Craig Joyce is Co-Director of the Institute for Intellectual
Property and Information Law at the University of Houston Law Center, where
he teaches Copyright, Torts, and American Legal History. Professor Joyce
holds a B.A. in History from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in Jurisprudence
from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. His articles
have been published in a variety of journals, including the
Michigan,
UCLA
and Vanderbilt law reviews. His co-authored article on copyright
for compilations was cited extensively by the U.S. Supreme Court in Feist
v. Rural Telephone.
William Patry is Director of the LL.M. Program at Cardozo School
of Law, Yeshiva University. A graduate of San Francisco State University
and the University of Houston Law Center, he has practiced extensively
in the field of copyright law, served as Policy Planning Advisor to the
Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office, where he advised on domestic
and international copyright policy issues, and been counsel at the House
Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial
Administration. In addition to his many articles and his long-time editorship
of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Professor
Patry is the author of two leading treatises: COPYRIGHT LAW AND PRACTICE
(1994 & 1999 Supp.), and THE FAIR USE PRIVILEGE IN COPYRIGHT LAW (1995).
Marshall Leaffer is Distinguished Scholar in Intellectual Property
Law and University Fellow at Indiana University School of Law. He received
his J.D at the University of Texas and his LL.M. in Trade Regulation at
New York University Law School. Before becoming a full-time teacher, Professor
Leaffer practiced trademark law in New York City with American Home Products
Corporation and the firm of Haseltine, Lake and Waters. He also has served
in Attorney-Advisor positions in the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, and on the staff of the General Counsel of the Copyright Office.
In addition to his writings in law reviews, he is the author of UNDERSTANDING
COPYRIGHT LAW (3d ed. 1999) and INTERNATIONAL TREATIES ON INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY (2d ed. 1997).
Peter Jaszi is Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University, and holds both an A.B. and a J.D. from Harvard University. His expertises include Copyright, International and Comparative Copyright, Law and Literature, and English Legal History. His numerous articles have appeared in UCLA Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal and Law & Contemporary Problems, and his books include THE CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORSHIP: TEXTUAL APPROPRIATION IN LAW AND LITERATURE (1994, with M. Woodmansee).