Rebecca Tushnet
| Rebecca Tushnet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University, 1995 Yale Law School, 1998 |
| Occupation | Law Professor |
| Employer | Georgetown University School of Law |
| Website | |
| Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log | |
Rebecca Tushnet is an American copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and false advertising legal scholar. In addition to her general scholarship, Tushnet is known for her fanfiction-related scholarship[1] and her legal advocacy work for the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit fandom-related project that supports fanworks (such as fanfiction) through preservation and advocacy.[2][3] Her blog has been named to the ABA "Blawg 100" for several years in a row.[4]
Tushnet received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1995, and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998.[5] Tushnet clerked for Third Circuit judge Edward R. Becker (1998–99)[5] and US Supreme Court Justice David Souter (1999-2000). She practiced at Debevoise & Plimpton. Tushnet then entered teaching, first at NYU School of Law (2002–05)[5] and then moving to Georgetown.[5] In practice, Tushnet has represented fans in copyright and trademark disputes with rightsholders.[6]
Her father is Mark Tushnet and her mother is Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.[7] Her sister Eve Tushnet is a lesbian Catholic author and blogger.[8]
Selected scholarship and casebooks
- "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 L.J. 535 (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 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (2000)
- Casebooks
- Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials (2014 ed.), with Eric Goldman (the first casebook on this topic)[9]
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 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 209 (2013)[10]
Notes
- ↑ Bob Garfield, "Fan Fiction and the Law" (interview), On the Media, March 8, 2013.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Tushnet CV, University of Chicago (last visited April 28, 2014).
- ↑ NPR, "Fan Fiction Writers Face Nonfiction Legal Hurdles", July 16, 2008.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/us/05beliefs.html
- ↑ "'Gay and Catholic': An Interview with Author Eve Tushnet". America Magazine. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
- ↑ Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials, self-published, July 2012.
- ↑ http://www.csusa.org/news/177866/Rebecca-Tushnet-Named-2014-Seton-Award-Winner.htm
Additional 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.
External links
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log
- RTushnet at Twitter