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Copyright in a Global Information Economy, Fifth Edition

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  • Julie E. Cohen
  • Lydia Pallas Loren
  • Ruth L. Okediji
  • Maureen A. O'Rourke
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Book length
1040 pages
Publication Date
2019-11-15
Edition
Fifth Edition
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Copyright in a Global Information Economy, Fifth Edition provides both comprehensive topic coverage and integrated treatment of doctrinal, theoretical, international, and policy questions. It seamlessly facilitates a variety of teaching styles and preferences ranging from the more theoretical to the more practice-oriented. Each section includes practice exercises that enable students to apply what they have learned and to practice skills relating to advocacy, drafting, and client counseling.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • Updated and streamlined introductory materials on copyright’s context and justifications
  • Revised coverage of doctrines relating to authorship and copying in fact to emphasize problems that arise in organizational settings
  • Coverage of the Music Modernization Act of 2018 and its implications for the specialized system of music copyright rules
  • New case law on the extent of online service providers’ duty to maintain and implement procedures for terminating accounts of repeat infringers
  • Coverage of the European Union’s Digital Single Market directive and its implications for online service provider obligations to copyright holders
  • Revised coverage of materials relating to termination of transfers to reflect current controversies

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Integrated treatment of doctrinal, theoretical, international, and policy questions
  • Concise notes and questions that highlight the central problems in each topic area
  • Multiple practice exercises in every chapter designed to enable both student review and practice-oriented teaching
  • Integrated treatment of rules and considerations relating to copyright due diligence, licensing, and enforcement
  • Comparative materials that situate the U.S. copyright regime in its global context
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About the authors
Julie E. Cohen
Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology
Georgetown University Law Center

Julie E. Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and privacy law, with particular focus on copyright and on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights in the networked information society. She is a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Publishing, 2d ed. 2006), and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge.

From 1995 to 1999, Professor Cohen taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. From 1992 to 1995, she practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. Professor Cohen received her A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is a former law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Lydia Pallas Loren
Robert E. Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics
Lewis and Clark Law School

Professor Loren's areas of expertise include intellectual property generally and copyright law in particular. The third edition of her popular casebook Copyright in a Global Information Economy (2010, co-authored) was recently published by Aspen Publishing and is widely adopted at law schools across the nation. Her casebook Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials, co-authored with Lewis & Clark Professor Joseph S. Miller, is available digitally from Semaphore Press. She has published widely in law reviews, including the Washington University Law Quarterly, George Mason Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law on topics including creative commons licensing, music copyrights in the age of the internet, copyright misuse through contract behavior, criminal copyright infringement, the proper scope of the derivative work right in the digital age, and economic analysis as it relates to the copyright doctrine of fair use. Loren's forthcoming article in the Florida Law Review explores provisions in the Copyright Act that grant authors and their families the right to terminate copyright assignments and licenses regardless of what those contracts say.

After graduation from law school, Professor Loren clerked for the a Ralph B. Guy, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. She then joined the law firm of Bodman, Longley & Dahling in Detroit, where she was involved in all aspects of intellectual property protection. Her practice included copyright and trademark counseling, application, prosecution, licensing, and enforcement litigation. During the 2006-2007 academic year, Professor Loren served as the first woman dean of Lewis & Clark Law School. In 2008, Professor Loren was named Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar in recognition of her exemplary teaching and scholarship in Intellectual Property law.

Ruth L. Okediji
William L. Prosser Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School

Professor Ruth Okediji is one of the leading authorities in the United States on International Intellectual Property Law. After visiting at the University of Minnesota in 2001, Professor Okediji joined the Minnesota faculty in the 2002-2003 academic year. She served on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Law from 1994 to 2002, where she held the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship. Professor Okediji's scholarship focuses primarily on international intellectual property issues with an emphasis on the relationship between multilateral trade law and intellectual property policy. Her work addresses the relationship between developing and developed countries in the international intellectual property system, including economic analysis of the bargaining strategies that facilitate harmonization of intellectual property rights.

In addition to intellectual property, Professor Okediji has taught contracts, employment law, and international trade. She has earned numerous teaching awards and citations for scholarship and service to the community. From 1999-2000, Professor Okediji chaired the University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate. In 2002, Governor Frank Keating appointed her to the Oklahoma Public Employee Relations Board. She is the immediate past-Chair of the AALS Section of Law and Computers, and Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Intellectual Property.

Professor Okediji received her LL.B. in 1989 from the University of Jos, and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School in 1991 and 1996, respectively. She is a member of the New York Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Order of the Coif, and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inns of Court.
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2019-11-15
Copyright Year
2020
Pages
1040
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543813623
Looseleaf
9781543813630
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9781543849769
Subject
Copyright Law
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