Rebecca Tushnet
Rebecca Tushnet | |
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U.S. Copyright Office Section 512 Study Roundtable in 2019 | |
| Born | April 4, 1973 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB) Yale University (JD) |
| Occupation | Law professor |
| Employer | Harvard Law School |
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| Relatives | Eve Tushnet (sister) |
| Website | Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log |
Rebecca Tushnet (born April 4, 1973) is an American legal scholar. She serves as the
First Amendment, and false advertising
.
In addition to her general scholarship, Tushnet is known for her
Biography
Education
Tushnet was a policy debater at Harvard, getting to finals of the National Debate Tournament in 1992 and 1995,[4] she received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1995, and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School[5] in 1998.[6]
Career
Tushnet served as a law clerk to Judge
United States Supreme Court. She practiced at Debevoise & Plimpton. Tushnet then entered teaching, first at NYU School of Law (2002–04),[6] then at Georgetown University Law Center (2004–16),[5] and most recently at Harvard Law School.[7] In practice, Tushnet has represented fans in copyright and trademark disputes with rightsholders.[8]
Personal life
Her father is Mark Tushnet and her mother is Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.[9]
Her sister Eve Tushnet is a lesbian Catholic author and blogger.[10]
Selected scholarship and casebooks
- Articles
- "Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law", 125 Harvard Law Review. 683 (2012)
- "Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science", 86 Texas Law Review. 507 (2008)
- "Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law", 17 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 651 (1997)
- "Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It", 114 Yale Law Journal535 (2004)
- "Copyright as a Model for Free Speech Law: What Copyright Has in Common with Anti-Pornography Laws, Campaign Finance Reform, and Telecommunications Regulation" 42 Boston College Law Review 1 (2000)
- Casebooks
- Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials (2014 ed.), with Eric Goldman (the first casebook on this topic)[11]
Awards
- 1997 Nathan Burkan Prize for best paper in the field of copyright ("Legal Fictions")
- The Copyright Society of the USA awarded her the 2014 Seton Award for Performance Anxiety: Copyright Embodied and Disembodied, 60 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 209 (2013)
- 2015 recipient of Public Knowledge's IP3 Award in the area of intellectual property[13]
- In 2016, her blog was inducted into the ABA Journal's "Blawg 100 Hall of Fame."[14]
See also
References
- ^ Bob Garfield (March 7, 2013). Fan Fiction and the Law. On the Media. WNYC. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ^ "Legal Advocacy", Organization for Transformative Works. (Last visited April 28, 2014).
- ^ Nick Gillespie & Joshua Swain, "Fan Fiction vs. Copyright - Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet", Reason Magazine, July 20, 2012.
- ^ "Champions, Runners-Up, and Semi-Finalists 1947-2012". West Point National Tournament. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ^ a b "Rebecca L. Tushnet". Georgetown Law. Georgetown University. Archived from the original on June 20, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
- ^ a b Tushnet CV Archived 2021-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, University of Chicago. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ^ "Rebecca Tushnet joins Harvard Law faculty as Professor of First Amendment Law - Harvard Law Today". Harvard Law Today. November 14, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ^ "Fan Fiction Writers Face Nonfiction Legal Hurdles". NPR. July 16, 2008. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ^ Oppenheimer, Mark (June 4, 2010). "A Gay Catholic Voice Against Same-Sex Marriage". The New York Times. p. A14.
- ^ Sean Salai, S.J. (July 3, 2014). "'Gay and Catholic': An Interview with Author Eve Tushnet". America Magazine.
- ^ Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials, self-published, July 2012
- ^ Hinde, Rebecca (June 16, 2014). "Rebecca Tushnet Named 2014 Seton Award Winner". Archived from the original on November 23, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ^ "12th Annual IP3 Award". Public Knowledge. 26 October 2006. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ^ Mui, Sarah; McDonough, Molly; Rawles, Lee (December 1, 2018). "Blawg 100 Hall of Fame". ABA Journal.
Further reading
- Christina Spiesel, "More Than a Thousand Words in Response to Rebecca Tushnet" (Responding to Rebecca Tushnet, Worth a Thousand Words: Images of Copyright, 125 Harv. L. Rev.683 (2011)), 125 Harv. L. Rev. F. 40 (Feb. 22, 2012).
- Lauren Davis, "Are Fan Fiction and Fan Art Legal?" (interview with Rebecca Tushnet), io9.com, Aug. 12, 2012.
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