Comments on: Lost Classics of Intellectual Property Law: 2 of 4 (Copyright)

By: Robert Brauneis

Robert Brauneis — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:23:17 +0000

Thanks, Mike, this is a very cool idea. To the copyright list, off the top of my head I’d add John F. Whicher, The Creative Arts & the Judicial Process (1965), a collection of five essays, or perhaps separately “The Ghost of Donaldson v. Beckett,” one of those essays, originally published in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.

By: Bruce Boyden

Bruce Boyden — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:20:47 +0000

I was looking forward to this. I haven’t even heard of the Nimmer 1968 and 1975 articles — I’ll have to check those out. The early battles over photocopying are full of interesting what-ifs. I highly recommend Paul Goldstein’s very entertaining recounting of the Williams & Wilkins litigation in Chapter 3 of Copyright’s Highway for anyone interested.

By: greglas

greglas — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:02:33 +0000

Thanks, Mike. I will not admit to the number of these I haven’t read yet!

By: Frank Pasquale

Frank Pasquale — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:26:55 +0000

Wonderful series, Mike.

By: Mike Madison

Mike Madison — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:24:43 +0000

Sorry to disappoint. The lists are addressed to IP scholars, primarily law professors, who have the tools to look these up and read and assess them (and read and assess criticism of them). Perhaps someone else can put together an annotated bibliography for the interested nonspecialist.

By: Brady

Brady — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:21:23 +0000

I was really expecting at least an introduction too each work, or at least a summary of philosophy; or is this some strange, didactic loop of fair use?