Copyright Law, Essential Cases and Materials

Alfred C. Yen, Boston College Law School

Joseph P. Liu, Boston College Law School

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Table of Contents

Teacher's Manual

In this fourth edition of the casebook, in addition to the standard updates and edits, we have made a number of significant changes to reflect new developments in this dynamic field. Specifically:

• In Chapter Two, we substantially revised the materials on the useful article doctrine, briefly summarizing the trio of cases Kieselstein Cord v. Accessories by Pearl, Carol Barnhart v. Economy Cover Corp., and Brandir Int’l v. Cascade Pacific Lumber Co., and then inserting the Supreme Court’s opinion in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands. We also added Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org to the section on Government Works.
• In Chapter Five, we substantially revised the materials relating to the music industry by adding VMG Sasoul v. Madonna, adding information about the Music Modernization Act of 2018, and reorganizing the material on the public performance right and compulsory licensing as it relates to musical works and sound recordings. We also incorporated into this chapter the material on anticircumvention liability that formerly constituted Chapter Eight. In so doing, we reduced the coverage of the topic by removing Chamberlain Group v. Skylink Technologies and MDY Industries v. Blizzard Entertainment.
• In Chapter Six, in the discussion of fair use, we deleted New Era Publications v. Carol Publishing Group, replaced Rogers v. Koons with Blanch v. Koons, and added Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith. We also retitled the former section “Aggregative Uses” so that it is now “Transformative Uses,” and in this section we replaced Authors Guild v. Google with Kelly v. Arriba Soft and added Google v. Oracle. We also deleted the section “Interoperability,” and moved discussion of Sega v. Accolade to a note after Google v. Oracle.
• In Chapter Seven, in the section on the DMCA and ISP Liability, we replaced Viacom v. YouTube with Capitol Records v. Vimeo and EMI Christian Music Group v. MP3Tunes.
• As noted above, we moved the material in the former Chapter Eight into Chapter Five. The new Chapter Eight now contains the material on Remedies. Subsequent chapters have been renamed accordingly.

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