The Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts was established to contribute to a broader understanding of the legal aspects of creative works of authorship, including their dissemination and use. The center has encouraged the development of instruction at the Law School in topics such as intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, the regulation of electronic media, and problems arising from new communications technologies.
In addition to basic courses covering various aspects of intellectual property, there are special seminars in intellectual property contracts, law and the music industry, law and the visual arts, law and the theatre, computer law, sports law, and international aspects of intellectual property, as well as an Externship in Law and the Arts. The center also works with other divisions of the University, such as the School of the Arts and the Columbia School of Journalism, in seminars on topics in areas of mutual interest.
Publications from 2018
Article: Is the First Amendment Obsolete?, Tim Wu
Publications from 2017
Article: Strategic Law Avoidance Using the Internet: A Short History, Tim Wu
Working Paper: Antitrust via Rulemaking: Competition Catalysts, Tim Wu
Working Paper: Extended Collective Licenses in International Treaty Perspective: Issues and Statutory Implementation, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Intellectual Property As Seen by Barbie and Mickey: The Reciprocal Relationship of Copyright and Trademark Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: The 1593 Antonio Tempesta Map of Rome, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: The Court of Justice of the European Union Creates an EU Law of Liability for Facilitation of Copyright Infringement: Observations on Brein v. Filmspeler [C-527/15] (2017) and Brein v. Ziggo [C-610/15] (2017), Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: The Whole is More Public Domain than the Parts?: US Copyright Protection for Works of Applied Art Under Star Athletica's Imagination Test, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2016
Article: "Courts Have Twisted Themselves into Knots": US Copyright Protection for Applied Art, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: The Most Moral of Rights: The Right to be Recognized as the Author of One's Work, Jane C. Ginsburg
Essay: Berne-Forbidden Formalities and Mass Digitization, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Berne-Forbidden Formalities and Mass Digitization, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Intellectual Property in News? Why Not?, Sam Ricketson and Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Overview of Copyright Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2015
Article: Is Music the Next eBooks? An Antitrust Analysis of Apple's Conduct in the Music Industry, Alexa Klebanow and Tim Wu
Working Paper: Does Google Content Degrade Google Search? Experimental Evidence, Michael Luca, Tim Wu, Sebastian Couvidat, and Daniel Frank
Working Paper: Licensing Commercial Value: From Copyright to Trademarks and Back, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Private International Law Aspects of Authors' Contracts: The Dutch and French Examples, Jane C. Ginsburg and Pierre Sirinelli
Publications from 2014
Article: Fair Use for Free, or Permitted-but-Paid?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: Sender Side Transmission Rules for the Internet, Tejas N. Narechania and Tim Wu
Working Paper: Asking the Right Questions in Copyright Cases: Lessons from Aereo and its International Brethren, Rebecca Giblin and Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Fair Use for Free, or Permitted-but-Paid?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Intellectual Property Experimentalism By Way of Competition Law, Tim Wu
Working Paper: Letter from the U.S.: Exclusive Rights, Exceptions, and Uncertain Compliance with International Norms – Part II (Fair Use), Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Letter from the U.S.: Exclusive Rights, Exceptions, and Uncertain Compliance with International Norms – Part I (Making Available Right), Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: On Aereo and "Avoision", Rebecca Giblin and Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: We Need to Talk About Aereo: Copyright-Avoiding Business Models, Cloud Storage and a Principled Reading of the "Transmit" Clause, Rebecca Giblin and Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: We (Still) Need to Talk About Aereo: New Controversies and Unresolved Questions After the Supreme Court's Decision, Rebecca Giblin and Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2013
Article: Copyright 1992-2012: The Most Significant Development, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: From Hypatia to Victor Hugo to Larry and Sergey: ‘All the World's Knowledge’ and Universal Authors’ Rights, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: Proto-Property in Literary and Artistic Works: Sixteenth-Century Papal Printing Privileges, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: The Legal Landscape: Session 1, Laura Gasaway, Jane C. Ginsburg, Maria Pallante, Shira Perlmutter, and Richard Rudick
Article: "With Untired Spirits and Formal Constancy": Berne Compatibility of Formal Declaratory Measures to Enhance Copyright Title-Searching, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Comments on ALRC Discussion Paper 79, Copyright and the Digital Economy, June M. Besek, Jane C. Ginsburg, and Philippa Loengard
Working Paper: Exceptional Authorship: The Role of Copyright Exceptions in Promoting Creativity, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: "With Untired Spirits and Formal Constancy": Berne-Compatibility of Formal Declaratory Measures to Enhance Title-Searching, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2012
Article: Duration of Copyright in Audiovisual Works under US Copyright Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Moral Rights in the US: Still in Need of a Guardian Ad Litem, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Parallel Exclusion, C. Scott Hemphill and Tim Wu
Working Paper: Speaking of Moral Rights, A Conversation, Jane C. Ginsburg and Eva E. Subotnik
Publications from 2011
Article: Copyright in the Digital Environment: Restoring the Balance, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: European Copyright Code – Back to First Principles (with Some Additional Detail), Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Is Internet Exceptionalism Dead?, Tim Wu
Publications from 2010
Article: The U.S. Experience with Copyright Formalities: A Love/Hate Relationship, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: "The Sole Right ... Shall Return to the Authors": Anglo-American Authors' Reversion Rights from the Statute of Anne to Contemporary U.S. Copyright, Lionel Bently and Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: User-Generated Content Sites and Section 512 of the US Copyright Act, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2009
Article: Subsidizing Creativity Through Network Design: Zero Pricing and Net Neutrality, Robin S. Lee and Tim Wu
Article: The Author's Place in the Future of Copyright, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Contracts, Orphan Works, and Copyright Norms: What Role for Berne and TRIPs?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2008
Article: Separating the Sony Sheep from the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright-Dependent Technology Entrepeneurs, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: Tolerated Use, Tim Wu
Working Paper: Homes with Tails: What if You Could Own Your Internet Connection?, Tim Wu and Derek Slater
Working Paper: Recent Developments in US Copyright Law – Part II, Caselaw: Exclusive Rights on the Ebb?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Recent Developments in US Copyright Law: Part I – "Orphan" Works, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Separating the Sony Sheep from the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright-Dependent Technology Entrepreneurs, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2007
Article: China's Network Justice, Benjamin L. Liebman and Tim Wu
Article: On Copyright's Authorship Policy, Tim Wu
Working Paper: A Brief History of American Telecommunications Regulation, Tim Wu
Working Paper: A Tale of Two Platforms, Tim Wu
Working Paper: China's Network Justice, Benjamin L. Liebman and Tim Wu
Working Paper: Of Mutant Copyrights, Mangled Trademarks, and Barbie's Beneficence: The Influence of Copyright on Trademark Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: The Pros and Cons of Strengthening Intellectual Property Protection: Technological Protection Measures and Section 1201 of the Us Copyright Act, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2006
Article: The World Trade Law of Censorship and Internet Filtering, Tim Wu
Essay: Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Decentralized Decisions, Tim Wu
Working Paper: Inducers and Authorisers: A Comparison of the US Supreme Court's Grokster Decision and the Australian Federal Court's KaZaa Ruling, Jane C. Ginsburg and Sam Ricketson
Working Paper: The World Trade Law of Internet Filtering, Tim Wu
Working Paper: 'Une Chose Publique'? The Author's Domain and the Public Domain in Early British, French and US Copyright Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2005
Article: Legal Protection of Technological Measures Protecting Works of Authorship: International Obligations and the US Experience, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Essay – The Author's Name as a Trademark: A Perverse Perspective on the Moral Right of «Paternity»?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Decentralized Decisions, Tim Wu
Working Paper: The Copyright Paradox, Tim Wu
Publications from 2004
Article: Copyright's Communications Policy, Tim Wu
Article: The Right to Claim Authorship in U.S. Copyright and Trademarks Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: The International Privacy Regime, Tim Wu
Working Paper: The (New?) Right of Making Available to the Public, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: The Right to Claim Authorship in U.S. Copyright and Trademarks Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2003
Article: The Concept of Authorship in Comparative Copyright Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: When Code Isn't Law, Tim Wu
Working Paper: On Copyright’s Communications Policy, Tim Wu
Working Paper: The Concept of Authorship in Comparative Copyright Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: When Code Isn't Law, Tim Wu
Working Paper: When Code Isn't Law, Tim Wu
Publications from 2001
Article: Copyright and Control Over New Technologies of Dissemination, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: Toward Supranational Copyright Law? The WTO Panel Decision and the "Three-Step Test" for Copyright Exceptions, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 2000
Working Paper: From Having Copies to Experiencing Works: The Development of an Access Right in U.S. Copyright Law, Jane C. Ginsburg
Working Paper: International Copyright: From a "Bundle" of National Copyright Laws to a Supranational Code?, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1999
Essay: Application-Centered Internet Analysis, Tim Wu
Working Paper: Application-Centered Internet Analysis, Tim Wu
Publications from 1998
Article: Authors as "Licensors" of "Informational Rights" Under U.C.C. Article 2B, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1997
Article: Cyberspace Sovereignty? – The Internet and the International System, Tim Wu
Article: Extraterritoriality and Multiterritorality in Copyright Infringement, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1995
Article: Putting Cars on the "Information Superhighway": Authors, Exploiters, and Copyright in Cyberspace, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1994
Article: Four Reasons and a Paradox: The Manifest Superiority of Copyright over Sui Generis Protection of Computer Software, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1993
Article: Copyright Without Walls?: Speculations on Literary Property in the Library of the Future, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1992
Article: No "Sweat"? Copyright and Other Protection of Works of Information after Feist v. Rural Telephone, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1990
Article: A Tale of Two Copyrights: Literary Property in Revolutionary France and America, Jane C. Ginsburg
Article: Creation and Commercial Value: Copyright Protection of Works of Information, Jane C. Ginsburg
Publications from 1984
Article: Copyright Law, David Goldberg and Jane C. Ginsburg