syllabus

Class 1 (8/28):  The Territorial Nature of Intellectual Property Rights

Discussion:  Problem Set 1

Class 2 (9/4):  The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

Readings:

• Samuel Ricketson, The Birth of the Berne Union, 11 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 9 (1986)

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Sept. 9, 1886, revised at Paris July 24, 1971, 828 U.N.T.S. 221

• Successive Revisions of the Berne Convention, excerpt from the House Report of the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, H.R. Rep. No. 609, 100th Cong. (1988)

Further Readings: 

(Note:  Further readings are provided for reference purposes and will not be discussed in class.)

• Sam Ricketson, The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, 1886-1986 (1987)

• WIPO, Guide to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Act 1971) (1978)

• Symposium, Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Berne Convention, 11 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 1 (1986)

• Symposium, Fundamentals of International Copyright: The Impact of Berne, 8 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 1 (1989)

Note:  Class was canceled on 9/11.

Class 3 (9/25):  Protection of Foreign Authors in the United States

Due:  Problem Set 2

Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, The Copyright Divide, 25 Cardozo L. Rev. 331 (2003) Read Part I only

• Barbara A. Ringer, The Role of the United States in International Copyright--Past, Present, and Future, 56 Geo. L.J. 1050 (1968)

• J. Thomas McCarthy, Intellectual Property--America's Overlooked Export, 20 U. Dayton L. Rev. 809 (1995)

Further Readings:

• Universal Copyright Convention, revised at Paris July 24, 1971, 25 U.S.T. 1341, 943 U.N.T.S. 178

• Bruce Bugbee, Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law (1967)

• Lyman Ray Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective (1968)

Note:  There will be no class on 9/17 (Eve of Rosh Hashanah; Building Closes at 4 p.m.).

Class 4 (10/5):  Moral Rights and Neighboring Rights

Due:  Paper Topic

Readings:

• Jane C. Ginsburg, A Tale of Two Copyrights: Literary Property in Revolutionary France and America, 64 Tul. L. Rev. 991 (1990)

• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Copyright and the Moral Right: Is an American Marriage Possible?, 38 Vand. L. Rev. 1 (1985)

• Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations, done Oct. 26, 1961, 496 U.N.T.S. 43 (1964)

• Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms, Oct. 28, 1971, 25 U.S.T. 309

Further Readings:

• Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Resale Right for the Benefit of the Author of an Original Work of Art, 2001 O.J. (forthcoming)

• Paul Goldstein, Copyright’s Highway: From Guttenberg to the Celestial Jukebox 165-96 (1994)

• Thomas F. Cotter, Pragmatism, Economics, and the Droit Moral, 76 N.C. L. Rev. 1 (1997)

• Neil Netanel, Alienability Restrictions and the Enhancement of Author Autonomy in United States and Continental Copyright Law, 12 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 1 (1994)

• Geri J. Yonover, The Precarious Balance: Moral Rights, Parody, and Fair Use, 14 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 1 (1994)

• Visual Artists Rights Act, 17 U.S.C. § 106A (2000)

• California Art Preservation Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 987 (West 1998)

• New York Artists' Authorship Rights Act, N.Y. Arts & Cult. Aff. Law §§ 14.51-14.59 (McKinney 1984)

Note:  There will be no classes on 10/2 (Sukkot) and 10/9 (Shemeni Atzeret and Simhat Torah).

Class 5 (10/12):  Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

Due:  Problem Set 3

Readings:

• Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Apr. 15, 1994, Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, Annex 1C, Legal Instruments—Results of the Uruguay Round vol. 31, 33 I.L.M. 1197 (1994)

• A More Detailed Overview of the TRIPS Agreement

• Marci A. Hamilton, The TRIPS Agreement: Imperialistic, Outdated, and Overprotective, 29 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 613 (1996)

• Peter K. Yu, Toward a Nonzero-sum Approach to Resolving Global Intellectual Property Disputes: What We Can Learn from Mediators, Business Strategists, and International Relations Theorists, 70 U. Cin. L. Rev. 569, pts. 1, 3 (2002)

Further Readings:

• Frederick M. Abbott, The WTO TRIPS Agreement and Global Economic Development, in Public Policy and Global Technological Integration 39 (Frederick M. Abbott & David J. Gerber eds., 1997)

• A. Jane Bradley, Intellectual Property Rights, Investment and trade in Services in the Uruguay Round: Laying the Foundation, 23 Stan. J. Int’l L. 57 (1987)

• Vincent Chiappetta, The Desirability of Agreeing to Disagree: The WTO, TRIPs, International IPR Exhaustion and a Few Other Things, 21 Mich. J. Int’l L. 333 (2000)

• Carlos M. Correa, Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO, and Development Countries: The TRIPS Agreement and Policy (2001)

• Daniel Gervais, The TRIPs Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis (1998)

• Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology (Michael B. Wallerstein et al. eds., 1993)

• Tara Kalagher Giunta & Lily H. Shang, Ownership of Information in a Global Economy, 27 Geo. Wash. J. Int’l L. & Econ. 327 (1993)

• Intellectual Property Rights: Global Consensus, Global Conflict? (R. Michael Gadbaw & Timothy J. Richards eds., 1988)

• Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets (Clarissa Long ed., 2000)

• John H. Jackson & Alan O. Sykes, Implementing the Uruguay Round (1997)

• Charles R. McManis, Intellectual Property and International Mergers and Acquisitions, 66 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1283 (1998)

• Neil Weinstock Netanel, Asserting Copyright's Democratic Principles in the Global Arena, 51 Vand. L. Rev. 217 (1998)

• Ruth L. Gana (Okediji), Has Creativity Died in the Third World? Some Implications of the Internationalization of Intellectual Property,  24 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 109 (1995)

• Ruth Okediji, Toward an International Fair Use Doctrine, 39 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 75 (2000)

• J.H. Reichman, From Free Riders to Fair Followers: Global Competition Under the TRIPS Agreement, 29 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 11 (1997)

• J.H. Reichman, Beyond the Historical Lines of Demarcation: Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights, and International Trade After the GATT’s Uruguay Round, 20 Brook. J. Int’l L. 75 (1993)

• Michael P. Ryan, Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property (1998)

• Symposium, The Inaugural Engelberg Conference on the Culture and Economic of Participation in an International Intellectual Property Regime, 29 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 1 (1997)

• Symposium, Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property (pts. 1 & 2), 22 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 223, 689 (1989)

• The Uruguay Round and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Arthur Dunkel (Jagdish Bhagwati & Mathias Hirsch eds., 1998)

Class 6 (10/16):  WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

Readings:

• Understanding the WTO—Settling Disputes

• The Panel Process: A Flowchart

• Fairness in Music Licensing Act, 17 U.S.C. § 110(5) (2000)

• United States - Section 110(5) of US Copyright Act - Report of the Panel, WT/DS160/R, June 15, 2000 (Part 1 | Part 2)

• Laurence R. Helfer, World Music on a U.S. Stage: A Berne / TRIPS and Economic Analysis of the Fairness in Music Licensing Act, 80 B.U. L. Rev. 93 (2000)

• News Update: EU and US Agree on Procedures for Exploring Compensation in the Copyright Dispute (25 July 2001)

Further Readings:

• Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes, Dec. 15, 1993, 33 I.L.M. 112 (1994)

• Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Andreas F. Lowenfeld, Two Achievements of the Uruguay Round: Putting TRIPS and Dispute Settlement Together, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 275 (1997)

• Gail E. Evans, Lawmaking Under the Trade Constitution: A Study in Legislating by the World Trade Organization (2000)

• Paul Edward Geller, Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace: Impact of TRIPS Dispute Settlement, 29 Int'l Law. 99 (1995)

• John H. Jackson, The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations (2000)

• John O. McGinnis & Mark L. Movesian, The World Trade Constitution, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 511 (2000)

• Neil W. Netanel, The Next Round: The Impact of the WIPO Copyright Treaty on TRIPS Dispute Settlement, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 441 (1997)

• David Palmeter & Petros C. Mavroidis, Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization: Practice and Procedure (1999)

• Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, The GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System : International Law, International Organizations, and Dispute (1997)

• Symposium, Compliance with the TRIPs Agreement, 29 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 363 (1996)

• Symposium, The Decline of Nations State and Its Effects on Constitutional and International Economic Law, 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 903 (1996)

• Friedl Weiss, Improving WTO Dispute Settlement Procedures: Issues and Lessons from the Practice of Other International Courts and Tribunals (2000)

Class 7 (10/23):  Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Foreign Countries: The Case of China

Due:  Outline / Introduction + Bibliography (2 page)

Readings:

• Office of USTR, 2001 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: People's Republic of China 55-58 (2001)

• William P. Alford, How Theory Does—and Does Not—Matter: American Approaches to Intellectual Property Law in East Asia, 13 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 8 (1994)

• Peter K. Yu, From Pirates to Partners: Protecting Intellectual Property in China in the Twenty-first Century, 50 Am. U. L. Rev. 131, pt. 1 (2000)

• Peter K. Yu, Piracy, Prejudice, and Perspectives: An Attempt to Use Shakespeare to Reconfigure the U.S-China Intellectual Property Debate, 19 B.U. Int’l L.J. 1, pt. 3 (2001) ("Differences Between China and the West") (Draft available online)

Further Readings:

• William P. Alford, To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (1995)

• Albert H.Y. Chen, An Introduction to the Legal System of the People’s Republic of China (1998)

• Chinese Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Mark A. Cohen et al. eds., 1999)

• Peter Howard Corne, Foreign Investment in China: The Administrative Legal System (1997)

• Peter Feng, Intellectual Property in China (1997)

• Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in China (Mary L. Riley ed., 1997)

• Symposium, Intellectual Property in East Asia, 13 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 1 (1994)

• William P. Alford, Making the World Safe for What? Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Foreign Economic Policy in the Post-European Cold War World, 29 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 135 (1997)

• Jeffrey W. Berkman, Intellectual Property Rights in the P.R.C.: Impediments to Protection and the Need for the Rule of Law, 15 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 1 (1996)

• Glenn R. Butterton, Pirates, Dragons and U.S. Intellectual Property Rights in China: Problems and Prospects of Chinese Enforcement, 38 Ariz. L. Rev. 1081 (1996)

• Patrick H. Hu, "Mickey Mouse" in China: Legal and Cultural Implications in Protecting U.S. Copyrights, 14 B.U. Int’l L.J. 81 (1996)

• Susan Tiefenbrun, Piracy of Intellectual Property in China and the Former Soviet Union and Its Effects upon International Trade: A Comparison, 46 Buff. L. Rev. 1 (1998)

Class 8 (10/30):  Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the European Union

Due:  Problem Set 4

Readings:

• Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the Legal Protection of Databases, 1996 O.J. (L 77) 20

• J.H. Reichman & Pamela Samuelson, Intellectual Property Rights in Data?, 50 Vand. L. Rev. 51 (1997)

• Peter K. Yu, Evolving Protection of Databases, Gigalaw.com (Dec. 2000)

• Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Harmonisation of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society (June 2001)

• Peter K. Yu, An Overview of the EU Information Society Directive, Gigalaw.com (Nov. 2001)

• P.B. Hugenholtz, Why the Copyright Directive Is Unimportant, and Possibly Invalid, 11 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 499 (2000)

Further Readings:

• Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)

• Yochai Benkler, Constitutional Bounds of Database Protection: The Role of Judicial Review in the Creation and Definition of Private Rights in Information, 15 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 535 (2000)

• Jan Corbet, The Law of the EEC and Intellectual Property, 13 J.L. & Com. 327 (1994)

• Jane C. Ginsburg, Copyright, Common Law, and Sui Generis Protection of Databases in the United States and Abroad, 66 U. Cin. L. Rev. 151 (1997)

• Marci A. Hamilton, A Response to Professor Benkler, 15 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 605 (2000)

• Malla Pollack, The Right to Know?: Delimiting Database Protection at the Juncture of the Commerce Clause, the Intellectual Property Clause, and the First Amendment, 17 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 47 (1999)

• J.H. Reichman & Paul F. Uhlir, Database Protection at the Crossroads: Recent Developments and Their Impact on Science and Technology, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 793 (1999)

Class 9 (11/6):  Conflict-of-Laws and Choice-of-Law Issues in International Copyright

Readings:

• Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, 153 F.3d 82 (2d Cir. 1998)

• Subafilms, Ltd. v. MGM-Pathe Communications Co., 24 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 1994) (en banc)

• Boosey & Hawkes Music Pubs. v. The Walt Disney Co. 145 F.3d 481 (2d Cir. 1998)

• Paul Edward Geller, From Patchwork to Network: Strategies for International Intellectual Property in Flux, 9 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 69 (1998)

• Peter K. Yu, Conflict of Laws Issues in International Copyright Cases, Gigalaw.com (Apr. 2001)

Further Readings:

• Bridgeman Art Library Ltd. v. Corel Corp., 25 F. Supp. 2d 421 (S.D.N.Y. 1998), aff'd on reconsideration, 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999)

• Eugen Ulmer, Intellectual Property Rights and the Conflict of Laws (1978)

• Graeme W. Austin, Domestic Laws and Foreign Rights: Choice of Law in Transnational Copyright Infringement Litigation, 23 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 1 (1999)

• Graeme W. Austin, Social Policy Choices and Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace, 79 Or. L. Rev. 575 (2000)

• Curtis A. Bradley, Territorial Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Globalism, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 505 (1997)

• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, International Intellectual Property Litigation: A Vehicle for Resurgent Comparativist Thought, 49 Am. J. Comp. L. 429 (2001)

• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, A New Copyright Order: Why National Courts Should Create Global Norms, 149 U. Penn. L. Rev. 469 (2000)

• Paul Edward Geller, Harmonizing Copyright-Contract Conflicts Analyses, 25 Copyright 49 (1989)

• Jane C. Ginsburg: Copyright Without Borders? Choice of Forum and Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace, 15 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 153 (1997)

• Jane C. Ginsburg, Extraterritoriality and Multiterritoriality in Copyright Infringement, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 587 (1997)

• David R. Johnson & David G. Post, Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1367 (1996)

• William Patry, Choice of Law and International Copyright, 48 Am. J. Comp. L. 383 (2000)

Class 10 (11/13): Cardozo/WIPO International Copyright Seminar — "WIPO Internet Treaties and Digital Agenda"

Readings:

• Pamela Samuelson, The U.S. Digital Agenda at WIPO, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 369 (1997)

• WIPO Copyright Treaty, adopted Dec. 20, 1996, WIPO Doc. CRNR/DC/94 (Dec. 23, 1996)

• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, adopted Dec. 20, 1996, WIPO Doc. CRNR/DC/95 (Dec. 23, 1996)

Further Readings:

• Mihály Ficsor, Copyright for the Digital Era: The WIPO "Internet" Treaties, 21 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 197 (1997)

• Neil W. Netanel, The Next Round: The Impact of the WIPO Copyright Treaty on TRIPS Dispute Settlement, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 441 (1997) 

• Jörg Reinbothe et al., The New WIPO Treaties: A First Résumé, 19 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 171 (1997)

Class 11 (11/20): The Future of International Copyright

Due:  First Draft

Readings:

• Shira Perlmutter, Future Directions in International Copyright, 16 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 369 (1998)

• Jane C. Ginsburg, International Copyright: From a "Bundle" of National Copyright Laws to a Supranational Code?, 47 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 265 (2000)

• J.H. Reichman, The TRIPS Agreement Comes of Age: Conflict or Cooperation with the Developing Countries, 32 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 441 (2000)

• The Bellagio Declaration

Further Readings:

• WIPO Report on Fact-finding Missions on Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge (revised)

• Frederick M. Abbott, TRIPS in Seattle: The Not-so-surprising Failure and the Future of the TRIPS Agenda, 18 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 165 (2000)

• Frederick M. Abbott, The Future of the Multilateral Trading System in the Context of TRIPS, 20 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 661 (1997)

• J.H. Reichman & David Lange, Bargaining Around the TRIPS Agreement: The Case for Ongoing Public-Private Initiatives to Facilitate Worldwide Intellectual Property Transactions, 9 Duke J. Comp. & Int’l L. 11 (1998)

• Peter K. Yu, Three Stories of Copyright Law in Transition: 19th-Century America, China, and Napster pt. IV (unpublished manuscript)

Class 12 (11/27): Student Presentations (5 minutes each)

Class 13 (12/4): Student Presentations (5 minutes each)

Final Paper Due:  December 10, 2001