Copyright
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.
Drafting of this project is completed; preparation of the official text is in progress.
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.
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New York University School of Law, New York, NY
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Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN
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Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR
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University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
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University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
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ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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The Office of Judge Susan G. Braden (Ret.) LLC, Washington, DC
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George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
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Harvard University, Office for Scholarly Communication, Cambridge, MA
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Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC
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New York University School of Law, New York, NY
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Morrison Foerster, San Francisco, CA
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Charter Communications, Stamford, CT
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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
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The Walt Disney Company (Retired), Burbank, CA
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U.S. Copyright Office, Washington, DC
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New York, NY
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University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
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King & Spalding LLP, Dallas, TX
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New York, NY
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Pasadena, CA
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OpenAI, San Francisco, CA
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Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Louisville, KY
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University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
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Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY
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Martin Glenn
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, New York, NY
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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
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St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX
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Western New England University School of Law, New York, NY
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Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
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Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
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University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL
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The American Law Institute (Retired), Greenbrae, CA
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University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
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Evisort (Retired), Falmouth, ME
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Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School, Sacramento, CA
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Reed Smith LLP, Miami, FL
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Holland & Hart LLP, Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
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George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Retired), Washington, DC
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William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
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Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC
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Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC
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