Peter Jaszi

Peter Jaszi

Peter Jaszi (* 1946 ) is an American legal scholar . He is a professor at the American University's Washington College of Law, teaching US and international copyright law , law and literature .

Jaszi received a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School .

Together with Craig Joyce , Marshall Leaffer and Tyler Ochoa he is the editor of the standard work Copyright Law .

Jaszi dealt intensively with the history of copyright law. In a collaboration with the literary scholar Martha Woodmansee , which was unusual at the time , he researched the relationship between copyright law and the personality of an author . They published various joint texts, including the influential conference proceedings Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship . Theoretically, they researched Michel Foucault's text What is an author? the emergence of the author in connection with the constitution of a modern copyright law. He brought the topos to law under the title Who cares who wrote Shakespeare? a. Jaszi became politically active, for example, when he appeared as an expert before the US Senate and argued against the adoption of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act .

Remarks

1. ^ University of Maryland University College: Intellectual Property in Academia 2009-2010
2. ↑ Thomas Streeter: The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet NYU Press, 2010 ISBN 0-8147-4116-9 pp. 145-146
3. ^ Matthew Rimmer: Digital copyright and the consumer revolution: hands off my iPod Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 ISBN 1-84542-948-6

Web links

• Website at the American University WCL
• Website at the University of Maryland University College