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Beyond User Acceptance: A Legitimacy Framework for Potable Water Reuse in California
Authors Alliance releases guide to help authors keep their books available, co-authored by Samuelson Clinic students
Type: Clinical Project, Educational Tools Year: 2014 Today Authors Alliance releases Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available, a guide that helps authors work with publishers to revive their books and make them available to be read in the ways that they want. Samuelson Clinic students […]
Defensive Patent License Launch
Samuelson Clinic, 4/11/15
The Magnificence of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident
Author(s): Deirdre K. Mulligan Year: 2010 Abstract: Late in 2005, Sony BMG released millions of Compact Discs containing digital rights management technologies that threatened the security of its customers’ computers and the integrity of the information infrastructure more broadly. This Article aims to identify the market, technological, and legal factors that appear to have led […]
Towards a Market for Bank Safety
Author(s): Chris Jay Hoofnagle Year: 2010 Abstract: Imagine shopping for a car in 1960. Safety is important to you. How do you assess a car’s performance in surviving a crash? What tools were available then to take an informed decision? The modern consumer of financial services is in a similar position as the car shopper […]
Economic and Constitutional Influences on Copyright Law in the United States
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2000 Abstract: After U.S. accession to the Berne Convention in 1988, many scholars have expected an increasing convergence between U.S. and EU copyright law. Even though some developments in U.S. copyright law evidence a move towards the European model, this article concludes that deep differences will continue to exist between U.S. […]
Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2006 Abstract: As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect on prices depends on whether […]
The Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction Between Authorship and Invention
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2005 Abstract: This Story grows out of a study of the Supreme Court Record and other historical materials about the well-known 1880 copyright case of Baker v. Selden. Among the surprises the Story reveals are that Selden was not, as some have surmised, the author of a treatise on bookkeeping, nor […]
‘Clues’ for Determining Whether Business and Service Innovations are Unpatentable Abstract Ideas
Author(s): Year: 2010 Abstract: Jason SchultzUniversity of California, Berkeley – School of Law Pamela SamuelsonUniversity of California, Berkeley – School of Law The Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos made it clear that generalized methods of financial hedging are abstract ideas that are ineligible for patent protection. However, the Court left the framework for […]
The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2010 Abstract: An intriguing way to view the proposed settlement of the copyright litigation over the Google Book Search (GBS) Project is as a mechanism through which to achieve copyright reform that Congress has not yet and may never be willing to do. The settlement would, in effect, give Google a […]