Writings

Writings

Scholarly Articles, Essays, and Reports
– International Trade and International Law

• The Charming Betsy Canon, American Legal Doctrine, and Global Rule of Law, 2020 Vanderbilt J of Trans. Law ___ (forthcoming, 2020)
• Globalization, Revising the Terms of Trade, and the Return of ‘History,’ 14 Ohio. S. Bus. L. J. 15 (2019)
• Foreign lis alibi pendens, Non Chinese Majority Tribunals and Other Issues of Neutrality in CIETAC Arbitrations, 13 Arbitration International 63 (Winter 1997)

Scholarly Articles , Essays, and Reports
– Internet and Information Law

• Of World Music and Sovereign States, E-Commerce and the Formation of Legal Norms, 35 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 155 (2004)
• The Internet and the Persistence of Law, 44 Boston College Law Review 359 (2003)

Scholarly Articles , Essays, and Reports
– Intellectual Property

• The respective role of judges and juries in fair use determinations, 58 Houston Law Review (2020) 
• Gorgeous Photograph, Limited Copyright in The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century  (Michelle Bogre and Naomi Wolff, eds., Francis/Routledge, forthcoming, 2020)
• Actors as Authors in American Copyright Law, 51 Connecticut Law Review 1 (2019)
• Non-Traditional Trademarks and the Dilemma of Aesthetic Functionality, in The Protection of Non-Traditional Marks: Critical Perspectives (Irene Calboli and Martin Senftleben, eds., forthcoming 2018)
• Landmark Trademarks, 52 Wake Forest Law Review 1163 (2017)
• The Limited Promise of Geographical Indications for Developing Country Farmers in Geographical Indications in the Asia-Pacific Region  (Irene Calboli and Ng Wee Loon, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Copyright and Distributive Justice (with Robert P. Merges), 92 Notre Dame Law Review, 513 (2017)
• Fair Use and Its Politics – at Home and Abroad in Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions (Ruth Okediji, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• Motion Pictures, Markets, and Copylocks, 23 George Mason Law Review 941 (2016)
• Understanding (and fixing) the right of fixation in copyright law, 62 J. Copy. Soc. Of U.S.A. 385 (2015)
• Cognitive and Aesthetic Functionality in Trademark Law, 36 Cardozo Law Review 1227 (2015)
• Traditional Knowledge, Cultural Expression, and the Siren’s Call of Property, 49 San Diego Law Review 1215 (2013)
• The Photographer’s Copyright – photograph as art, photograph as database, 25 Harvard J. on Law & Technology 339 (2012)
• A short history of ‘intellectual property’ in relation to copyright, 33 Cardozo Law Review 1293 (2012)
• Locke’s 1694 Memorandum (and More Incomplete Copyright Historiographies) [introductory essay], 27 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 555 (2010)
• Copyright and Its Rewards, Foreseen and Unforeseen, 122 Harvard Law Review Forum 81 (2009)
• Created Facts and the Flawed Ontology of Copyright, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 43 (2007)
• American Moral Rights and Fixing the Dastar Gap, 2007 Utah Law Review 659 (December 2007)
• Champagne, Feta, and Bourbon: the Spirited Debate about Geographical Indications, 58 Hastings Law Journal 299 (2006)
• Copyright and Incomplete Historiographies – of Piracy, Propertization, and Thomas Jefferson, 79 Southern California Law Review 993 (2006)
• Size Matters (or Should) in Copyright Law, 75 Fordham Law Review 575 (2005)
• On the Logic of Suing One’s Customers and the Dilemma of Infringement-Based Business Models, 23 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 723 (2005)
• Fair Use Across Time, 43 UCLA Law Review 775 (2003)
• How extra-copyright protection of databases can be constitutional, 28 U. Dayton Law Review 159 (2003)
• The Line Between Work and Framework, Text and Context, 18 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 19 (2001)
• Recoding Intellectual Property and Overlooked Audience Interest, 77 Texas Law Review 923 (1999)
• The Personality Interest of Artists and Inventors in Intellectual Property, 16 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 81 (1998)
• The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 Georgetown Law Journal 287 (1988)

Scholarly Articles, Essays, And Reports –
philosophy and political science

• A New Generation of State Tax and Expenditure Limitations [with G. Reiman], 22 Harvard Journal on Legislation 269 (1985)
• Group Speech Acts, 7 Linguistics and Philosophy 379 (1984)

Translations

• Translation Series:  Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co. Ltd v. Shanghai Yingxun Technology, Shenzhen Nanshan District People’s Court of Guangdong Province (2019)
• Translation Series: The Tea Board v. Mr. Jean-Luc Dusong, Court of Appeals of Paris, 05/20050, Decision of November 22, 2006, 28 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 431 (2010)
• Translation Series: Sabam v. S.A. Tiscali (Scarlet), District Court of Brussels, 29 June 2007, 25 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 1279 (2008)

Symposia

• The Private Coast – Understanding the new California Consumer Privacy Act (with Margot J. Kaminski, Jake Snow, and Felix Wu), Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming, 2020)
• The ALI Copyright Restatement Project: A Horse of a Different Color? (with June M. Besek, Irene Calboli, Devlin Hartline, Pierre N. Leval, Peter S. Menell, and William F. Patry), Proceedings of the 26^th Annual International IP Law and Policy Conference, Fordham Law School, (2018)
• New York Right of Publicity – Reimagining Privacy and the First Amendment in the Digital Age (with Kevin Goering, Mary LaFrance, Jennifer E. Rothman, Nathan Siegel, Nancy Wolff, and Jeremy N. Sheff), 36 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 601 (2018)
• That’s a Fine Chablis You Aren’t Drinking: The Proper Place for Geographical Indications in Trademark Law  (with Lynne Beresford, Annette Kur, Kenneth Plevan, and Susan Scafidi ), 17 Fordham Intellectual Prop., Media & Ent. L. J. 933 (2007)

Op-Eds, Popular Essays, and Interviews

• Churches, cinemas, and the politics of COVID-19, CalMatters, 12 June 2020
• Acknowledging the public role in private drug development: lessons from remdesivir (with Arti K. Rai), First Opinion, STAT, 8 May 2020
• Digital fakes show need to update publicity laws, Albany Times-Union, 26 June 2019
• Europe is right. Social media titans should pay up to use creative content, Los Angeles Times, 19 April 2019
• Is the EU About To End ‘Free’ Data?,  BrinkNews, 17 April 2019
• LACMA versus Los Angeles’ urban fabric, Los Angeles Daily News, 2 December 2017
• Trump can make ‘Buy American’ more than a slogan. Just enforce a 1980 law, USAToday, 3-4 July 2017, page 7A
• Fulfilling Trump’s promise on trade law enforcement? The Hill, 29 December 2016
• What will it take to fulfill Trump’s promise on trade law enforcement? Sacramento Bee,27 November 2016
• Why do we still buy oil from thugs? – a review of Leif Wenar’s “Blood Oil” (2016), Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 August 2016
• Dear Brits: Don’t Listen to the U.S. on “Brexit,” Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2016
• John Kasich’s fantastic run for vice president, The Hill, 23 February 2016
• Ohio Gov. John Kasich is really running for vice president, Los Angeles Daily News, 11 February 2016
• Making Copyright Policy in Washington,  The Hill, 23 January 2015
• Copyright Experts in Washington,  The Media Institute, 25 January 2015
• The Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind – and the Future of Global Copyright,  The Media Institute, 5 August 2013
• How (Dis)Respected is Copyright Law?,  The Media Institute, 13 December 2011
• Copyright, Trademark, and the Ninth Circuit’s Flirtation with “Aesthetic Functionality,? The Media Institute, 22 September 2011
• True Authors and the Work-for-Hire Doctrine – Part I, The Media Institute, 25 March 2010
• Net Neutrality and the Copyright Wildcard, The Media Institute, 2 October 2009
• Election Copyright – Campaign Ad Smackdown, The Media Institute, 20 July 2009
• Election Copyright – You Press the Button, We Do the Rest, The Media Institute, 6 May 2009
• Election Copyright – They’re Playing Our Song, The Media Institute, 14 April 2009
• Between Art and Law, The Harvard Crimson, 21 January 1985