Zvi S. Rosen

CIA memo from 1948 on copyright in photographs and whether the agency should be taking a license or fair use applies. Source: web.archive.org/web/20250227...

The video of this event is available here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDfO...

You probably know this, but the record of one of the major Colt patent cases is available: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/01039...

but that's not so hard to do by hand and a macro in Word might be possible to further reduce the workload (although keeping it straight from abbreviations may be a challenge). Of course either way human review is still needed.

...but asking Claude then to format it as markup and pasting the markup into Google Docs did the trick. Obviously this is a bit of a niche use but if you're looking to republish an older article this is extremely helpful. Only remaining issue is small caps weren't recognized...

Figured out a bit of a white whale for me - converting a pre-digital document to formatted DOCX with footnotes properly linked. Uploaded the Heinonline PDF, and Claude was able to OCR and properly format it pretty readily to HTML, but the resulting HTML footnotes wouldn't convert into Word or Docs

Applicability of The Universal Copyright Convention To Works in the Public Domain in Their Country of Origin : Barbara Ringer, Lewis I. Flacks : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive US Copyright Office Study

Uploaded an interesting study I haven't seen before - the Applicability of the Universal Copyright Convention to works in PD in their home country - US Copyright Office Study from 1979 or so. archive.org/details/appl...

No One Can Own the Law? The Third Circuit's Review of Whether Publishing ASTM Standards is Fair Use Join us for a webinar examining the Third Circuit’s ongoing review of a decision holding that publis...

At 4 PM eastern today I'll be participating in a webinar on codes and copyright with @emilysbremer.bsky.social and Hon. Stephen Vaden - specifically the 3rd Circuit's pending decision in ASTM v. Upcodes - join us! fedsoc.org/events/no-on...

YouTube video by Zvi S. Rosen US Copyright Office Publishing Procedures Workshop - Lecture 1- Overview

For the 50th anniversary year of the 1976 Copyright Act I've resumed uploading stuff digitized at the US Copyright Office to my YouTube page (which is mostly old copyright stuff). Here's a workshop on the publishing industry in 12 parts from 1982-3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYoK...

Thank you!

Copyright Scholar and Historian Zvi Rosen to serve as faculty director of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property Professor Zvi Rosen is recognized as a distinguished copyright researcher and historian. His early career was marked by significant contributions to IP scholarship, including papers on the history of ...

I realize although I put it on some other socials I didn't announce this here yet. Excited to be the new Faculty Director at the UNH Franklin Pierce Center for IP. law.unh.edu/blog/2026/01...

Early bird pricing for IPPI's 2026 Winter Institute goes through this coming Wednesday, January 14!
Check out the conference website for more details: blogs.uakron.edu/ualawip/even...
#IPLaw #IP #Innovation #Patent #Copyright #IPPI2026

The Copyright Office Shareware Registry is such a curio. It's still in the Copyright Office regs and compendium even though it's pretty much a defunct model afaik. Here's the reg creating it: cdn.loc.gov/copyright/hi...

P.S. See some of you in New Orleans soon!

The whole book seems interesting to copyright folks, this chapter especially.

YouTube video by Sam Reid I Tried Trademark Infringement Restaurants

Nice video about "trademark infringement" restaurants including the original Burger King in Mattoon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-l...

Nice collection of Copyright Office pamphlets of the current copyright law of the United States published 1898-2003 on @hathitrust.bsky.social : catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00391...

A Three-Michelin-Star Chicago Restaurant Sues a New York Tavern Over Its Name Smyth in Chicago is not ok with the name of Tribeca’s Smyth Tavern

Interesting TM story. ny.eater.com/news/407901/...

Memorandum in Support – #53 in Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning v. Shopify Inc. (E.D. Va., 1:21-cv-01340) – CourtListener.com Memorandum in Support re 52 MOTION to Compel Production of Documents Responsive to Shopify's First Set of Requests for Production filed by Shopify Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3...

See discussion here at 12-16: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There was a book "Who Owns Scholarly Work" looking into this a bit ago. There was also an attempt to argue that publishers lacked standing to sue over textbook copying because they lacked ownership of works by professors.

IMO there's a lot less clarity here than one might hope for.

U.S. Copyright Office Examining Division Annual Reports : United States Copyright Office : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Annual Reports of the Examining Division of the United States Copyright Office.  These are  complete for 1979-2006, at which point the Examining Division was...

Published that same year in the US Copyright Office Examining Division Annual Report as "The Shape of Copyright To Come" - archive.org/details/USCO...

YouTube video by Hudson Institute Supreme Court Weighs Liability of ISPs for Subscribers’ Copyright Infringement

I joined a Hudson Institute webinar to discuss the Supreme Court's argument in Sony v. Cox - you can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFy...

Interesting. What platform would I design such a tool for? This is where not being a coder shows :)

Is there a tool to automatically create redlines showing proposed changes in statutes from the XML of proposed bills on Congress dot gov? I tried using Claude and ChatGPT and both either failed or hallucinated (or both!)

Some new editions to my shelf! Includes treatises by Drone, Amdur, & Weil, Bowker's book Copyright: Its History & Law, a 1968 edition of Nimmer, and more. Copinger and MacGillivray treatises need a rebind.

Courthouse Steps Oral Argument: Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment In Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, the Supreme Court is set to determine wheth...

Tomorrow at 11:00 AM ET: I'm excited to be discussing the Cox v. Sony oral argument with my favorite #copyright geek @zvirosen.bsky.social at the "Courthouse Steps" webinar hosted by the Federalist Society. I hope you can join us!

Register here: fedsoc.org/events/court...

See, also, rankings of ISPs from 1997, treating ISP as a different category from portals like AOL: web.archive.org/web/19970802...

Whatever happened to AT&T's WorldNet? AT&T's reported $19 billion bid to buy America Online this week has many observers wondering: Whither WorldNet?WorldNet, the long-distance giant's own online service, launched in 1996 with the promise...

It's not true though! There were plenty of conduit ISPs in 1998 and indeed much earlier. Admittedly AOL was still the biggest game in town but for instance AT&T Worldnet had a million subscribers in 1998. Source: www.zdnet.com/article/what...

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals An App Called Napster | System Shock Ep 1

When I teach Napster and Grokster, I often encourage students to watch Bloomberg's System Shock documentary - it's available on YouTube in 3 parts here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVR...

YouTube video by The Ultimate Classical Music Guide by Dave Hurwitz Sony Tries To Copyright Haydn's Fart, and--er--Blows It

Interesting video from Dave Hurwitz about some of the challenges of copyright on YouTube - specifically automated claiming and dealing with actual permissions in classical Music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4wz...

Very cool online event this Thursday!