Columbia Law School Awards for Excellence in Intellectual Property Studies

Established in memory of Andrew D. Fried ’84 and awarded annually for the best student essay on a subject in the field of intellectual property and related law published in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts during the preceding year.

2024
Margalit Zimand
"Deconstructing the Blueprint for Infringement: Remedying Flawed Interpretations of the § 120(a) Exception to Architecture Copyrights."

2023
Adam Vischio
"The Case for the CCB: A Defense of the Constitutionality of the Copyright Claims Board.”

2022
Gersham Johnson
"The Last Line of Defense: Addressing Section 512(g)'s Dwindling Capacity to Protect Educational Fair Users on the Internet.”

2021
Alec Fisher
"Unspoken Criticism: Audiovisual Forms of Critique as Fair Use"

2020
Max I. Fiest
"Why a Data Disclosure Law Is (Likely) Unconstitutional"

2019
Caitlin Jokubaitis
"There and Back: Vindicating the Listener's Interests in Targeted Advertising in the Internet Information Economy"

2018
David Manella
"'Anything Goes': Regulating the Conduct of Money-Bundling Broadway Co-Producers"

2017
Trevor Reed J.D. Ph.D. '18
“Who Owns Our Ancestors Voices? Tribal Claims to Pre-72 Sound Recordings” 

2016
Neal Frederick Burstyn
“Creative Sparks: Works of Nature, Selection, and the Human Author”

Zoe Lillian Carpou
“Robots, Pirates, and the Rise of the Automated Takedown Regime: Using the DMCA to Fight Piracy and Protect End Users”

2015
Renee Gabriella Stern
“Taming the ‘Frankenstein Monster’: Copyright Claim Compatibility with the Class Action Mechanism”

2014
Nithin Kumar
"Constitutional Hazard:The California Resale Royalty Act and the Futility of State-Level Implementation of Droit de Suite Legislation"

Margaret (Meg) A. Larkin '15
"The Demise of the Copyright Act in the Digital Realm: Re-Engineering Digital Delivery Models to Circumvent Copyright Liability after Aereo"

Michael Jacob Zaken
"Fragmented Literal Similarity in the Ninth Circuit: Dealing with Fragmented Takings of Jazz and Experimental Music"

2013
Ian Scott Polonsky
“You Can’t Go Home Again: The Righthaven Cases and Copyright Trolling on the Internet”

2012
Jocelyn Virginia Hanamirian
“The Right to Remain Anonymous: Anonymous Speakers, Confidential Sources and the Public Good”

John Leo Schwab III
“Audiovisual Works and the Work for Hire Doctrine in the Internet Age”

2011
Timothy Adrian Cohan
“Ghost in the Attic: The Notice of Intention to Use and the Compuslory License in the Digital Era”

Lauren Grace Gallo
“The (Im)possibility of ‘Standard Technical Measures’ for UGC Websites”

2010
Erin Thompson
“The Relationship between Tax Deductions and the Market for Unprovenanced Antiquities”

2009
Lauren Michelle Howard
“An Uningenious Paradox: Intellectual Property Protections for Fashion Designs”

2008
Daniel Philip Gould
"Time's Up: Copyright Termination, Work For Hire and the Recording Industry"

Zahr Said Stauffer
"Po-mo Karaoke or Postcolonial Pastiche? What Fair Use Analysis Could Draw from Literary Criticism"

2007
Cason Armstrong Moore
"Tapers in a Jam: 'Trouble Ahead' or 'Trouble Behind'"

2006
Sidne L.F. Koenigsberg
"Library Records Open to Parental Scrutiny: A New Set of Internet Access Controls for Minors?"

2005
Marvin (Brad) Bedingfield
"Copyrighting Medieval Literature: Editing and Publishing the Pre-Modern Public Domain"

2004
Paul Senft Gutman
"Say What?  Blogging and Employment Law in Conflict"

Alexandra Denise Minkovich
The Successful Use of Laches in World War II-Era Art Theft Disputes:  It's Only a Matter of Time