extraordinarily sad news
I apologize to Senator Edwards for interrupting his blog -- especially now that he is on to intellectual property and saying something extremely interesting and useful. But apropos of the balance that Senator Edwards is discussing, I learned today that Professor Ray Patterson has died.
Ray Patterson was one of the very first scholars in intellectual property law to identify and raise concern about the dramatic change in the law's reach. His 1968 book, Copyright in Historical Perspective is an amazing work mapping the transformation of copyright in America. Ray was the teacher of a generation of scholars, and though I met him only once, I am proud to count myself as one of his students. It is just profoundly sad that he did not live to see the law reflect the extraordinary work that he did.
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My wife had Professor Patterson as a teacher while she was in law school - she has a great deal of respect for him, although she tells me that "he called on me *every* *single* *day* of class..."
I headed over to Amazon to check out Prof. Patterson's book. Notably missing were any reader reviews of the book that I frequently rely on, especially when the work is outside my field of expertise. Perhaps Prof. Lessig or someone else well informed on copyright law might add one for the benefit of us tyros.
Great idea, thanks.
Ouch! We'll miss him.
Why do you post an Amazon link to that book, instead of say BN or Powell's? I won't buy from Amazon because of the stupid 1-click patent and other IP and privacy abuses of theirs.
I headed over to Amazon to check out Prof. Patterson's book. Notably missing were any reader reviews of the book that I frequently rely on, especially when the work is outside my field of expertise. Perhaps Prof. Lessig or someone else well informed on copyright law might add one for the benefit of us tyros.