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
10
Oct
2019
Copyright in State Legal Materials – Looking Back to 1888
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear argument in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. in about two months, with petitioner’s briefs already... Read More
23
Aug
2019
Video Post: Irwin Karp on Drafting the 1976 Copyright Act
While everyone eagerly awaits the next full post here, I wanted to share a video I found of Irwin Karp, “legendary and... Read More
19
May
2019
Fifty-Five Years of Software Copyright
Greetings from INTA 2019 in Boston! It’s been a few months since a post, entirely my own fault of course, but today... Read More