Re: Topic recommendations? suggest 1909 Act

You might consider all the arguments pro and con around the development of the 1909 act. Mark Twain, among others, was heavily involved.

Note also the technology of the times. One common assertion is that copyright law changes in response to new technologies (with a lag of some 10 to 20 years in some cases). You can test that proposition against the background surrounding the 1909 act.

Are there similar strands surrounding the 1976 Act? The 1980 computer amendments? The DMCA?

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From: "Laurie Urquiaga" <Urquiagal[_at_]lawgate.byu.edu> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: Topic recommendations?

> I would like to ask the learned professors on this list a favor: I will
be taking a course on Early American Legal History next semester, and I'd like to write my paper on something to do with the development of US IP law, preferably somewhat related to copyright. Do any of you have any historical topics that you think might be interesting/fun for me to research and write about? I'd like to use this paper to satisfy my substantial writing requirement, so I'd like to find a topic with some 'meatiness' to it.
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> Thanks in advance to those of you who are willing to respond, you may send
replies to me personally rather than the list.
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> Laurie
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> Laureen C. Urquiaga
> Associate Director for Access Services
> Law School Copyright Coordinator
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> urquiagal[_at_]lawgate.byu.edu
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Received on Thu Dec 20 2001 - 18:48:47 GMT