The Copyright Society

Seton Award

Granted annually to recognize the best writing by a young lawyer published in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the Seton Award honors Charles B. Seton (1910-2005), one of the founding members of the Society. To qualify, the article must have been written prior to the author’s 40th birthday. The Seton Award includes a financial prize.

PAST RECIPIENTS:

Vol	Iss	First	Last	Article	Short Citation
64				Coming Soon!
63	3	Jeremy	de Beer	Canada’s Copyright Tariff-Setting Process: An Empirical Review	45 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S. 546 (1998)
62	2	Sofia	Ritala	How Should the American First-Sale Doctrine Be Developed in Light of New Digital Distribution Technologies for Copyrighted Works?
61	4	Barbara	Lauriat	Free Trade in Books: The 1878 Royal Commission on Copyright
60	2	Rebecca	Tushnet	Performance Anxiety: Copyright Embodied and Disembodied
59	2	Zvi	Rosen	Reimagining Bleistein: Copyright for Advertisements in Historical Perspective
58	2	Brian	Lee Pelanda	Declarations of Cultural Independence: The Nationalistic Imperative Behind the Passage of Early American Copyright Laws, 1783-1787
57	3	Martin	Senftleben	Bridging the Differences Between Copyright’s Legal Tradition — The Emerging EC Fair Use Doctrine
56	2	Stephanie	Berg	Remedying the Statutory Damages Remedy for Secondary Copyright Infringement Liability: Balancing Copyright and Innovation in the Digital Age
55	2 & 3	Makeen F.	Makeen	The Protection of Cinematographic Works Under the Copyright Laws of Egypt and Lebanon
54	4	Patrick	Masiyakurima	The Effectiveness of Judicial Licensing in Copyright Law
53	1 & 2	Mark H.	Jaffe	Defusing the Time Bomb Once Again – Determining Authorship in a Sound Recording
52	3	Daniel R.	Johnston	Debunking Fair Use Rights and Copyduty Under U.S. Copyright Law
51	1	Catherine	Seville	Peter Pan’s Rights: “To Die Will Be and Awfully Big Adventure”
50	1	Richard B.	Graves IIII	Globalization,Treaty Powers, and the Limits of the Intellectual Property Clause
49	4	Daniel J.	Gervais	Feist Goes Global: A Comparative Analysis of the Notion of Originality in Copyright Law
48	1 & 2	Eric D.	Leach	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Digital Performance Rights But Were Afraid to Ask
47	1	Ryan	Craig	The Development of Internet Education and the Role of Copyright Law
46	4	Jeffrey	Wu	Art Resale Rights and the Art Resale Market: A Follow-up Study
45	4	Tyler T.	Ochoa	Dr. Seuss, The Juice and Fair Use: How the Grinch Silenced a Parody	45 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S. 546 (1998)
45	1	Scott	Glauberman	Citizen Suits Against States: The Exclusive Jurisdiction Dilemma
44	3	Rebecca	Martin	The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty: Will the U.S. Whistle a New Tune?
43	3	Ira	Brandiss	Writing in Frost on a Window Pane: E-mail and Chatting on RAM and Copyright Fixation
42	3	Jennifer	Hall	Blues and Public Domain: No More Dues to Pay?
41	3	Robert	Cassler	Copyright Royalty Tribunal: Balancing the Record
40				No qualifying articles
39	2	Anthony	Nolan	Brave New World? Copyright Protection of Computer Programs in Germany and France in Light of the European Community Software Directive
38	1	Shira	Perlmutter	The Scope of Copyright in Telephone Directories: Keep Listing Information in the Public Domain
34	2	Andrea	Rush	The Canadian Copyright Appeal Board: In Retrospect and In Revision