29
Mar
2020
Some Adventures in the Origins of Motion Picture Copyright
I’ve always enjoyed movies, but I’ve never been particularly a movie buff, and I haven’t been particularly knowledgeable about the origins of... Read More
19
Mar
2020
Video Post: The 1984 Congressional Copyright and Technology Symposium
We tend to assume that past policymakers, especially in the copyright arena, were ignorant of the possibilities of a technological future. But... Read More
30
Dec
2019
The Copyright in “Little Women”
“An honest publisher and a lucky author, for the copyright made her fortune, and the ‘dull book’ was the first golden egg... Read More
10
Dec
2019
An Inventory of Inventories of Federal Court Records from the WPA
As I’ve been researching lost copyright records from the District Courts (AKA pre-1870 copyright records), I’ve found that the “Inventories of Federal... Read More
25
Nov
2019
How to Research a Supreme Court Case (to Excess)
Over the past decade I’ve researched and written about the history of a fair number of U.S. Supreme Court cases, mostly in... Read More
24
Oct
2019
Mini-Post: A Brief and Notes of the Argument in Wheaton v. Peters via Justice Baldwin
I posted recently about Banks v. Manchester and Callaghan v. Myers, the two 1888 cases about copyright in judicial opinions. However, as... Read More