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Copyright in a Global Information Economy, Third Edition, explores the full range of copyright law and its relationship to technological innovations and globalization. Written with precision and clarity, this ambitious yet manageable casebook elucidates the fundamental disputes of copyright law with incisive and balanced perspective.

The distinguished author team behind Copyright in a Global Information Economy, Third Edition, presents:

• comprehensive coverage of domestic and international copyright law
  • purpose and sources of copyright law
  • requirements for obtaining copyright protection and proving infringement
  • the effects of technological developments on copyright protection and litigation
• a balanced treatment of controversial issues, such a
  • challenges on the boundaries of copyrightable subject matter
  • issues relating to third party liability
  • the evolution of different aspects of fair use
  • the interplay of contract law and copyright protection
  • the first decade of cases under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• strong, integrated coverage of international copyright law topics , including:
  • multilateral and bilateral treaties, European Union directives, and significant WTO decisions
• a wide selection of concisely edited cases
• engaging and practical examples and discussions
• photographs that facilitate and stimulate discussion of cases
• a detailed Teacher’s Manual with sample syllabi
• an author website for additional resources and edited cases from earlier editions

Updated throughout, the Third Edition provides:

• a new chapter (Chapter 8, Copyright and Contract) that examines licensing issues and the effects of the open source and creative commons movements
• expanded treatment of copyright remedies, with eBay v. MercExchange and the debate regarding large statutory damages awards
• enhanced coverage of third party liability and the copyright ramifications of social networking sites and general web 2.0 issues
• a host of recent case opinions

In response to the dramatic changes that copyright law has undergone in the past several decades, Copyright in a Global Information Economy, Third Edition, is timely and articulate. Along with an in-depth treatment of contemporary copyright issues, this sterling author team provides generous teaching support.

*A Teacher's Manual may be available for this book. Teacher's Manuals are a professional courtesy offered to professors only. Fore more information or to request a copy, please contact Aspen Publishers at 800-950-5259 or legaledu@wolterskluwer.com.

Part I: Introduction to Copyright Law

Chapter 1. Copyright in Context

Part II: The Subject Matter of Copyright Law

Chapter 2. Authors, Writings, and Progress
Chapter 3. Acquiring and Maintaining Copyright
Chapter 4. Protected Works and Boundary Problems

Part III: Copyright Scope and Enforcement

Chapter 5. The Statutory Rights of Copyright Owners
Chapter 6. The Different Faces of Infringement
Chapter 7. Another Limitation on Copyright: Fair Use
Chapter 8. Copyright and Contract
Chapter 9. Technological Protections
Chapter 10. State Law Theories of Protection, and Their Limits
Chapter 11. The Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Table of Cases
Tables of Statutes and Other Laws
Table of Authorities
Index

Julie E. Cohen

Julie E. Cohen

E-mail address: jec@law.georgetown.edu

Education
A.B., ; Harvard University
J.D., ;Harvard Law School

Background
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 Law & Business, 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 the 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.

Books
The Networked Self: ; Copyright, Privacy, and the Production of Networked Space (manuscript in progress, under contract to Yale University Press)

Articles
"Privacy, Visibility, Transparency, and Exposure," 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 181 (2008).
"Network Stories," 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 91 (2007)
"Creativity and Culture in Copyright Theory," 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1151 (2007).
"Cyberspace as/and Space," 107 Colum. L. Rev. 210 (2007).
"Pervasively Distributed Copyright Enforcement," 95 Geo. L.J. 1 (2006).
"The Place of the User in Copyright Law," 74 Fordham L. Rev. 347 (2005).
"Copyright's Public-Private Distinction," 55 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 963 (2005).
"DRM and Privacy," 18 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 575 (2003).
"Overcoming Property (Does Copyright Trump Privacy?)," 2003 U. Ill. J.L. & Tech. Pol'y 375 (2003).
"Fair Use Infrastructure for Copyright Management Systems," 15 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 41 (2001) (with Dan L. Burk).
"Privacy, Ideology, and Technology: A Response to Jeffrey Rosen," 89 Geo. L.J. 2029 (2001).
“Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry," 89 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2001) (with Mark A. Lemley).
“Copyright and the Perfect Curve,” 53 Vand. L. Rev. 1799 (2000).
“Examined Lives: Informational Privacy and the Subject as Object,” 52 Stan. L. Rev. 1373 (2000).

Lydia Pallas Loren

E-mail address: loren@lclark.edu

Education
B.A., with high distinction 1987 Univ. of Michigan
J.D., magna cum laude 1992 Univ. of Michigan Law School, Order of the Coif

Background
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 Honorable 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 of 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

E-mail address: rokediji@umn.edu

Education
LL.B., ;University of Jos.
LL.M., S.J.D., Harvard Law School

Background
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.

Books
10 Global Perspectives on Patent Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010) (with Margo Bagley & Jay Erstling)
Global Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010)
Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business, 1st ed., 2002; 2d ed., 2006; Aspen Publishers, 3d ed., 2010) (with Julie Cohen, Lydia Loren & Maureen O'Rourke)
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Articles
The Regulation of Creativity under the WIPO Internet Treaties, 77 Fordham Law Review 2379 (2009)
IP Essentialism and the Authority of the Firm, 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 274 (2008)
WIPO-WTO Relations and the Future of Global Intellectual Property Norms, 39 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 69 (2008)
The International Intellectual Property Roots of Geographical Indications, 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1329 (2007)
Africa and the Global Intellectual Property System: Beyond the Agency Model, 12 African Yearbook of International Law 207 (2004)
Back to Bilateralism? Pendulum Swings in International Intellectual Property Agreements, 1 University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal 125(2004)
The Institutions of Intellectual Property: New Trends in an Old Debate, 98 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 219 (2004)
Through the Years: The Supreme Court and the Copyright Clause, 30 William Mitchell Law Review 1633 (2004)
Balancing Acts: Antitrust for Economic Development, 48 Antitrust Bulletin 921 (2003)
Public Welfare and the Role of the WTO: Reconsidering the TRIPs Agreement, 17 Emory International Law Review 819 (2003)
The International Relations of Intellectual Property: Narratives of Developing Country Participation in the Global Intellectual Property System, 7 Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law 315 (2003)
Trading Posts in Cyberspace: Information Markets and the Construction of Proprietary Rights, 44 Boston College Law Review 545 (2003)
Givers, Takers, and Other Kinds of Users: A Fair Use Doctrine for Cyberspace, 53 Florida Law Review 107 (2001)
TRIPs Dispute Settlement and the Sources of (International) Copyright Law, 49 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 585 (2001)
Toward an International Fair Use Standard, 39 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 75 (2000)

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