Intellectual Property Law
New Matter FALL 2019, Volume 44, Number 3
Content
- Tips and Pitfalls of Udrp Proceedings
- MCLE Self-Study Article
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
- Quarterly International Ip Law Update
- The Licensing Corner
- Letter from the Chair
- Intellectual Property Section Executive Committee 2018-2019
- 2019 New Matter Author Submission Guidelines
- Rule Changes Affecting Trademark Practitioners
- The California Lawyers Association Intellectual Property Alumni
- Online Cle For Participatory Credit
- Bypassing Highway [35 U.S.C. Section] 101: Congress in Search of an Alternative Route to Patent Eligibility
- Report of the Delegation of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the California Lawyers Association to Washington, D.C.
- Copyright News
- Case Comments
- 44th Annual Intellectual Property Institute
- Ttab Decisions and Developments
- Cla Ip Section Staff
- Contents
- Federal Circuit Report
- Ip and Art: An International Perspective
- Intellectual Property Section Interest Group Representatives 2018-2019
- Ninth Circuit Report
The Licensing Corner
Sean Hogle
Rooney Nimmo PC
A copyright license is not a "contract not to sue:" drafting and negotiating copyright license grants as quasi-property deeds
In A License is Not a "Contract Not to Sue:" Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses, Iowa L. Rev. (March 2013), Prof. Christopher Newman presents a useful and compelling case for the treatment of copyright licenses as the conveyance of real property-like interests, akin to rights of way, licenses and easements in real property law, and explains how this treatment finds explicit support in the US Copyright Act. Existing copyright law enables the creation and validity of copyright "deeds," or unilaterally executed written instruments of conveyance—even those unsupported by consideration, similar to the way that a conveyance of a real property interest can be manifested by deed.