syllabus

Class 1 (8/18):  Introduction

Readings:

• Problem Set 1

• 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 (8/25):  Copyright and New Technologies

Readings:

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

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

• 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)

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

• Cohen v. Paramount Pictures Corp., 845 F.2d 851 (9th Cir. 1988)

Class 3 (9/1):  A Bundle of Rights

Readings:

• 17 U.S.C. 106 (2004)

• Bobbs-Merrill Company, v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908)

• 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)

• Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, 490 U.S. 730 (1989)

• 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)

Note:  There will be no class on 9/8 (class moved to 11/15). 

Class 4 (9/15):  Copyright Infringement and Digital Sampling

Readings:

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

• Arnstein v. Edward B. Marks Music Corp., 82 F.2d 275 (2d Cir. 1936)

• 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 (9/22):  Fair Use and Parody

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)

• Fisher v. Dees, 794 F.2d 432 (9th Cir. 1986)

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

Class 6 (9/29):  Contract Drafting in the Music Industry

Due:  Problem Set 2

Class 7 (10/13):  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)

• MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., No. 03-55894, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 17471 (9th Cir. Aug. 19, 2004)

Class 8 (10/20):  P2P and DRM

Due:  Paper Topic

Readings:

We'll continue from the previous class (Napster, Grokster). Please also read the following:

• Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F.3d 429 (2d Cir. 2001)

• Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Techs., Inc., 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 18513 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 31, 2004)

• RIAA v. Verizon Internet Services, 351 F.3d 1229 (D.C. Cir. 2003)

Class 9 (10/27):  The Copyright Wars

Readings:

• 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) (Skip Part III)

Class 10 (11/3):  Modest Proposals I

Readings:

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

• Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., The Death of Copyright: Digital Technology, Private Copying, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 87 Va. L. Rev. 813 (2001)

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

• William W. Fisher, Promises to Keep ch. 6 (Stanford University Press, 2004)

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

• Daniel Gervais, Application of an Extended Collective Licensing Regime in Canada: Principles and Issues Related to Implementation (2003)

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

Class 11 (11/10):  Modest Proposals II

Readings:

• Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, Authorship Without Ownership: Reconsidering Incentives in a Digital Age, 52 DePaul L. Rev. 1121 (2003)

• 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

• 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)

• John Perry Barlow, The Economy of Ideas, Wired, Mar. 1994, at 84

• Esther Dyson, Intellectual Value, Wired, July 1995, at 136 

• Peter Eckersley, Virtual Markets for Virtual Goods: An Alternative Cooperation of Digital Copyright, 18 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 85 (2004)

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

Class 12 (11/15):  Presentations I

Due:  (Outline or Introduction) + Bibliography

Class 13 (11/17):  Presentations II

Class 14 (11/22):  Presentations III

Note:  There will be no class on 11/24 (class moved to 11/22).

First Draft Due:  December 3, 2004

Final Paper Due:  December 16, 2004