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David NimmerOf Counsel Irell & Manella LLP
Suite 900, 1800 Avenue of the Stars (Century City)
Los Angeles, California
90067-4276
(Los Angeles Co.)
Telephone: 310-277-1010
Telecopier: 310-203-7199
http://www.irell.com
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| Practice Areas | Copyright | | | University | Stanford University, A.B., 1977 | | | Law School | Yale University, J.D., 1980 | | | Admitted | 1980, California | |
| Memberships | State Bar of California; American Bar Association (Chairman, Committee on Intellectual Properties Litigation, Section of Litigation, 1989-1992). | | | Languages | French, Italian, and Hebrew | | | Born | Los Angeles, California, January 14, 1955 | | | Biography | Phi Beta Kappa. Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1979-1980. Author: Nimmer on Copyright, 1985—; "United States," International Copyright Law and Practice (1989-1998); "Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation Including Unfair Competition, Defamation, Privacy," 4th Ed.; "Le Droit D'Auteur en Droit American," Droit des Affaires (1989); "Access Denied," 3 Utah L. Rev. 769 (2007); "Unwinding Sony," 95 Cal. L. Rev. 941 (2007); "Legal Realism in Action: Indirect Copyright Liability's Continuing Tort Framework and Sony's De Facto Demise," 55 UCLA L. Rev. 143 (2007); "A Modest Proposal to Streamline Fair Use Determinations," 24 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 11 (2006); "Copyright's 'Staple Article of Commerce' Doctrine: Patently Misguided," 53 J. Copyright Soc'y 365 (2006); "Promises! Promises!" 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 74 (2006), http://www.harvardlawreview.org/forum/issues/119/jan06/nimmer.pdf; "Repeat Infringers," 52 J. Copyright Soc'y 167 (2005); "On the Sony Side of the Street," 34 SW. U. L. Rev. 205 (2004); "The Moral Imperative Against Academic Plagiarism (Without a Moral Right Against Reverse Passing Off)," 54 DePaul L. Rev. 1 (2004); "Codifying Copyright Comprehensibly," 51 UCLA L. Rev. 1233 (2004); "Preexisting Confusion in Copyright's Work For Hire Doctrine," 50 J. Copyright Soc'y 399 (2003); "'Fairest of Them All' and Other Fairy Tales of Fair Use," 66 L. & Contemp. Probs. 263 (2003); "Appreciating Legislative History," 23 Cardozo L. Rev. 909(2002); "Sound Recordings, Works for Hire, and the Termination-of-Transfers Time Bomb," 49 J. Copyright Soc'y 387 (2001); "Back From the Future: A Proleptic Review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," 16 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 855 (2001); "Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Authorship and Originality," 38 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2001); "Ignoring the Public, Part I: On the Absurd Complexity of the Digital Audio Transmission Right," 7 UCLA Ent. L. Rev. 189 (2000); "A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," 148 U. Pa. Law Rev. 673 (2000); "Puzzles of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," 46 J. Copyright Society USA 401 (1996); "The Metamorphosis of Contract into Expand," 87 Cal. L. Rev. 17 (1999); "Aus Der Neuen Welt," 93 N.W. U. Law Rev. 195 (1998); "Time and Space," 38 IDEA 501 (1998); "Adams and Bits: Of Jewish Kings and Copyrights," 71 S. Cal. L. Rev. 219 (1998); "An Odyssey Through Copyright's Vicarious Defenses," 73 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 162 (1998); "A Tale of Two Treaties," 22 Colum.-V LAJ. L. & Arts 1 (1997); "Forum on Attorney's Fees in Copyright Cases: Are We Running Through the Jungle Now or Is the Old Man Still Stuck Down the Road?," 39 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 65 (1997); "Brains and Other Paraphernalia of the Digital Age," 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 1 (1996); "Abend's Stepchild," 43 J. Copyright Soc'y USA 139 (1996); "The End of Copyright," 48 Vanderbilt L. Rev 1385 (1995); "Corcovado: Renewal's Second Coming or False Messiah?," 1 UCLA Ent. L. Rev. 127 (1994); "Nation, Duration, Violation, Harmonization: An International Copyright Proposal for the United States," 55 Law & Contemp. Probs. 211 (1992); "Refracting the Window's Light: Stewart v. Abend in Myth and in Fact," 39 J. Copyright Soc'y 18 (1991); "The Impact of Berne on United States Copyright Law," 8 Cardozo Arts & Enter. L.J. 27 (1989); "Copyright Ownership by the Marital Community: Evaluating Worth," 36 UCLA L. Rev. 383 (1988); "A Structured Approach to Analyzing the Substantial Similarity of Computer Software in Copyright Infringement Cases," 20 Ariz. St. L.J. 625 (1988); "Arbitration and No-Contest Clauses in Copyright Contracts," 9 Ent. L. Rep., No. 9 (1988); "Criminal Copyright and Trademark Law: The Importance of Criminal Sanctions to Civil Practitioners," 9 Ent. L. Rep., No. 1 (1987); "Criminal Copyright and Criminal Contempt," The Law of Gray and Counterfeit Goods, PLI (1987). Law Clerk to Hon. Warren Ferguson, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1980-1981. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Central District of California, 1983-1987. | | | ISLN | 904146323 | |
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