Recent Developments​

¶ Charles Cronin, who heads this project, contributed to a round-table discussion on plagiarism and copyright infringement recently published in Salon.com. 

¶​ Robert J.S. Cason and Daniel Müllensiefen, School of Law and Department of Psychology, respectively, at the University ​of London contributed their collection of primary source materials pertaining to music copyright infringement actions in the UK, Canada, and Australia.  This compilation of documents and commentary for Commonwealth cases (UK, Australia, Canada) was funded by a pump priming award for Daniel Müllensiefen awarded by the Psychology Department of Goldsmiths, University of London. 

This much-appreciated addition will be the basis for the project's first foray beyond the realm of US case law.  Paul Sipio, musician and law student at Penn, is working with these materials that are presented in the Cases List and identified by country.             

Overview

The purpose of this project is to make universally available information about music copyright infringement cases from the mid-nineteenth centur​y forward.  There is a thumbnail description of each area of the project's resources on the Purpose page. 

​Compliments

"Absolutely wonderful stuff...a unique and irreplaceable service to copyright students and teachers. Bravo"

Robert A. Gorman
Kenneth Gemmill Professor of Law, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania Law School

"This is a great contribution to copyright scholarship and teaching."

Paul Goldstein
Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

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