24
Oct
2017
Blogiversary, Mark 1: Looking Forward
It’s hard to believe that today marks the one-year anniversary of when I first posted to this blog in earnest (I started... Read More
10
Oct
2017
The Forgotten Origins of Copyright for Photographs
It’s fairly well-known that photographers like Matthew Brady used photographs in unique and important ways during the Civil War to document the... Read More
14
Sep
2017
Mini-Post: 1947 Copyright Office Report on Editing Music
It’s been too long since I made a proper post – I’ve been busy putting together a piece I’m calling An Empirical... Read More
23
Aug
2017
Performance Rights at Common Law in 1880s San Francisco
As I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog, and will mention many more times, I currently have an article going through... Read More
25
Jul
2017
Property in Copyright – Examining The Ingersoll Copyright Bill of 1844
I’m not pushing a normative argument with this post, I just think it’s useful to understand how some of the debates over... Read More
12
Jul
2017
Patent Case Files From the Archives: New England Edition
This fall, I recommended that the Boston Public Library look into scanning the case files (pleadings, evidence, etc) of major case files... Read More