 | Peter Jaszi is faculty director of the
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and professor of law
in the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington,
DC. He holds expertise in intellectual property and copyright law. He
was Pauline Ruvle Moore Scholar in Public Law from 1981-82; Outstanding
Faculty Scholarship Awardee in 1982; and he received the AU Faculty
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Development in 1996. He
is a member of the Selden Society (state correspondent for Washington,
D.C.). Previously he was a member of the Copyright Society of the
U.S.A. trustee, 1992-94; International Association for the Advancement
of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property; National Zoological
Park, Washington, D.C., Animal Welfare Board, 1986-present; Library of
Congress Advisory Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit
(ACCORD), 1993. He has written many chapters, articles
and monographs on copyright, intellectual property, technology and
other issues. He was editor of The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature
(with M. Woodmansee, Duke University Press, 1994) (also published as a
law journal issue, 10 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 274,
1992). He is co-author of Legal Issues in Addict Diversion (Lexington Books, 1976) and Copyright Law, Third Edition
(Matthew Bender & Co., 1994). Professor Jaszi received his A.B from
Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. |
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Keynote Address: The Future of Fair Use
Fair use is a venerable part of American copyright law, but it has acquired new importance in the last two decades, as courts have sought to head off a potential collision between persistent cultural values and increasing copyright protection. This talk will review the recent history of this important doctrine of "users' right," with a special emphasis on the rise of "transformativeness"-based fair use jurisprudence, and will include some discussion of the emergence of the fair use "best practices" movement. Contemporary critiques of fair use, and suggestions for fair use "reform" also will be addressed.
But the overall message will be clear: fair use is a valuable right that must be claimed if it is to be a real value to teachers, tech innovators, writers, musicians, publishers, librarians, bloggers, artists, filmmakers -- and all the rest of us.
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 | William Patry
is Senior Copyright Counsel at Google Inc. He previously
served as copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives,
Committee on the Judiciary, a Policy Planning Advisor to the Register
of Copyrights, a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
at Georgetown University, and in the private practice of law. He
is the most prolific scholar of copyright in history, including being
the author of an eight-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law entitled Patry on Copyright
and a separate treatise on the
fair use doctrine.
Mr. Patry earned his B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University
and his J.D. from the University of Houston. He was admitted to the bar
in Texas, the District of Columbia, and New York. |
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Keynote Address: Copyright Panics and the Copyright Wars
More on William Patry:
Ideas & Opinions When Copyright is WrongBy Kai Falkenberg, Forbes Magazine. Online November 12, 2009; Print November 30, 2009. A scholar says long copyrights stifle creativity. |