The Christopher A. Meyer Memorial Lecture When: November 17, 2015 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm EST - This event has passed Meyer, Klipper & Mohr, PLLC The Copyright Society of the USA The United States Copyright Office The George Washington University Law School cordially invite you to The 12th Annual Christopher A. Meyer Memorial Lecture “The Landscape of American Cultural Production, 1978-2012: A Quantitative Look Through the Lens of Copyright Registrations” Professor Robert Brauneis 6:00pm | Reception immediately following Event is free, but please register by clicking the link above Robert Brauneis is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Program at the George Washington University Law School. After earning his Juris Doctor magna cum laude at Harvard Law School, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (now Justice Breyer), and to Justice David H. Souter. He is the co-author of a leading casebook on copyright law, and of numerous articles on copyright, trademark, and constitutional law. He is a member of the Managing Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center and a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA. In 2013-2014, he served as the inaugural Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office. About the Lecture Christopher A. Meyer passionately believed in the rights of authors to both control the commercial exploitation of their expression and to draw from the expressions of others when creating new works. After Mr. Meyer’s death in 1999, the firm Meyer, Klipper & Mohr, PLLC established a lecture series for prominent practitioners and academics to set forth their views on current trends in copyright law and related issues. Meyer, Klipper & Mohr, George Washington Law School, and the Copyright Society are proud to sponsor this series in cooperation with the United States Copyright Office. This event has passed
