Robert F. Brauneis is a professor of
intellectual property law
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...
at the
George Washington University Law School.
Biography
Brauneis received a
B.A.
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...
from the
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of ...
in 1982,
[The George Washington University Law School, ''2013–2014 Law School Bulletin'' (August 7, 2013), p. 150.] and a
J.D., magna cum laude from
Harvard Law School in 1989.
He then served as a
law clerk to Judge
Stephen Breyer of the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then to Justice
David Souter
David Hackett Souter ( ; born September 17, 1939) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 until his retirement in 2009. Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat ...
of the
Supreme Court of the United States from 1992 to 1993.
Between his clerkships, he worked as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the city of
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. In August 1994, he joined the faculty of George Washington University Law School.
He is most noted for his article, ''Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song'', which provided the evidence used to determine that the longstanding claim to
copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educatio ...
ownership of the song, ''
Happy Birthday to You
"Happy Birthday to You", also known as "Happy Birthday", is a song traditionally sung to celebrate a person's birthday. According to the 1998 ''Guinness World Records'', it is the most recognised song in the English language, followed by " Fo ...
'', was invalid.
Brauneis has also published many other articles, and contributed to the authorship of several books.
See also
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References
Selected publications
* Brauneis, Robert; Schechter, Roger (2012). ''Copyright: A Contemporary Approach''. Interactive Casebook Series. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing
* Brauneis, Robert (1996). "The Foundation of our 'Regulatory Takings' Jurisprudence: The Myth and Meaning of Justice Holmes' Opinion in ''Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon''.
''Yale Law Journal''106: 613–702. (JSTOR access).
External links
Biographyat the George Washington University Law School
Blog postsat
Volokh Conspiracy
Statement of Robert Brauneis Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, February 26, 2015
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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard Law School alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
George Washington University Law School faculty
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
Copyright scholars
American legal scholars