Peter Jaszi teaches domestic and international copyright law, as well as law and literature. He also directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and helped to establish the Program on Intellectual Property and Information Justice. Professor Jaszi is a frequent speaker to professional audiences in the United States and abroad. With Craig Joyce, Marshall Leaffer and Tyler Ochoa, he co-authors a standard copyright textbook, Copyright Law (Lexis, 7th ed., 2006). Alone and with Martha Woodmansee, he has written several articles on copyright history and theory; together they edited The Construction of Authorship, published by Duke University Press. In 1994, Professor Jaszi was a member of the Librarian of Congress’ Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit, and in 1995 he was an organizer of the Digital Future Coalition. He is a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and a member of the editorial board of its journal. In 2007, he received the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award, and in 2009 the Intellectual Property Section of the District of Columbia Bar honored him as the year’s Champion of Intellectual Property. Since 2005, Professor Jaszi has been working with Professor Patricia Aufderheide of the American University’s Center for Social Media on projects designed to promote the understanding of fair use by documentary filmmakers and other creators. In 2006-07, he led an interdisciplinary research team, funded by the Ford Foundation,that investigated the connections between intellectual law and the traditional arts in Indonesia. He currently serves on the board of ITVS, an important funder of documentary film projects. For the years 2009-2010, Professor Jaszi served as the Intellectual Property Scholar of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College.
Copyright
MGM v. Grokster, Brief Amici Curiae of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Internet Archive, In Opposition to the Writ of Certiorari, to the United States Supreme Court (with Laura Quilter), Laura Quilter (2004)
Amicus on behalf of the Internet Archive and the CCIA, requesting the Supreme Court of...
Fair Use
MGM v. Grokster, Brief Amici Curiae of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Internet Archive, In Opposition to the Writ of Certiorari, to the United States Supreme Court (with Laura Quilter), Laura Quilter (2004)
Amicus on behalf of the Internet Archive and the CCIA, requesting the Supreme Court of...
ISPs
MGM v. Grokster, Brief Amici Curiae of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Internet Archive, In Opposition to the Writ of Certiorari, to the United States Supreme Court (with Laura Quilter), Laura Quilter (2004)
Amicus on behalf of the Internet Archive and the CCIA, requesting the Supreme Court of...
Internet Law
MGM v. Grokster, Brief Amici Curiae of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Internet Archive, In Opposition to the Writ of Certiorari, to the United States Supreme Court (with Laura Quilter), Laura Quilter (2004)
Amicus on behalf of the Internet Archive and the CCIA, requesting the Supreme Court of...
Technology Law
MGM v. Grokster, Brief Amici Curiae of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Internet Archive, In Opposition to the Writ of Certiorari, to the United States Supreme Court (with Laura Quilter), Laura Quilter (2004)
Amicus on behalf of the Internet Archive and the CCIA, requesting the Supreme Court of...
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Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property, Books (2011)
Rules regulating access to knowledge are no longer the exclusive province of lawyers and policymakers...
Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Libraries, Copyright, Fair Use & Open Access (2010)
Academic and research libraries are key players in the generation and propagation of knowledge in...
Untold Stories in South Africa: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers (with Sean M. Flynn), PIJIP Faculty Scholarship (2010)
This report summarizes research on the perceptions of South African documentary filmmakers about copyright clearance...
Untold Stories in South Africa: Creative Consequences of the Rights-Clearing Culture for Documentary Filmmakers (with Sean Flynn), PIJIP Research Paper Series (2009)
This report summarizes research on the perceptions of South African documentary filmmakers about copyright clearance...