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Jessica Litman is a leading intellectual property scholar. She has been ranked as one of the most-cited U.S. law professors in the field of intellectual property/cyberlaw. Litman graduated from
Reed College Reed College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, E ...
, received an MFA from
Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...
, and received a JD from
Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (CLS) is the Law school in the United States, law school of Columbia University, a Private university, private Ivy League university in New York City. The school was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The un ...
. After law school, she served as a law clerk to Judge Betty Fletcher on the
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. She is John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the
University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (branded as Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparati ...
, after having been a law professor at
Wayne State University Law School Wayne State University Law School (Wayne Law) is the law school of Wayne State University in Detroit. Wayne Law is located in Midtown, Detroit's Cultural Center. Founded in 1927, the law school offers juris doctor (J.D.), master of laws (LL.M.), ...
from 1990 to 2006 and University of Michigan Law from 1984 to 1990. She has also held a joint appointment as Professor of Information at the University of Michigan's School of Information, and has taught at schools including New York University and the University of Tokyo. Her original appointment to the Michigan Law faculty was only the fourth to that faculty of a woman. Litman is the author of '' Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet'' (2001), a classic text exploring the events leading to the passage of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or ...
. The book's third edition was published in open-access form in 2017. She is also the co-author, with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin, of the casebook ''Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials''. Google Scholar lists Litman as the author of more than eighty articles, book chapters, or shorter works, published in the
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, the
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, the
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, the
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, and elsewhere. Litman has testified before
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multiple times, most recently in 2020. According to digital libraries expert Karen Coyle, Litman’s 1994 testimony before the Working Group on Intellectual Property of the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force “leapt from the page like some minor miracle of truth and justice.” Litman is a recipient of
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’s IP3 award, awarded each year for significant contribution to “Intellectual Property, Information Policy, rInternet Protocol.” She is an elected member of the
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and an adviser to that body’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright. She serves on the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. She has served as a trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., as a member of the advisory councils of both
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and the
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, and as chair of the
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Section on Intellectual Property. She served on the Intellectual Property and Internet Committee of the
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. She served on the Program Committee of the 13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy, and the organizing committee of the 25th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. She was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services. In 2021, Litman gave keynote speeches at conferences at Stanford and Cardozo law schools. Her brother, Harry Litman, is a lawyer, law professor, and political commentator.


Selected bibliography

* "The public domain." Emory Law Journal 39 (1990): 965-1023. * "Copyright compromise and legislative history." Cornell Law Review, 72 (1986): 857-904. * "The Exclusive Right to Read." Cardozo Arts & Ent. LJ 13 (1994): 29-54. * '' Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet'' (2000) * ''Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials'' (2d ed. 1996 through 7th ed. 2022, with annual supplements), with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin


References


External links


Digital Copyright

Interview with Litman at GrepLaw

Litman's Google Scholar page
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