Symposium 2015 - Recommended Readings

"Copyright Outside the Box"

October 2, 2015

Recommended Reading

1. 17 U.S.C. § 101 – Definitions        

2. 17 U.S.C. § 102 – Subject matter of copyright: In general   

3. 17 U.S.C. § 106A – Rights of certain authors to attribution and integrity 

4. 17 U.S.C. § 201 – Ownership of copyright

5. Kelley v. Chicago Park Dist., 635 F.3d 290 (7th Cir. 2011)

6. Megan Carpenter & Steven Hetcher, Function over Form: Bringing the Fixation Requirement into the Modern Era, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 2221 (2014)

7. Zahr Said, Fixing Copyright in Characters: Literary Perspectives on a Legal Problem, 35 CARDOZO L. REV. 769 (2013)

8. Bruce Boyden, Games and Other Uncopyrightable Systems, 18 GEO. MASON L. REV. 439 (2011)         

9. Annemarie Bridy, Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author, 2012 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 5 (2012)

10. Garcia v. Google, Inc., 786 F.3d 733 (9th Cir. 2015)    

11. 16 Casa Duse, LLC v. Merkin, --- F. 3d ---, 2015 WL 3937947 (2d Cir. Jun. 29, 2015)      

12. F. Jay Dougherty, Not a Spike Lee Joint? Issues in the Authorship of Motion Pictures under U.S. Copyright Law, 49 UCLA L. REV. 225 (2001)

13. David Nimmer, Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Authorship and Originality, 38 HOUS.L.REV. 1 (2001)        

14. Yolanda M. King, The Challenges "Facing" Copyright Protection for Tattoos, 92 OR. L. REV. 129 (2013)         

15. U.S. Copyright Office, Final Regulation on the Registration of Computer Programs that Generate Typefonts, 57 Fed. Reg. 6201 (Feb. 21, 1992)

16. Brief of Amici Curiae Professors Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Justin Hughes, Peter Menell, and David Nimmer in Support of Neither Party Copyright Protection of Performances, Joint Authorship, and the Limits of Any Implied License in Garcia v. Google   

17. James Grimmelmann, Copyright for Literate Robots, IOWA L. REV. (forthcoming 2015)      

18. Christopher Buccafusco, A Theory of Copyright Authorship, VA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2016)