6
Jun
2018
Video Post: Waldo Moore on the History of the Copyright Office
Below is a video recorded at the U.S. Copyright Office in early 1987, at an event for staff, where Waldo Moore, who... Read More
4
Jun
2018
Of Sheep and Goats: A Condensed History of Common-Law Copyright for Sound Recordings
“Some sheep are being treated like goats and the resulting mélange can satisfy no one except those who happen to profit from... Read More
1
May
2018
Video Post: A Demonstration of The World Wide Web from Early 1994
When I was at the Copyright Office as Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence, I happened to find the video below. Andy... Read More
27
Apr
2018
Player Pianos and the Origins of Compulsory Licensing – Some Details of its Origins
The Music Modernization Act just passed the House as I’m writing this, and it seemed apropos to look at the origins of... Read More
8
Feb
2018
The Supreme Court’s Docket Books and Three Strands of 19th Century Copyright Jurisprudence
This post brings together two separate but related topics – a relatively unknown resource about the Supreme Court, and light it shines... Read More
25
Jan
2018
Opinions of the US Supreme Court – Does Word Count Correlate to Citations?
As part of a symposium on forgotten cases in intellectual property with the Syracuse Law Review, I recently wrote a short history... Read More