Articles

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Blues Lives: Promise and Perils of Musical Copyright, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (2010)

The application of copyright law to music has long been fraught with complexities and continuing...

 

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Risky Business: The Credit Crisis and Failure, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (2010)

The credit crisis represents a watershed event for global financial markets and has been linked...

 

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YouTube, UGC, and Digital Music: Competing Business and Cultural Models in the Internet Age, Northwestern University Law Review (2010)

YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and other websites that contain user-generated content (UGC) have become key reference...

 

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Vultures, Hyenas, and African Debt: Private Equity and Zambia (Private Equity Symposium), Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (2009)

A 2007 U.K. court case involving Donegal, a private equity fund, and the Republic of...

 

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The Freedom to Copy: Copyright, Creation and Context, U.C. Davis Law Review (2007)

Although much separates them musically, George Harrison and Michael Bolton share a common legal fate....

 

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Is Apple Playing Fair? Navigating the iPod FairPlay DRM Controversy (with Nicola F. Sharpe), Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (2007)

On April 2, 2007, Apple Inc. and EMI Music held a joint press conference in...

 

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Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools and the Legal Information Market, Lewis & Clark Law Review (2006)

This Article considers issues of open access from the context of the broader legal information...

 

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Copyright on Catfish Row: Musical Borrowing, Porgy & Bess and Unfair Use, Rutgers Law Journal (2006)

Treatment of musical borrowing under current copyright standards is far too often inequitable. This is...

 

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Measuring and Representing the Knowledge Economy: Accounting for Economic Reality under the Intangibles Paradigm, Buffalo Law Review (2006)

Enron has become a symbol: a symbol of excess, an illustration of how a company...

 

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TRIPS and Traditional Knowledge: Local Communities, Local Knowledge, and Global Intellectual Property Frameworks (TRIPs Symposium), Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review (2006)

Intellectual property treatment of traditional or local knowledge is a major issue of contention today,...

 

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From J.C. Bach to Hip Hop: Musical Borrowing, Copyright and Cultural Context, North Carolina Law Review (2006)

Musical borrowing is a pervasive aspect of musical creation in all genres and all periods....

 

Unpublished Papers

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Trading Places: Securities Regulation, Market Crisis, and Network Risk (2009)

The rising power of traders has fundamentally transformed financial market networks and risks. Further, the...

 

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Valuable Asset or Vibrant Force? Intellectual Property and Conceptions of Culture, ExpressO (2008)

Discussions of intellectual property as property often implicitly rely upon conceptions of value that give...

 

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Culture as Property: Intellectual Property, Local Norms and Global Rights (2007)

Intellectual property frameworks today reflect an increasing emphasis on framing knowledge and culture within a...

 

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Strategic Behaviors and Competition: Intangibles, Intellectual Property and Innovation (2006)

Intangibles such as intellectual property rights are an increasingly important source of value for businesses...

 

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Piracy, Biopiracy and Borrowing: Culture, Cultural Heritage and the Globalization of Intellectual Property, ExpressO (2006)

Discussions of both “piracy” and “biopiracy” often start from questionable assumptions about the nature of...