Got Copyrights? Get Patry

• Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on January 15th, 2007


• Filed in Intellectual Property

William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, has just released a new treatise on copyright law.  If your company deals with copyright issues, then you should consider getting this treatise into your law library:

"After seven years of intensive work, my new treatise on copyright is finally available for purchase from Thomson/West, here. Justice O’Connor wrote a foreword. I did 100% of the research and writing, never using assistants of any kind. The book is seven volumes, all text. My hope is that some day soon there will be a website that will contain the complete legislative history of the 1976 Act, free and accessible to all, but until then, I feel uncomfortable charging for volumes of what is, after all, public domain material.

In single space, printed form, the treatise is close to 6,000 pages and will be that length after the first year’s updates: it is looseleaf and will be updated twice a year. It is, by almost 100%, the largest treatise on copyright published, and is the first new multi-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law in 17 years."

Link: The Patry Copyright Blog: My Treatise is Now Available.