syllabus

Class 1 (8/30):  Introduction

Readings:

• Problem Set 1 (We will discuss in class. You don't need to turn in the answers.)

• Chapter 1 of F.M. Scherer, Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2003).  Skip the rest of the chapter starting from the section on numbers and creative output.

• Chapter 2 of The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2000)

Class 2 (9/6):  Copyright and New Technologies

Readings:  Class 2 Readings

• White-Smith Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co., 209 U.S. 1 (1908)

• 17 U.S.C. § 115(a) (2004)

• Herbert v. Shanley, 242 U.S. 591 (1917)

• Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc., 392 U.S. 390 (1968)

• Goldstein v. California, 412 U.S. 546 (1973)

• 17 U.S.C. § 1101(a) (2004)

Note:  There will be no class on 9/13 (class moved). 

Class 3 (9/20):  A Bundle of Rights

Readings:  Class 3 Readings

• 17 U.S.C. 106 (2004)

• 17 U.S.C. 109 (2004)

• Buck v. Jewell-Lasalle Realty Co., 283 U.S. 191 (1931)

• Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken, 422 U.S. 151 (1975)

• Richard Owens, TRIPs and the Fairness in Music Arbitration: The Repercussions, 25 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 49 (2003)

• Lydia Pallas Loren, Untangling the Web of Music Copyrights, 53 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 673 (2003)

• 17 U.S.C. 101 (2004)

• 17 U.S.C. 203 (2004)

• Jessica Litman, Sharing and Stealing, 27 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 1 (2004)

• Mark A. Lemley, Dealing with Overlapping Copyrights on the Internet, 22 U. Dayton L. Rev. 547 (1997)

Class 4 (9/27):  Copyright Infringement and Digital Sampling

Due:  Problem Set 2

Readings:  Class 4 Readings

• Fred Fisher, Inc., v. Dillingham et al., 298 F. 145 (S.D.N.Y. 1924)

• Darrell v. Joe Morris Music Co., 113 F.2d 80 (2d Cir. 1940)

• Arnstein v. Porter, 154 F.2d 464 (2d Cir. 1946)

• ABKCO Music, Inc. v. Harrisongs Music, Ltd., 722 F.2d 988 (2d Cir. 1983)

• Three Boys Music Corp. v. Bolton, 212 F.3d 477 (2000)

• Selle v. Gibb, 741 F.2d 896 (7th Cir. 1984)

• Grand Upright Music Ltd. v. Warner Brothers Records, Inc., 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1991)

Class 5 (10/4):  Fair Use and Parody

Readings:  Class 5 Readings

• Berlin v. E.C. Publications, Inc., 329 F.2d 541 (2d Cir. 1964)

• Elsmere Music, Inc. v. NBC, 482 F. Supp. 741 (S.D.N.Y.), aff’d, 623 F.2d 252 (2d Cir. 1980)

• MCA, Inc., v. Wilson, 677 F.2d 180 (2d Cir. 1981)

• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994)

Note:  There will be no class on 10/11 (class moved). 

Class 6 (10/18):  Contract Drafting in the Music Industry

Due:  Recording Contract

Class 7 (10/25):  Paper Topics (Presentation and Discussion)

Due:  Paper Topic

Class 8 (11/1):  MP3 and Space Shifting

Readings:

• Sony Corp. of Am. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984)

• RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999)

• UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3.com, Inc., 92 F. Supp. 2d 349 (S.D.N.Y. 2000)

• A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001)

Class 9 (11/8):  P2P and the Copyright Wars

Readings:

• In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir. 2003)

• MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 125 S. Ct. 2764 (2005)

• Peter K. Yu, The Escalating Copyright Wars, 32 Hofstra L. Rev. 907 (2004) (Read Part I only)

• Peter K. Yu, P2P and the Future of Private Copying, 76 U. Colo. L. Rev. 653 (2005) (Read Parts I and IV only)

Class 10 (11/13):  Digital Rights Management

• Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 387 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004)

• United States v. Elcom Ltd., 203 F. Supp. 2d 1111, 1125 (N.D. Cal. 2002)

• Anticircumvention and Anti-anticircumvention (Read Parts II and III only)

Class 11 (11/15):  Modest Proposals I

Due: Modest Proposal Analysis

• Raymond Shih Ray Ku, The Creative Destruction of Copyright: Napster and the New Economics of Digital Technology, 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 263 (2002)

• Neil W. Netanel, Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, 17 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2003)

• Electronic Frontier Foundation, A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing (2004)

• Lydia Pallas Loren, Untangling the Web of Music Copyrights, 53 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 673 (2003)

• Mark A. Lemley & R. Anthony Reese, Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation, 56 Stan. L. Rev. 1345 (2004)

• Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, Charismatic Code, Social Norms, and the Emergence of Cooperation on the File-Swapping Networks, 89 Va. L. Rev. 505 (2003)

Note:  There will be no class on 11/22 (Thanksgiving Break).

Class 12 (11/29):  Modest Proposals II

Due:  (Outline or Introduction) + Bibliography

• John Borland, Napster to Give Students Music, CNET News.com (Nov. 6, 2003)

• John Borland, Colleges Explore Legal Net Music Setups, CNET News.com (Aug. 1, 2003)

• John Kelsey & Bruce Schneier, The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights, First Monday, June 7, 1999

• David Kushner, Tipping for Tunes, RollingStone.com (Mar 7, 2001)

• Evan Hansen, Simon & Schuster Offers Net-only Stephen King Novel, CNET News.com (Mar. 8, 2000)

• Sandeep Junnarkar, Horrors for Publishing Industry: King e-book Cracked, CNET News.com (Mar. 31, 2000)

• Gwendolyn Mariano, Stephen King Puts "The Plant" on Ice, CNET News.com (Nov. 28, 2000)

• Kevin Maney, Apple’s iTunes Might Not Be Only Answer to Ending Piracy, USA Today, Jan. 21, 2004, at 3B

• Rep. Howard L. Berman, The Truth About the Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act: Why Copyright Owner Self-help Must Be Part of the P2P Piracy Solution, FindLaw’s Writ: Legal Commentary (Oct. 1, 2002)

Class 13 (Week of 12/4):  Individual Conferences

Class 14 (12/6):  Paper Presentations

Due:  First Draft

Final Paper Due:  December 22, 2006

Syllabus (Fall 2005)

Syllabus (Fall 2004)