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.
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).
Property hypo from life!
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Property hypo from life!
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.
Also pretty cool to see the cover of ComputerWorld from 1968.
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Also pretty cool to see the cover of ComputerWorld from 1968.
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.
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).
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.
The things you find while packing...
June 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The things you find while packing...
Anyone want some reprints? Looking to lighten my load for moving.
May 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Anyone want some reprints? Looking to lighten my load for moving.
The Supreme Court's decision from Baker v. Selden is here: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
April 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Supreme Court's decision from Baker v. Selden is here: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
I figured people might be interested in seeing the scans of Charles Selden's copyright registrations, recently digitized by @librarycongress.bsky.social - source is here: www.loc.gov/item/2021764...
April 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I figured people might be interested in seeing the scans of Charles Selden's copyright registrations, recently digitized by @librarycongress.bsky.social - source is here: www.loc.gov/item/2021764...
Found at library book sale, nice add to the collection re Harper & Row v. Nation.
March 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Found at library book sale, nice add to the collection re Harper & Row v. Nation.
Another eBay find re Nichols v. Universal.
March 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Another eBay find re Nichols v. Universal.
One interesting episode in the history of registration of indeterminate works involved attempts to register the "Montina" flooring material by Armstrong Cork, which was rejected on authorship and fixation grounds. I've uploaded the Case File here: archive.org/details/arms...
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One interesting episode in the history of registration of indeterminate works involved attempts to register the "Montina" flooring material by Armstrong Cork, which was rejected on authorship and fixation grounds. I've uploaded the Case File here: archive.org/details/arms...
Another exhibit from today's class.
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Another exhibit from today's class.
The dangers of eBay and class prep - I'm teaching the Seinfeld trivia book case today and with all the talk about the interactive CD-ROM I got curious if it was actually made. I think it actually explains why Castle Rock got litigious. There's video it working here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0c...
January 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The dangers of eBay and class prep - I'm teaching the Seinfeld trivia book case today and with all the talk about the interactive CD-ROM I got curious if it was actually made. I think it actually explains why Castle Rock got litigious. There's video it working here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0c...
Does anyone know anything about this work, registered for copyright in 1965? Feels like one of the early computer generated works and obviously the litigation in auto parts catalogs down the road makes it feel like there's a certain element of a continuing trend.
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Does anyone know anything about this work, registered for copyright in 1965? Feels like one of the early computer generated works and obviously the litigation in auto parts catalogs down the road makes it feel like there's a certain element of a continuing trend.
Found this copyright registration card from the US Copyright office. I can't find a trace of the actual work anywhere. Anyone know more about this?
January 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Found this copyright registration card from the US Copyright office. I can't find a trace of the actual work anywhere. Anyone know more about this?
It has arrived! Read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It has arrived! Read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In the Thaler AI authorship case, Judge Wilkins asked whether a slave could own a copyright. I think the copyright registrations of Frederick Douglass offer some insight. mostlyiphistory.com/2024/12/30/w...
December 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM
In the Thaler AI authorship case, Judge Wilkins asked whether a slave could own a copyright. I think the copyright registrations of Frederick Douglass offer some insight. mostlyiphistory.com/2024/12/30/w...
Also, check out this note from the head of the Examining Division (and subsequent Register of Copyrights) Abraham Kaminstein about this piece. Source: archive.org/details/USCO...
December 26, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Also, check out this note from the head of the Examining Division (and subsequent Register of Copyrights) Abraham Kaminstein about this piece. Source: archive.org/details/USCO...
New article is out - "Examining Copyright!" This one is present, past, and future of copyright examination, and represents an attempt to document what I've learned about the subject over the past decade. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 13, 2023 at 3:57 PM
New article is out - "Examining Copyright!" This one is present, past, and future of copyright examination, and represents an attempt to document what I've learned about the subject over the past decade. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....