Symposia

Volume 25, Issue 3 (Symposium 2010)

Posted on May 10, 2011 by BTLJ under Journal, Symposia, Volume 25, 2010

Happy Birthday Statute of Anne: The Dance Between the Courts and Congress (PDF, 300 KB)
by the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown
The Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform (PDF, 437 KB)
by Pamela Samuelson and Members of The CPP
The Untold Story of the First Copyright Suit Under the Statute of Anne in 1710 (PDF, 3997 KB)
by H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui
All Change for the Digital Economy: Copyright and Business Models in the Early Eighteenth Century (PDF, 305 KB)
by Isabella Alexander
The Invention of Common Law Play Right (PDF, 448 KB)
by Jessica Litman
The Adventures of the Statute of Anne in the Land of Unlimited Possibilities: The Life of a Legal Transplant (PDF, 408 KB)
by Oren Bracha
“The Sole Right . . . Shall Return to the Authors”: Anglo-American Authors’ Reversion Rights from the Statute of Anne to Contemporary U.S. Copyright (PDF, 944 KB)
by Lionel Bently & Jane C. Ginsburg

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Symposium: Copyright @ 300

Posted on April 9, 2010 by BTLJ under Symposia

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, in conjunction with the High Tech Law Institute of Santa Clara University Law School and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, will host a two-day conference on April 9–10, 2010 to explore the past and future of copyright law. The event features an outstanding array of scholars and other experts from various disciplines.

2010 will mark the 300th anniversary of The Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright law. Enacted in 1710 by the English Parliament, the statute represented a marked departure from the Stationers Company’s pre-modern “copie-right” regime which preceded it. Among other things, the Statute of Anne articulated a rationale for a grant of protection—encouraging learned men to write books; it vested rights in authors; it allowed copyright only in newly created books; and it limited the term of copyright to fourteen years, after which the book entered the public domain (unless the author renewed his claim for another fourteen years).

The tricentennial of the Statute of Anne is a suitable occasion for looking back at the law’s influence on the history and evolution of the Anglo-American copyright tradition. It is also an opportunity to look forward—to explore how the lessons from this history might help us surmount the challenges that lie ahead for copyright law in the twenty-first century.

Volume 24, Issue 3 (Symposium 2009)

Posted on November 7, 2009 by BTLJ under Journal, Symposia, Volume 24, 2009

Symposium Issue | Security Breach Notification Six Years Later

Front Matter (PDF, 185 kB)
by BTLJ
How a Bill Becomes a Law, Really (PDF, 207 kB)
by Joseph Simitian
Government Data Breaches (PDF, 569 kB)
by A. Michael Froomkin
Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives (PDF, 517 kB)
by Sasha Romanosky and Alessandro Acquisti
Federal Security Breach Notifications: Politics and Approaches (PDF, 386 kB)
by Priscilla M. Regan
Are “Better” Security Breach Notification Laws Possible? (PDF, 436 kB)
by Jane K. Winn
Peeping (PDF, 476 kB)
by Peter. P. Swire
Privacy and the Third Hand: Lessons from the Common Law of Reasonable Expectations (PDF, 312 kB)
by Richard A. Epstein
Defending the Third-Party Doctrine: A Response to Epstein and Murphy (PDF, 273 kB)
by Orin S. Kerr
The Case Against the Case for Third-Party Doctrine: A Response to Epstein and Kerr (PDF, 322 kB)
by Erin Murphy

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Security Breach Notification Six Years Later

Posted on March 6, 2009 by BTLJ under Symposia

BTLJ sponsored a symposium entitled “Security Breach Notification Six Years Later. Lessons Learned About Identity Theft and Directions for the Future.” It was held on March 6, 2009. For more information, see the Berkeley Law page.