Monday, January 11, 2010

Samuelson,Wheatland "Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform" 51 Wm & Mary L Rev 439

The article by Pamela Samuelson and Tara Wheatland of the University of California law school, on statutory damages under the Copyright Act, has now been published at 51 William & Mary L. Rev. 439, and is available for download:

Samuelson & Wheatland, "Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform"



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3 comments:

  1. Thank Ray. Ms. Samuelson also writes regularly in the Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

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  2. I tried the document link and it wasn't working, you can get a copy here:

    http://wmlawreview.org/files/Samuelson-Wheatland_final.pdf

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  3. The document link at SSRN works just fine, but so does your link at William Mary.

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