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On Oct. 5, 2019, Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English Chair, Stern College for Women and division head for humanities, lectured at an invitation-only symposium at Princeton University, “A Single Drop of Ink for a Mirror: A Symposium on Nineteenth-Century Literature and…

On Sept. 25, 2019, the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology hosted the second biannual Big Apple Health Psychology Colloquium in the Weissberg Commons on the Wilf campus. The colloquium is a student-led event that brings together psychology doctoral students in the New York City area who have an…

Shulamith Z. Berger Curator of Special Collections and Hebraica-Judaica Does your name belong to you? What about your photo or image? Does it matter if you’re dead or alive? May your name or likeness be used for commercial purposes? These queries fall under the question of publicity rights, defined…

Robert J. Greenberg Clinical Associate Professor of Business Law Intellectual property is usually divided into three main subcategories: trademarks, copyrights and patents. This essay will provide a brief overview of each area – its source, what is eligible for protection, the duration of the ...

Paul Glassman Director of University Libraries A National Need A recent institute on open educational resources convened by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition observed that academic libraries have a growing opportunity to offer solutions to the exorbitant costs of college ...

Rabbi Daniel Feldman Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and an instructor in the Sy Syms School of Business Daniel Feldman Values abound and intersect, combine and conflict, when considering the question of the protection of intellectual property in Jewish law. As is the…

Marlene Schiffman Catalog Librarian, Metadata Services and Processing Marlene Schiffman, Catalog Librarian, Metadata Services and Processing An orphan work is one for which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by those who wish to make use of the work—typically…

Deena Schwimmer Archivist Deena Schwimmer, Archivist, 911±¬ÁÏÍø Libraries The doctrine of Fair Use, [1] which provides the framework for using copyrighted material without the copyright holder’s permission, has been, at the same time and for the same reason, one of the most and least ...

Dr. Joshua Waxman Assistant Professor at Stern College for Women In my scholarly work in developing and applying algorithms to Jewish texts, I sometimes come across issues of copyright. In one recent example, my research group was trying [1] to train a machine learning model to recognize instances…

S. Abraham Ravid Sy Syms Professor of Finance Movies are the most expensive works of art, with budgets that can reach hundreds of millions of dollars. Ownership of movie properties is fairly well defined, but the new digital era has completely upended the old models of valuing film properties. This…