Author(s): Paul M. Schwartz Year: 2010 Abstract: California Law Review (forthcoming 2010) Keywords: privacy, unitary concept, torts
Prosser’s Privacy and the German Right of Personality: Are Four Privacy Torts Better than One Unitary Concept?
New Challenges to Data Protection Study – Country Report: United States
Author(s): Chris Jay Hoofnagle Year: 2010 Abstract: This report is one of 11 country reports produced for the “New Challenges to Data Protection” study, commissioned by the European Commission, and […]
The Constitutional Law of Intellectual Property After Eldred v. Ashcroft
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2003 Abstract: Scholarly discourse about the constitutional law of intellectual property will not die out after the Supreme Court’s decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft, but only […]
In Search of Copyright’s Lost Ark: Interpreting the Right to Distribute in the Internet Age
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2010 Abstract: Prior to the emergence of peer-to-peer technology, the Copyright Act’s distribution right was largely dormant. Most enforcement actions were premised upon violations of […]
Demystifying Fair Use: the Gift of the Center for Social Media Statements of Best Practices
Author(s): Jennifer Urban Year: 2010 Abstract: The fair use doctrine is famous for its uncertainty. As lawyers who counsel clients making fair use of copyrighted materials, we have experienced the […]
Knowledge Accessibility and Preservation Policy for the Digital Age
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2010 Abstract: Recent advances in digital technology have created the potential to make the vast stock of recorded knowledge searchable using sophisticated tools by anyone […]
Digital Exhaustion
Author(s): Jason Schultz Year: 2010 Abstract: As digital networks emerge as the dominant means of distributing copyrighted works, the first sale doctrine is increasingly marginalized. The limitations first sale places […]
Sound Recordings, Works for Hire, and the Termination-of-Transfers Time Bomb
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2010 Abstract: In crafting the Copyright Act of 1976, Congress brokered a grand compromise between authors and publishers so as to bring about a unitary […]
Beyond Google and Evil: How Policy Makers, Journalists and Consumers Should Talk Differently About Google and Privacy
Author(s): Chris Jay Hoofnagle Year: 2010 Abstract: Google has come to symbolize the tensions between the benefits of innovative, information-dependent new services and the desire of individuals to control the […]
Academic Author Objections to the Google Book Search Settlement
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2010 Abstract: This Article explains the genesis of the Google Book Search (GBS) project and the copyright infringement lawsuit challenging it that the litigants now wish […]