Intellectual Property Virtual Scholar Program

As part of the University of Maryland University College's commitment to national leadership in distance education, the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (CIP) has established a Virtual Scholar-In-Residence Program. As part of our academic community, the Intellectual Property Scholar has the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, conduct research, and teach. Our faculty, as well as the general community, benefit from new perspectives on intellectual property that the Scholar can provide through teaching, research, and outreach. 
 
 The scholars are selected because of their outstanding contribution to the world of copyright and intellectual property as well as their background in information technology, copyright law, policy and administration, scholarly electronic communication, and many other topics.

About the IP Scholar Program

Peter A. Jaszi Intellectual Property Scholar, 2009-2011 Brief Background Selected Publications Contact

Moderator of the CIP's blog: ©ollectanea: Collected perspectives on copyright

Brief Background

Peter Jaszi is faculty director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and professor of law in the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC.. He holds expertise in intellectual property and copyright law. He was Pauline Ruvle Moore Scholar in Public Law from 1981-82; Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Awardee in 1982; and he received the AU Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Development in 1996. He is a member of the Selden Society (state correspondent for Washington, D.C.). Previously he was a member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. trustee, 1992-94; International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property; National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., Animal Welfare Board, 1986-present; Library of Congress Advisory Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit (ACCORD), 1993.

He has written many chapters, articles and monographs on copyright, intellectual property, technology and other issues. He was editor of The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (with M. Woodmansee, Duke University Press, 1994) (also published as a law journal issue, 10 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 274, 1992). He is co-author of Legal Issues in Addict Diversion (Lexington Books, 1976) and Copyright Law, Third Edition (Matthew Bender & Co., 1994).

Professor Jaszi received his A.B from Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Selected Publications

Books

• Peter Jaszi, C. Joyce, M. Laeffer, & W. Patry, Copyright Law (Matthew Bender & Co., 3d ed., 1994).
• Peter Jaszi, D. Aaronson, B. Hoff, N. Kittrie and D. Saari, The New Justice: Alternatives to Conventional Criminal Adjudication (Govt. Printing Off. 1977).

Other Publications

• Christine Haight Farley, Peter Jaszi, Victoria Phillips, Joshua Sarnoff, & Ann Shalleck, Clinical Legal Education and the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law, 52 St. Louis U. L.J. 735 (2008).
• Peter Jaszi, S. Carle, A. Shalleck, & M. Valdez, Experience As Text: The History of Externship Pedagogy at the Washington College of Law, American University, 5 Clin. L. Rev. 403 (1999).
• Peter Jaszi, Is This the End of Copyright as We Know It?, in Nordisk Forum for Bibliotekschefer (NORDIFO 1998).
• Peter Jaszi & M. Woodmensee, The Law of Texts: Copyright in the Academy, 57 College English 769 (1995).
• Peter Jaszi, Authorship and New Technologies from the Viewpoint of the Common Law Traditions, in WIPO Worldwide Symposium on the Future of Copyright and Neighboring Rights (World Intell. Prop. Org. 1994).
• Peter Jaszi & M. Woodmansee, The Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright and Collective Creativity (Editor's Introduction), 10 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 274 (1992).
• Peter Jaszi, Section 505 and All That - The Defendant's Delimma, 55 L. & Contemp. Probs. 107 (1992).
• Peter Jaszi, A Garland of Reflections on Three International Copyright Topics, 8 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 47 (1990).
• Peter Jaszi, Virtual Reality, Appropriation, and Property Rights in Art: A Roundtable Discussion, 13 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 89 (1989).
• Peter Jaszi, Victim Interests in Anti-Terroristic Legal and Law Enforcement Policy, in Dimensions of Victimization in the Control of Terroristic Acts (Centre International de Criminologi 1977).

Selected Works in Progress

• Peter Jaszi & M. Woodmansee, The Ethical Reaches of Authorship, __ S. A. Q. __ (forthcoming).

Contact E-mail: ipscholar@umuc.edu