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Rereading the case in which the Supreme Court first recognized transformative fair use could help the Supreme Court resolve tension between derivative rights and transformative fair use in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith.

Process concerns, including formal registration requirements and the rule of law, are important to copyright lawyers and policymakers. Recent histories of copyright law neglect these procedural elements.

The Ninth Circuit has ruled that experts may not testify to help juries understand whether one computer program is similar to another. Ninth Circuit cases fail to properly assess software copyright violations.

A book that placed Star Trek characters in illustrations from Dr. Seuss is an unauthorized derivative work under the Copyright Act. The District Court erred in ruling that the book was a “fair use.”

In deciding whether a creator is entitled to copyright protection, courts often consider whether the creator caused the work to be produced. Copyright law should develop a more coherent theory of causation.

This article analyzes the increased use of the “hot news” doctrine by newspapers attempting to protect breaking stories.

This article evaluates the costs and benefits of granting full property rights to broadcasters’ transmission signals.

The author proposes an alternative to Professor Stadler’s solution to the inefficiencies of modern copyright law.