Copyright Law

New update

Posted on March 27, 2008
The latest update has just been shipped. If you don't get it, please let me know. Meanwhile, I am hard at work on the next update. I have to get it in to West by May 15th, so if there are criticism, comments, suggestions and the like, please send me before then.

Update on Update

Posted on May 18, 2007
I just finished the first substantive update; it will be shipped I understand in July. I have gone through the entire treatise, beginning to end, and done a true revision rather than merely plugging in new cases. Almost all chapters have new sections; chapters 2 (statutory interpretation) and 9 (pleading) have been substantially rewritten...

Webcast on Remedies

Posted on March 26, 2007
I am doing a live webcast today at 1 pm EST on the question of remedies, including H.R. 1201 (the Fair Use Act), punitive damages, laches, and other topics dealing with greenbacks. Here's the link:

Chapter 2: Statutory Interpretation

Posted on February 26, 2007
Here are some issues I am thinking about for Chapter 2, which covers statutory interpretation. The issues are: Could a majority of the Supreme Court hold for itself and coercively for the lower courts, that use of legislative (appreciating that "use" is a vague term) is off-limits in all or some circumstances, or is such a position merely the personal preference of a particular judge? If the Court has such coercive power, what is the source of that power?A friend who is a federal judge thinks that Scalia?s views on the use of legislative history are not an attempt to coerce others through stare decisis to go along...

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Treatise on Westlaw and Other News

Posted on February 20, 2007
Some may have wondered when I would start posting on the treatise. Many things have been going on. First, I spent two months re proof-reading the entire treatise. This was triggered by discovering a few rather glaring errors. For example, in chapter 5 (ownership) an unexplained glitch caused the word "stand" to be deleted in the entire chapter, as in "standing" which became "ing;" "standard," which became "ard;" "nowithstanding," which became "notwithing," etc...

The Patry Treatise Blog

Posted on January 10, 2007
In conjunction with the release today of my new treatise, I have started this blog as a forum for people to post comments on the treatise. As with The Patry Copyright Blog, you may post anonymously. The purpose of this blog is to begin to break down the one-way nature of legal treatises...