I'm part of this great panel on Thursday June 11 at noon Eastern on IP at the founding in celebration of America's 250th - do join us! fedsoc.org/events/what-...
In this Federalist Society America 250 series, experts analyze modern legal and policy debates throu...
Playing with coding using Claude and came up with this tool to see what changes a bill makes to the US Code: mostlyiphistory.com/wp-content/u...
Still has a lot of rough edges but curious for feedback. This doesn't use any API calls or have any backend.
Found in the John Hersey papers at Yale - a list of the subcommittee members within the CONTU Commission (New Technological Uses for Copyrighted Works) in the 1970s.
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New issue marks 100 years since first publication of Kafka's brilliant unfinished novel 'The Castle': guest editorial (Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko) and all research articles, essays, arts and book reviews now available on the website: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Such a shame. I had the privilege of taking two classes with him at Northwestern and they were an absolute highlight of my education.
I went to Paraguay and came back with Mickey.
A lot of people are remembering Gordon Wood for being a footnote to Good Will Hunting - this is a much better way to remember him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdy...
The history of IP is also the history of admin law...
Missed this when new - two competing breweries both released "public domain" Steamboat Willy themed beers. www.westword.com/food-drink/p...
My article on the history of AI & mediated authorship in copyright is published here: mckinneylaw.iu.edu/practice/law.... It builds on the work by @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social and @annemariebridy.bsky.social to give context for the development of copyright law and AI works and proposes next steps.
I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.