Copyright law's first-sale doctrine allows the owner of any particular lawful copy of a copyrighted work to resell, rent, lend, or give away that copy without the copyright owner's permission. The article first considers the effects the first-sale doctrine has had as part of a copyright system...

In 1998, Congress added Section 512 to the U.S. Copyright Act, creating a set of safe harbors that protect online service providers (OSPs), under certain conditions, from liability for copyright infringement that might occur in the course of specified online activities. Some commentators have...

This chapter considers how copyright law might affect the development of the future of the casebook, traditionally the principal course material in law school teaching. Part A discusses copyright’s relationship to the preparation of traditional casebooks — in particular, the fact that the...

Copyright law grants copyright owners certain exclusive rights in their works, but those rights are expressly limited by the fair use doctrine: any use of a work that qualifies as a fair use does not infringe on the work’s copyright. In 1994, in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., the Supreme...

The extent to which online service providers can be held liable for copyright infringement committed by users of their services is one of the more complicated and contentious copyright issues of our day. Courts have struggled with how to apply common-law doctrines of secondary liability to...