William F. Patry (born January 1, 1950 in
Niskayuna, New York
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) is an American
lawyer
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specializing in
copyright law
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. He studied at the
San Francisco State University
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, where he obtained a
B.A.
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in 1974 and an
M.A.
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in 1976, and then at the
University of Houston
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, where he graduated with a
J.D. in 1980. He was
admitted to the bar
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in
Texas
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in 1981, in the
District of Columbia
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in 2000, and in
New York
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in 2001.
[N.N.: ]
Firm Profile for Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP
', LexisNexis/Martindale-Hubbell. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
Biography
Patry served as a copyright counsel to the
U.S. House of Representatives
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in the early 1990s, where he participated in the elaboration of the copyright provisions of the
Uruguay Round Agreements Act
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA; ) is an Act of Congress in the United States that implemented in U.S. law the Marrakesh Agreement of 1994. The Marrakesh Agreement was part of the Uruguay Round of negotiations which transformed the General ...
.
[U.S. Copyright Office: ]
Restoration of Certain Berne and WTO Works
', 1995. URL last accessed 2007-09-11. Patry also worked as a policy planning advisor to the
Register of Copyrights
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, and held a post as Professor of Law at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
[N.N.: ]
around Campus
', Cardozo LIFE, Fall 1998. URL last accessed 2007-09-11. He is also the author of an eight volume treatise on U.S. copyright law entitled ''Patry on Copyright''. Patry is Senior Copyright Counsel at
Google
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.
On August 1, 2008, Patry announced the termination of his blog, giving as reasons both the unwillingness of too many people to treat it as the personal blog that it was and the sad state of copyright law.
In 2009 he published ''Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars'',
and temporarily resumed blogging in support of the book.
Selected bibliography
Books:
*
*
*Patry, William F.: ''Patry on Copyright'', Thomson West (
Westlaw
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), 2007.
*
*
Papers:
*Patry, W. F.:
The Failure of the American Copyright System: Protecting the Idle Rich', 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 907 (May 1997).
See also
*
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
''Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.'', 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), was a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be ...
References
External links
* Katz, A
Book review of ''Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars'' in ''
International Free and Open Source Software Law Review'' 2010. URL last accessed 2011-9-10
* Lung, G.
Book review of ''Patry on Copyright'' in ''
WIPO Magazine
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'' 4/2007.
WIPO
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, 2007. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
* Copycense:
The William Patry Interview'; interview with William Patry, 2007. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.
The Patry Copyright Blog
Lectures
Crafting an Effective Copyright LawSociety for Computers and Law (UK) Annual Lecture 2009 (24 March 2009) (
mp3
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)
Moral Panics and the Copyright WarsIntellectual Property Law Society, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, NYC (12 October 2009) (
mp4,
mp3
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)
2009 Frey Lecture in Intellectual PropertyDuke University (Oct 21 2009)
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American lawyers
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1950 births
Living people
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews