Benjamin Kaplan

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Benjamin Kaplan is an influential American copyright scholar and jurist. As the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University, he delivered a series of lectures at Columbia in 1966. The James S. Carpentier Lectures were then published in 1967 as An Unhurried View of Copyright.[1] Kaplan also served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, from 1972-1981.

Among Kaplan's students at Harvard were future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, whose views on copyright appear to have been influenced by those of Judge Kaplan.

Kaplan was married to Felicia Lamport Kaplan (d. 1999), a political satirist and writer of light verse.


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