Zvi S. Rosen
@zvirosen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law
Copyright & Trademark Law (especially but not exclusively history), plus bankruptcy/business law and property. Among other things, but that's probably what I'm here for.
Copyright & Trademark Law (especially but not exclusively history), plus bankruptcy/business law and property. Among other things, but that's probably what I'm here for.
When I teach Napster and Grokster, I often encourage students to watch Bloomberg's System Shock documentary - it's available on YouTube in 3 parts here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVR...
An App Called Napster | System Shock Ep 1
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
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November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
When I teach Napster and Grokster, I often encourage students to watch Bloomberg's System Shock documentary - it's available on YouTube in 3 parts here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVR...
Interesting video from Dave Hurwitz about some of the challenges of copyright on YouTube - specifically automated claiming and dealing with actual permissions in classical Music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4wz...
Sony Tries To Copyright Haydn's Fart, and--er--Blows It
YouTube video by The Ultimate Classical Music Guide by Dave Hurwitz
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November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Interesting video from Dave Hurwitz about some of the challenges of copyright on YouTube - specifically automated claiming and dealing with actual permissions in classical Music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4wz...
Very cool online event this Thursday!
Exhibition Launch: "Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century" Thurs 20 Nov, 6–8pm
Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, Egham. Time travel with me back to 19th cent, the time of emergence of modern copyright, in presence of one of the best collections of Victorian modern art. shorturl.at/sYnp8
Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, Egham. Time travel with me back to 19th cent, the time of emergence of modern copyright, in presence of one of the best collections of Victorian modern art. shorturl.at/sYnp8
Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century
How does closely engaging with painting help us better to understand copyright history? A talk by Dr Elena Cooper
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November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Very cool online event this Thursday!
Apparently Heinonline does AI summaries of articles by default when you download them now?
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Apparently Heinonline does AI summaries of articles by default when you download them now?
There's some amazing stuff here. A random prescient find prefiguring GitHub CoPilot et al. Also tons of copyright stuff, natch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
There's some amazing stuff here. A random prescient find prefiguring GitHub CoPilot et al. Also tons of copyright stuff, natch.
From George Schiffer, Computers and Copyright Law Revision, 11 BULL. @copyrightsociety.bsky.social 404, 407 (August 1964).
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
From George Schiffer, Computers and Copyright Law Revision, 11 BULL. @copyrightsociety.bsky.social 404, 407 (August 1964).
I just put the play this movie was based on - "Two Blocks Away" - online. Was it a proper adaptation of the play or an attempt to cash in on the popularity of Abie's Irish Rose? You be the judge: archive.org/details/two-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I just put the play this movie was based on - "Two Blocks Away" - online. Was it a proper adaptation of the play or an attempt to cash in on the popularity of Abie's Irish Rose? You be the judge: archive.org/details/two-...
Property hypo from life!
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Property hypo from life!
Random thought as I do one final research push on my AI paper - if computer technology had not had its early maturation when Congress and industry were really laser-focused on the long fight for the 1976 Copyright Act then we probably would have sui generis protection for software.
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Random thought as I do one final research push on my AI paper - if computer technology had not had its early maturation when Congress and industry were really laser-focused on the long fight for the 1976 Copyright Act then we probably would have sui generis protection for software.
This 1966 article from @washingtonpost.com has some really interesting further commentary on Copyright Office policy re AI authorship.
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This 1966 article from @washingtonpost.com has some really interesting further commentary on Copyright Office policy re AI authorship.
Anyone know what the 1964 conference on software and IP was? I did a bit of googling and nothing came up: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Software patents 'a bit of a mess' says Martin Goetz, the first man to get one
Amazon 1-Click 'should never have been awarded' and Apple's pinch-and-zoom 'questionable' says man who changed software industry in 1968. By Charles Arthur
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October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Anyone know what the 1964 conference on software and IP was? I did a bit of googling and nothing came up: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Ad for settlement claims in Bartz v. Anthropic, as seen on Reddit.
October 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ad for settlement claims in Bartz v. Anthropic, as seen on Reddit.
I helped draft and signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the pending case of Sony v Cox about secondary liability for ISPs in support of respondent, joined by a number of colleagues. You can read it here if so inclined: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I helped draft and signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the pending case of Sony v Cox about secondary liability for ISPs in support of respondent, joined by a number of colleagues. You can read it here if so inclined: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
I finally got around to digitizing this: archive.org/details/cohe.... Interesting to compare to the story of Abie's Irish Rose: books.google.com/books?id=kSU...
October 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I finally got around to digitizing this: archive.org/details/cohe.... Interesting to compare to the story of Abie's Irish Rose: books.google.com/books?id=kSU...
My students are only ever good influences (the tapes from Dastar v 20th Century Fox).
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My students are only ever good influences (the tapes from Dastar v 20th Century Fox).
Decided to ask Lexis and Westlaw AI a basic question - identify which circuits had courts citing a case had before a certain date. Westlaw outright failed and Lexis hallucinated.
October 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Decided to ask Lexis and Westlaw AI a basic question - identify which circuits had courts citing a case had before a certain date. Westlaw outright failed and Lexis hallucinated.
Apparently in the first nine months of 2025 the US Copyright Office registered over 3,000 works which list AI content in material which is in the work but excluded from the claim. This is the standard practice now. The vast majority were text but hundreds in music as well.
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Apparently in the first nine months of 2025 the US Copyright Office registered over 3,000 works which list AI content in material which is in the work but excluded from the claim. This is the standard practice now. The vast majority were text but hundreds in music as well.
Obit of Eaton S. Drone from 1917 - author of the leading late 19th c. US treatise on copyright: www.nytimes.com/1917/02/03/a.... He was a major collector of waltzes and had the largest record collection in the country. Also worked with George Ticknor Curtis, author of the previous major treatise.
EATON S. DRONE DEAD.; He Was Editor of The New York Herald for 24 Years;-Dies at 75. (Published 1917)
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September 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Obit of Eaton S. Drone from 1917 - author of the leading late 19th c. US treatise on copyright: www.nytimes.com/1917/02/03/a.... He was a major collector of waltzes and had the largest record collection in the country. Also worked with George Ticknor Curtis, author of the previous major treatise.
Good seeing some of you at the New England IP works in progress event hosted by @lexlanham.bsky.social & co. I'd really like a better title for this piece: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... and I figured I'd ask y'all. Something that captures how we've been saying "one day AI will be good enough...
AI Authorship: A Case of History Repeating Itself?
<p>The idea of computers creating works which might be copyrightable (be it called AI, computational creativity, algorithmic authorship, or anything else) is ol
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September 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Good seeing some of you at the New England IP works in progress event hosted by @lexlanham.bsky.social & co. I'd really like a better title for this piece: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... and I figured I'd ask y'all. Something that captures how we've been saying "one day AI will be good enough...
A happy 200th birthday to Ainsworth Rand Spofford, almost certainly the most important head of @librarycongress.bsky.social, appointed by Abraham Lincoln and serving until 1897 (and staying on as Chief Assistant Librarian until his death in 1908) More info on him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainswor...
Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Wikipedia
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September 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A happy 200th birthday to Ainsworth Rand Spofford, almost certainly the most important head of @librarycongress.bsky.social, appointed by Abraham Lincoln and serving until 1897 (and staying on as Chief Assistant Librarian until his death in 1908) More info on him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainswor...
Whoah. Shira Perlmutter ordered reinstated as Register of copyrights. Some disagreement as to whether Register is a Legislative or Executive official, but main crux (which flows from this) is interpreting prior precedents like a Wilcox vis a vis equities.
JUST IN: The DC Circuit has restored Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights while she fights Trump’s effort to remove her from the legislative branch role in the Library of Congress.
2-1 ruling in her favor after a string of defeats in district court.
2-1 ruling in her favor after a string of defeats in district court.
September 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Whoah. Shira Perlmutter ordered reinstated as Register of copyrights. Some disagreement as to whether Register is a Legislative or Executive official, but main crux (which flows from this) is interpreting prior precedents like a Wilcox vis a vis equities.
Our webinar on the Library of Congress / Copyright Office and the Constitution is available for viewing - check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHCE...
August 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Our webinar on the Library of Congress / Copyright Office and the Constitution is available for viewing - check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHCE...
This is today at 1 eastern! We'll be discussing the firing of the Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights.
As the issue of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter's lawsuit continues over her removal, it raises con law issues us IP folks know exist but rarely confront. I'm pleased to be joining this panel on August 12 - bring your questions! fedsoc.org/events/legis...
Legislative or Executive? The Curious Case of the Library of Congress
The recent dismissal of the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights by President Trump...
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August 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is today at 1 eastern! We'll be discussing the firing of the Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights.
Poem about Bleistein v. Donaldson from a contemporary newspaper.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Poem about Bleistein v. Donaldson from a contemporary newspaper.
As the issue of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter's lawsuit continues over her removal, it raises con law issues us IP folks know exist but rarely confront. I'm pleased to be joining this panel on August 12 - bring your questions! fedsoc.org/events/legis...
Legislative or Executive? The Curious Case of the Library of Congress
The recent dismissal of the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights by President Trump...
fedsoc.org
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
As the issue of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter's lawsuit continues over her removal, it raises con law issues us IP folks know exist but rarely confront. I'm pleased to be joining this panel on August 12 - bring your questions! fedsoc.org/events/legis...