Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture

The Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture is a series of annual lectures on domestic copyright given in memory of the publisher Donald C. Brace, who founded Harcourt, Brace & Co. in 1919. Apart from his interest in the art of literature, he was deeply interested in copyright legislation, the protection of creative talent, and freedom of the press. In 1950, he was awarded the Columbia University Medal of Excellence in recognition of his distinguished contributions to publishing. This series was originally established by a gift from his daughter, Mrs. Donna Brace Ogilvie.

A Chronological List with Bluebook Citations, 1970–2026

Year	#	Lecturer	Title	Bluebook Citation
1970	1	Melville B. Nimmer	Copyright vs. the First Amendment	17 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. 255 (1970)
1971	2	John Schulman	The Battle of the Books Revived – Copyright Law Revision in the Year 1971	18 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1971)
1972	3	Hon. Theodore R. Kupferman	Copyright and Judges	19 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1972)
1973	4	Robert B. McKay	One Nation, Divisible – With Pornography for Some	20 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1973)
1974	5	William Jovanovich	Writing and Reading for Love and Money	21 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1974)
1975	6	Hon. Barbara Ringer	Copyright in the 1980s	22 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1975)
1976	7	Irwin Karp	From Roth to Rohauer: The Twenty Years of Amicus Briefs	23 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1976)
1977	8	Harry G. Henn	Cassandra Considers Copyright	24 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1977)
1978	9	Sigmund Timberg	Copyright and Antitrust	25 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1978)
1979	10	Harriet F. Pilpel	The Right of Publicity	26 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1979)
1980	11	Leonard Zissu	Whither Character Rights: Some Observations	27 J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. (1980)
1981	12	Robert A. Gorman	The Implications for Copyright	28 J. Copyright Society U.S.A. (1981)
1982	13	Hon. David Ladd	The Harm of the Concept of Harm in Copyright	30 J. C Copyright Society U.S.A. 421 (1983)
1983	14	Leo J. Raskind	Functional Interpretation of Fair Use	31 J. Copyright Society U.S.A. (1984)
1984	15	Harrison E. Salisbury	Copyright and Journalism	32 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1985)
1985	16	Ralph S. Brown	Copyright and Its Upstart Cousins: Privacy, Publicity, Unfair Competition	33 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1986)
1986	17	Floyd Abrams	First Amendment and Copyright	35 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (1987)
1987	18	Nicholas A. Veliotes	Copyrights in the 1980s: American Publishers Face a New Round of Challenges	35 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1988)
1988	19	Hon. Pierre N. Leval	Fair Use or Foul?	36 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 167 (1989)
1989	20	Hon. Richard Owen	A Court’s View of the Copyright Law	37 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1990)
1990	21	Paul Goldstein	Copyright	38 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 109 (1991)
1991	22	David Lange	Copyright and the Constitution in the Age of Intellectual Property	40 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (1992)
1992	23	Thomas Mallon	The Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism	41 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1994)
1993	24	Gerald Gunther	Learned Hand: Outstanding Copyright Judge	41 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1994)
1994	25	Hon. Roger J. Miner	Considering Copyright Crimes	42 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1995)
1995	26	Hon. John M. Walker, Jr.	Protectable ‘Nuggets’: Drawing the Line Between Idea and Expression in Computer Program Copyright Protection	43 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1996)
1996	27	Jane Ginsburg	Authors and Users in Copyright	45 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (1997)
1997	28	Lloyd L. Weinreb	Fair Use and How It Got That Way	45 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1998)
1998	29	Hon. Alex Kozinski	What’s So Fair About Fair Use?	46 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (1999)
1999	30	Hugh C. Hansen	Copyright and the Culture of the Public Domain: A Critical Analysis	48 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2001)
2000	31	Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan	Copyright in the Digital Age	48 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2001)
2001	32	Hon. Richard A. Posner	How Long Should a Copyright Last?	50 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2003)
2002	33	Hon. Marybeth Peters	Copyright Enters the Public Domain	51 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (2003)
2003	34	Jessica Litman	War and Peace	53 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (2005)
2004	35	David Nimmer	Patently Misguided? A Direct Analysis of Copyright’s Indirect Liability	53 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2006)
2005	36	Hon. Stanley F. Birch, Jr.	Copyright Fair Use: A Constitutional Imperative	54 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 139 (2007)
2006	37	Richard Dannay	Copyright Injunctions and Fair Use: Enter eBay—Four-Factor Fatigue or Four-Factor Freedom?	55 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (2008)
2007	38	Hon. Marilyn Hall Patel	I Got Rhythm, I Got Music, I Got Free Downloads Who Could Ask for Anything More? Can Musicians, Music Lovers and the Recording Industry Live in Harmony in the Digital Age?	55 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2008)
2008	39	Mark A. Lemley	Our Bizarre System for Proving Copyright Infringement	57 J. Copyright Society U.S.A. 719 (2010)
2009	40	Hon. Denise Cote	Making Experts Count	58 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2011)
2010	41	Hon. Denny Chin	Litigating Copyright Cases: A View From The Bench	59 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2012)
2012	42	Peter S. Menell	This American Copyright Life: Reflections on Re-Equilibrating Copyright for the Internet Age	60 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (2013)
2013	43	Shira Perlmutter	Paralysis to Progress: The (Useful) Art of Copyright Pragmatism	61 J Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 677 (2014)
2014	44	Hon. Jed S. Rakoff	Copyright Damages: A View From the Bench	62 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2015)
2015	45	Pamela Samuelson	Reconceptualizing Copyright’s Merger Doctrine	63 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 417 (2016)
2016	46	Roger L. Zissu	Expanding Fair Use: The Trouble with Parody, the Case for Satire	64 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2017)
2017	47	Rebecca Tushnet	Picking Up the Pieces After Star Athletica	65 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2018)
2018	48	Katherine B. Forrest	Copyright Law and Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Issues	66 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. (2019)
2019	49	Jeanne C. Fromer	The New Copyright Opportunist	67 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (2020)
2020	50	Christopher Jon Sprigman	What Does Antitrust’s Revival Mean for Copyright?	68 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 401 (2021)
2021	51	David Vaver	User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond	69 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (2022)
2022	52	Maria A. Pallante	The Art and Innovation of Exclusive Rights	70 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 1 (2023)
2023	53	Shyamkrishna Balganesh	The Judicial Method in Copyright	71 J. Copyright Soc’y  1 (2024)
2024	54	Jennifer E. Rothman	Copyrighting People	72 J. Copyright Soc’y 1 (2025)
2025	55	Scott Martin	Headaches in Perpetuity: Collisions Between Copyright Laws and Statutory Protections for Cultural Heritage	73 J. Copyright Soc’y 1 (2026)