Netanel

Netanel is a scholar, and he brings a scholar's comprehensive, wide-ranging perspective to copyright, but his writing lacks all the worst characteristics of scholarship -- that is to say, it's not boring, confusing or abstruse.

Boing Boing 2008

Among copyfighters, Neil Netanel is rightly hailed as one of the most important writers and thinkers in the field (he's one of the few people whose words are quoted on a photocopied sheet over one of the toilets at the Electronic Frontier Foundation!) and his latest book, Copyright's Paradox, cements that reputation.

Boing Boing 2008

Netanel explores the history of copyright through this free speech lens, starting with the first copyright statutes in the 18th century and moving through the history of American publishing, the explosion in reproduction technologies at the start of the 20th century, and the horrible mess that is the 21st century.

Boing Boing 2008

Netanel ha - Levi, and I wonder how he came by her.

Excerpt: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 2008

Netanel would prefer to see a more industrial policy-oriented, balancing approach; bad motives are beside the point in industrial policy, and courts are ill-suited to address the fundamental issues of industrial policy.

AALS Annual Meeting, Section on IP, part one Rebecca Tushnet 2006

Neil Netanel added that, with an already-extant body of law on what constitutes patent infringement inducement, there probably wouldn't be much push to borrow from copyright.

AALS Annual Meeting, Section on IP, part five Rebecca Tushnet 2006

My colleague Neil Netanel reports that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Grokster case, and will thus again consider when the distributors of a product can be held liable on the ground that the predominant uses of the product are copyright infringement.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court grants certiorari in the Grokster case: 2004

The Court's actual test is potentially quite narrow, though Netanel is concerned with the implications.

AALS Annual Meeting, Section on IP, part one Rebecca Tushnet 2006

Neil Netanel, William Fisher, and others propose to legalize P2P filesharing...

B2fxxx 2005

Neil Netanel, Copyright and a Democratic Civil Society, 106 Yale L.J. 283, 285 (1996).

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