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Restatement of the Law,

Copyright (current project page)

Sexual Assault and Related Offenses Children and the Law Conflict of Laws Copyright (current project page) Property Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons Government Ethics Uniform Commercial Code Torts: Defamation and Privacy Torts: Remedies Torts: Miscellaneous Provisions Corporate Governance Constitutional Torts High-Volume Civil Adjudication Election Litigation The Foreign Relations Law of the United States Torts: Medical Malpractice Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence

This Restatement encompasses general copyright law. Its goal is to provide guidance to the courts in areas, including ones that have clear common-law origins, in which there is significant scope for judicial discretion.

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At the 2024 Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 5, which includes portions of Chapter 2 (Scope of Protection), Chapter 6 (Copyright Rights and Limitations), Chapter 7 (Copyright Infringement), Chapter 8 (Secondary Liability), Chapter 10 (Safe Harbors, Copyright Protection Systems, and Copyright Management Information), and Chapter 11 (Procedural Issues and Relationship to Other Bodies of Law).

At the 2023 Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 4, which contains portions of Chapter 4, Copyright Formalities; Chapter 5, Duration of Copyright; Chapter 6, Copyright Rights and Limitations; and Chapter 7, Copyright Infringement.

At the 2022 Annual Meeting, the following actions were taken on Tentative Draft No. 3:

  • A motion to amend § 40 was withdrawn.
  • A motion to delete § 41, Comment e, was withdrawn after the Reporters agreed to remove the Comment from the material for approval, pending release of the U.S. Copyright Office’s report on online publication.
  • A motion to amend § 46, as revised before the Meeting, was withdrawn after the Reporters agreed to clarify Comment a as discussed with the movant.
  • A motion to delete all the black letter in § 54 and move its content to the Comments to § 28 on ownership failed upon a vote by the membership.
  • A motion to remove § 15 from inclusion in the Boskey Motion did not pass. 

The membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 3, which includes §§ 10, 15, Comment g to § 20, §§ 27-29, 40-41, and 46-48, 50-51, 53-54, 56-57, 59, and 9.01-9.06.

The following are details of the actions taken at the 2021 Annual Meeting:

  • A motion to amend § 8 to add a new subsection (c) was accepted by the Reporters and passed by the membership.
  • A motion to amend § 8, Comments d and g, failed.
  • A motion to amend § 9 failed.
  • A motion to amend § 22 failed.
  • A motion to amend § 25 to add a new subsection (f) was accepted by the Reporters with a modification and passed by the membership. The new language reads:

(f) When the owner of copyright in a contribution to a collective work authorizes the contribution’s inclusion in the collective work, “[i]n the absence of an express transfer of the copyright or of any rights under it, the owner of copyright in the collective work is presumed to have acquired only the privilege of reproducing and distributing the contribution as part of that particular collective work, any revision of that collective work, and any later collective work in the same series.”

  • A motion to amend subsection (a) of § 25 failed.
  • Time expired before §§ 27-29 were discussed.
  • The membership voted to approve §§ 1-9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, and 20-26 of the Tentative Draft.

All draft approvals are subject to the discussion at the meeting and usual editorial prerogative.

8.5.2

Understanding the Restatement of Copyright Law (2021)

In the below video, Pierre N. Leval (2nd Circuit) discusses the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. Leval joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1993. Before that, he served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York since 1977. He serves as an Adviser for this Restatement.

Questions answered in the video include:

  • What is the goal of The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law?
  • What is the role of the project Reporter and Associate Reporters?
  • Why is ALI working on a Copyright Law Restatement?
  • Why has the Copyright Law Restatement raised concerns?
  • What is a specific example of an area where the Restatement may provide clarification?
8.5.2
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* Preliminary Drafts and Council Drafts are available only to participants and the Council. Discussion Drafts and Tentative Drafts are available to the public after the Annual Meeting.

** Once it is approved by the Membership at an Annual Meeting, a Tentative Draft or Proposed Final Draft represents the most current statement of The American Law Institute's position on the subject and may be cited in opinions or briefs until the official text is published.

*** Chapter numbers are those used in the most recent draft or in the latest projected overall table of contents and may not correspond to the chapter numbers used in earlier drafts. 

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New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Daniel J. Gervais
Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN
Lydia Pallas Loren
Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR
R. Anthony Reese
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
Molly S. Van Houweling
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
Michael M. Baylson
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Stefan Bechtold
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Susan G. Braden
The Office of Judge Susan G. Braden (Ret.) LLC, Washington, DC
Robert Brauneis
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Brandon Butler
Charlottesville, VA
Melissa J. Cha
Amazon.com Inc., Seattle, WA
Kyle Courtney
Harvard University, Office for Scholarly Communication, Cambridge, MA
Jeffrey P. Cunard
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Washington, DC
Sarang Damle
Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC
Richard Dannay
Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P. C., New York, NY
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL
Timothy B. Dyk
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, Washington, DC
Robin Cooper Feldman
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Jeanne C. Fromer
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Andrew Gass
Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law (Retired), Boston, MA
Joseph C. Gratz
Morrison Foerster, San Francisco, CA
Clifford S. Harris
Charter Communications, Stamford, CT
Beryl A. Howell
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Michele C. Kane
The Walt Disney Company (Retired), Burbank, CA
Robert Kasunic
U.S. Copyright Office, Washington, DC
Pierre N. Leval
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New York, NY
Jessica D. Litman
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Steven M. Marks
RoadNation, Kensington, MD
M. Margaret McKeown
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, San Diego, CA
Heather J. Meeker
Tech Law Partners LLP, Scotts Valley, CA
Randolph D. Moss
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Veronica S. Moyé
King & Spalding LLP, Dallas, TX
Alison Nathan
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Barrington D. Parker
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New York, NY
Gloria C. Phares
Hoffmann Marshall Strong LLP, New York, NY
Meredith Rose
Public Knowledge
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University of California, Berkeley School of Law, San Francisco, CA
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Jeffrey S. Sutton
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Columbus, OH
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Pasadena, CA
Fred von Lohmann
OpenAI, San Francisco, CA
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Nancy E. Wolff
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Howard E. Abrams
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Charles W. Adams
University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, OK
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Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Ian C. Ballon
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, East Palo Alto, CA
Jennifer S. Bard
University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH
Ann Bartow
University of New Hampshire School of Law, Concord, NH
Sanford L. Bohrer
Holland & Knight LLP (Retired), Miami, FL
Steven M. Bradford
HNI Corporation, Muscatine, IA
Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman
University of Wyoming College of Law, Laramie, WY
Dan L. Burk
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
John K. Bush
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Louisville, KY
Irene Calboli
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
John G. Cameron
Dickinson Wright PLLC, Grand Rapids, MI
Gregory A. Castanias
Jones Day, Washington, DC
Pamela Chestek
Chestek Legal, Raleigh, NC
Margaret Chon
Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA
Stephen Yee Chow
Stephen Y. Chow, PC, Boston, MA
Penelope L. Christophorou
Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP, New York, NY
Eric R. Claeys
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Wayne Dale Collins
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
John Martin Conley
University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT
Thomas F. Cotter
University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN
Karen Czapanskiy
University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Ross E. Davies
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
John Fitzgerald Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Dave Fagundes
Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA
Boris Feldman
Freshfields US LLP, Redwood City, CA
James A. Feldman
James A. Feldman, Attorney at Law, Washington, DC
Mark E. Foster
Law Offices of Mark Foster, Walnut Creek, CA
Marvin Garfinkel
Gladwyne, PA
Deborah R. Gerhardt
University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
Shubha Ghosh
Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY
Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, OH
Martin Glenn
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, New York, NY
Nicholas Goldberg
Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, San Francisco, CA
John M. Golden
University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX
Eric Goldman
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Oakland, CA
Paul A. Gowder
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Michael Greenwald
Philadelphia, PA
Charles E. Griffin
Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS
Herbert J. Hammond
Holland & Knight LLP, Dallas, TX
W. Scott Hastings
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, Dallas, TX
Stephen E. Henderson
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK
Timothy R. Holbrook
University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO
David Hricik
Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law, Macon, GA
Wesley L. Hsu
U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA
Robert H. Hu
St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX
Edwin E. Huddleson
Washington, DC
Craig Joyce
University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX
Barry G. Kaiman
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP (Retired), Indian Wells, CA
Howard I. Kalodner
Western New England University School of Law, New York, NY
Cem Kaner
Guelph, ON, Canada
David R. Keyes
Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, Austin, TX
Jeff Kichaven
Jeff Kichaven Commercial Mediation, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL
Steve Kim
U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA
Lori Krafte
Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati, OH
Hilary K. Krane
Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Ajay Krishnan
Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, San Francisco, CA
Peter B Kutner
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK
Sybil H. Landau
New York, NY
Herbert I. Lazerow
University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA
Thomas S. Leatherbury
Thomas S. Leatherbury Law, PLLC, Dallas, TX
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis School of Law, Davis, CA
Mark A. Lemley
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
Gerard J. Lewis
Philadelphia, PA
Yvette Joy Liebesman
Saint Louis University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO
Daryl Lim
Penn State Dickinson Law, Carlisle, PA
Gail A. Lione
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge
Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Glynn S. Lunney
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
Robert E. Lutz
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Michael J. Madison
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
Gerard N. Magliocca
Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, IN
Andrew D. Manitsky
Manitsky Law, PLLC, Colchester, VT
Hugh J. Marbury
Cozen O'Connor, Washington, DC
James R. Maxeiner
University of Baltimore School of Law (Retired), Bronxville, NY
Jason Mazzone
University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL
Mark McKenna
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Stephanie A. Middleton
The American Law Institute (Retired), Greenbrae, CA
Joseph Scott Miller
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
Katherine G. Minarik
Uniswap Labs, Brooklyn, NY
Margaret K. Minister
Evisort, Cambridge, MA
Kimberly J. Mueller
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, Sacramento, CA
Edward M. Mullins
Reed Smith LLP, Miami, FL
Kevin Reid Murray
Holland & Hart LLP, Salt Lake City, UT
Gary Myers
University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
Christopher M. Newman
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Miriam McIntire Nisbet
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Retired), Washington, DC
Arden J. Olson
Harrang Long P.C., Eugene, OR
Henry L. Parr
Wyche, P.A., Greenville, SC
R. Ashby Pate
Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC, Birmingham, AL
Karl-Nikolaus Peifer
University of Cologne, Institute for Media and Communications Law, Cologne, Germany
Mary Margaret Penrose
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
Jeffrey M. Pollock
Pollock Law, LLC, Furlong, PA
Jason A. Rantanen
University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA
Bernard D. Reams
St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX
Noelle M. Reed
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Houston, TX
Terrance G. Reed
Lankford & Reed PLLC, Alexandria, VA
Dan Robbins
Motion Picture Association, Inc., Calabasas, CA
W. Keith Robinson
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Jacob H. Rooksby
Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, WA
Jennifer E. Rothman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth A. Rowe
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Stephen Rubin
Law Office of Stephen Rubin, Los Angeles, CA
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA
Timothy R. Schnabel
Law Reform Institute, Mc Lean, VA
Jason M. Schultz
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Victor E. Schwartz
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Jessica Silbey
Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA
Douglas G. Smith
Alpheus LLC, Chicago, IL
Jeffrey W. Stempel
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas, NV
James Y. Stern
William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
H. Mark Stichel
RKW Law Group, Baltimore, MD
Peter E. Strand
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP (Retired), Ann Arbor, MI
Peter K. Stris
Stris & Maher LLP, Cerritos, CA
Stacie Strong
Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA
Guy Miller Struve
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired), New York, NY
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Madhavi Sunder
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Andrew W. Torrance
University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KS
Ethan V. Torrey
Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC
Michael Traynor
Cobalt LLP, Stinson Beach, CA
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University of Oregon School of Law (Retired), Eugene, OR
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Kingsfield Law Office, Bloomington, MN
Steven O. Weise
Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, CA
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U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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Boston College Law School, Newton, MA
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Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX

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