Symposium 2019 - Recommended Readings

Exploring Copyrightability and Scope of Protection

Recommended Readings

Introduction:

 U.S. Copyright Office, Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices §§ 503, 903 (3d ed. 2017).

Panel I:

  1. Shyamkrishna Balganesh, “Causing Copyright” 117 Colum. L. Rev. 1 (2017).
  2. Christopher Buccafusco, “A Theory of Copyright Authorship” 102 Va. L. Rev. 1229 (2016).
  3. Megan M. Carpenter, “If It’s Broke, Fix It:  Fixing Fixation” 39 Colum. J. L. & Arts 355 (2016).
  4. Jani McCutcheon, “Natural Causes:  When Author Meets Nature in Copyright Law and Art” 86 U. Cinn. L. Rev. 707 (2018).
  5. Kelley v. Chicago Park Dist., 2008 WL 4449886 N.D. Ill. (Sept. 29, 2008).
  6. Kelley v. Chicago Park Dist., 635 F.3d 290 (7th Cir. 2011).

Panel II: 

  1. Chris Buccafusco and Jeanne C. Fromer, “Forgetting Functionality,” 166 U. PA. L. Rev. Online 119 (2017).
  2. Jane Ginsburg, “Courts Have Twisted Themselves Into Knots: U.S. Copyright Protection for Applied Art” 40 Colum. J.L.& Arts 1 (2016).
  3. Jane Ginsburg, “The Sum is More Public Domain Than Its Parts?: US Copyright Protection for Works of Applied Art Under Star Athletica’s Imagination Test,” 166 U. PA. L. Rev. Online 83 (2017).
  4. Tyler Ochoa, “What is a Useful Article in Copyright Law after Star Athletica?,” 166 U. PA. L. Rev. Online 105 (2017).
  5. Pamela Samuelson, “Reconceptualizing Copyright's Merger Doctrine,” 63 J. Cop. Soc’y 417 (2016).
  6. George Hensher Ltd. v. Restawile Upholstery (Lancs.) Ltd. [1976] UKHL 64.
  7. Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc., 137 S.Ct. 1002 (2017).

Roundtable Discussion

Requests for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register by the following:

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