William F. Patry
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William F. Patry (born January 1, 1950 in Niskayuna, New York) is an American lawyer specialized on copyright law. He studied at the San Francisco State University, where he obtained a B.A. in 1974 and an M.A. in 1976, and then at the University of Houston, where he graduated with a J.D. in 1980. He was admitted to the bar in Texas in 1981, in the District of Columbia in 2000, and in New York in 2001.[1]
Patry served as a copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1990s, where he participated in the elaboration of the copyright provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.[2] Patry also worked as a policy planning advisor to the Register of Copyrights, and held a post as Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.[3] He is also the author of a 7-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law entitled Patry on Copyright, arguably superior in breadth and depth to Nimmer's Nimmer on Copyright.[4] Patry is currently Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc.
On 2008-08-01 Patry announced the termination of his blog, giving as reasons both the unwillingness of too many people to treat it as the personal blog that it was and the sad state of copyright law, which made him sound like a Cassandra in spite of what he considers to be his centrist position.[5]
In 2009 he published Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars[6], and resumed blogging in support of the book.
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[edit] Selected bibliography
Books:
- Patry, W. F.: The Fair Use Privilege in Copyright Law, Bna Books, 1985. ISBN 0871794519.
- Patry, W. F.: Copyright Law and Practice, Bna Books, 1995. ISBN 0871798549.
- Patry, W. F.: Patry on Copyright, Thomson West (Westlaw), 2007.
- Patry, W. F.: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 0195385640.
Papers:
- Patry, W. F.: The Failure of the American Copyright System: Protecting the Idle Rich, 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 907 (May 1997).
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ N.N.: Firm Profile for Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, LexisNexis/Martindale-Hubbell. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
- ^ U.S. Copyright Office: Restoration of Certain Berne and WTO Works, 1995. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
- ^ N.N.: around Campus, Cardozo LIFE, Fall 1998. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
- ^ Rubin, Leonard E.: "Concise, Complete, Fun: On Copyright Law?", Chicago Daily Law Bulletin 153(26), February 6, 2007, quoted in the Spring 2007 Newsletter of Westlaw, the online publisher of Patry's treatise. URL last accessed 2007-10-16.
- ^ http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/08/end-of-blog.html
- ^ Patry, William (2009). Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195385649. http://books.google.com/books?id=ykpgPgAACAAJ&dq=moral+panics+and+the+copyright+wars&ei=LBWSSsn4FZKWlQS80aWxBw.
[edit] External links
- Lung, G.: Book review of Patry on Copyright, in WIPO Magazine 4/2007. WIPO, 2007. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
- Copycense: The William Patry Interview; interview with William Patry, 2007. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
- The Patry Copyright Blog
- Patry Treatise Blog
- Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars Blog
[edit] Lectures
- Crafting an Effective Copyright Law Society for Computers and Law (UK) Annual Lecture 2009 (24 March 2009) (mp3)
- Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars Intellectual Property Law Society, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, NYC (12 October 2009) (mp4, mp3)
- 2009 Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Duke University (Oct 21 2009)
