Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Decherney is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and Communication and Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet (Columbia University Press, 2012) and Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American (Columbia University Press, 2005). He regularly testifies before the Copyright Office of the United States, and in 2011 he filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of Golan v. Holder.
Bill Herman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is currently completing The Fight over Digital Rights: The Politics of Copyright and Technology (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). His work has also appeared in Yale Journal of Law & Technology and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Herman has testified at the US Copyright Office, and he has been cited by the Congressional Research Service and in congressional testimony.
Jessica Silbey is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Her scholarship primarily engages in the cultural analysis of law. She teaches courses in intellectual property and constitutional law and has written more than a dozen articles on law and film. Her empirical study of intellectual property narratives is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
Rebecca Tushnet is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. She clerked for Associate Justice David H. Souter and worked at Debevoise & Plimpton before beginning her teaching career. Her work focuses on copyright, trademark, and false advertising law. She is head of the legal committee of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting "fanworks." [End Page 150]
