: The Copyright Act's Neglected Solution to the Controversy Over 'RAM Copies', 2001 Illinois L. Rev. 83
• Lydia Loren, Untangling the Web of Music Copyrights, 53 Case Western Reserve Law Review 673 (2003)
• William Fisher III, PROMISES TO KEEP: TECHNOLOGY LAW AND THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT (2004) [on course reserve]
• Olufunmilayo Arewa, From J.C. Bach to Hip Hop: Musical Borrowing, Copyright and Cultural Context, 84 N. Carolian L. Rev. 547 (2006)

Chapter 6: The Different Faces of Infringement

• James Lardner, FAST FORWARD: A MACHINE AND THE COMMOTION IT CAUSED (2002) [on course reserve]
• National Research Council, THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE INFORMATION AGE (2000) [on course reserve]
• Niva Elkin-Koren, Making Technology Visible: Liability of Internet Service Providers for Peer-to-Peer Traffic, 9 NYU J. Legis & Public Policy 19 (2006)

Chapter 7: Another Limitation on Copyright — Fair Use

• Wendy J. Gordon, Fair Use as Market Failure, 82 Colum. L. Rev. 1600 (1982)
• Glynn Lunney, Fair Use and Market Failure: Sony Revisited, 82 B.U.L. Rev. 975 (2002)
• Rebecca Tushnet, Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It, 114 Yale L.J. 535 (2004)
• Joseph Liu, Copyright and Time: A Proposal, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 409 (2002)

Chapter 8: Technological Protections

• 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)
• Pamela Samuelson & Suzanne Scotchmer, The Law & Economics of Reverse Engineering, 111 Yale L. J. 1575 (2002)
• Glynn S. Lunney, The Death of Copyright: Digital Technology, Private Copying, and the DMCA, 87 Va L. Rev. (2001)
• Jessica Litman, DIGITAL COPYRIGHT (chapters 8 - 10)

Chapter 9: State Law Theories of Protection and their Limits

• Ralph S. Brown, Jr., Unification: A Cheerful Requiem for Common Law Copyright, 24 UCLA L Rev 1070 (1977) [via Hein Online]
• 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)
• Niva Elkin-Koren, What Contracts Can't Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitating a Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. (2005)

Chapter 10: The Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

• Mark A. Lemley & Eugene Volokh, Freedom of Speech and Injunctions in Intellectual Property Cases, 48 Duke L.J. 147 (1998)
• Mark A Lemley & R. Anthony Reese, Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation, 56 Stanford L. Rev. 1345 (2004)
• Neil W. Netanel, Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free Peer-to-Peer File Sharing , 17 Harv. J. L. & Tech. (2003)