http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/taxonomy/term/616/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5508 <p><a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000102----000-.html">Section 102 of the Copyright Act</a> has been receiving quite some attention in legal commentary recently. Professor Pamela Samuelson authored an <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1002666">article</a> challenging the influential Nimmer treatise’s interpretation of subsection 102(b) and Nimmer’s restrictive reading of <a href="http://www.law.uconn.edu/homes/swilf/ip/cases/baker.htm">Baker v. Selden</a>. (William Patry has <a href="http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2007/08/pam-samuleson-and-section-102b.html">commented in his blog</a> on Samuelson’s article.) In a recent <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=999433">paper</a>, Professor Dan Burk is discussing the application of section 102(b) to copyrightability of methods.</p> <p><a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5508">read more</a></p> http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5508#comment intellectual property copyright §102(b) Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:32:04 -0700 Zohar Efroni 5508 at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu