Assistant Professor Aaron Perzanowski teaches in the areas of copyright, trademark, and telecommunications law. His research examines the influence of law and technology on the creation and exchange of information. Prior to joining the Wayne Law faculty, he served as the Microsoft Research Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the UC Berkeley School of Law. He previously taught Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property Law for the Information Industries at the UC Berkeley School of Information and practiced law at Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco.
Articles
Copyright Exhaustion and the Personal Use Dilemma (with Jason M. Schultz), Minnesota Law Review (2012)
Copyright law struggles to provide a coherent framework for analyzing personal uses. Although there is...
Digital Exhaustion (with Jason M. Schultz), UCLA Law Review (2011)
As digital networks emerge as the dominant means of distributing copyrighted works, the first sale...
Fixing RAM Copies, Northwestern University Law Review (2010)
Scholars, litigants, and courts have debated the status of so-called “RAM copies” - instantiations of...
In Defense of Intellectual Property Anxiety: A Response to Professor Fagundes, Minnesota Law Review Headnotes (2010)
In this Response to Professor Fagundes’s Property Rhetoric and the Public Domain, Professor Perzanowski expresses...
Unbranding, Confusion & Deception, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2010)
This Article addresses the phenomenon of unbranding. Unbranding occurs when a firm chooses to discontinue...