Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2022
Journal Title
IP Theory
Abstract
In the year 1978, the 1976 Copyright Act had just entered into effect. Marshall Leaffer, whom this article will affectionately refer to by his first name, had just completed his duties as an attorney advisor at the U.S. Copyright Office. On his way to academia, he, like the fictional character Captain William “Buck” Rogers, was to experience cosmic forces beyond all comprehension. In a freak mishap, his car veered off a rarely used mountain road and was frozen by temperatures beyond imagination. He did not return to academia until more than forty years later. What will he discover upon his return? Will he find the developments in the intervening decades interesting or surprising? What observations would he make had he not been frozen in 1978?
First Page
59
Last Page
96
Num Pages
38
Volume Number
12
Issue Number
1
Publisher
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Recommended Citation
Peter K. Yu,
Marshalling Copyright Knowledge to Understand Four Decades of Berne,
12
IP Theory
59
(2022).
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https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1817