17
Jul
2018
Video Post: A 1992 Hearing on Copyright in Legal Compilations
One interesting thing about case reporters is that even though the text of reported cases themselves been denied copyright protection by the... Read More
9
Jul
2018
Robert Fulton’s 1811 Steamboat Patent – Lost and Found
Robert Fulton is generally remembered as the inventor of the steamboat. There is some controversy over his debts to previous inventors, but... Read More
3
Jul
2018
All the Forgotten IP Cases, Where Do they All Come From…
Two years ago last month, I was reading the trial court opinion from White-Smith v. Apollo from 1905 (the player piano case),... Read More
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
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