Goldstein, Paul 1943-

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GOLDSTEIN, Paul 1943-

PERSONAL:

Born January 14, 1943. Education: Brandeis University, B.A., 1964; Columbia University, LLB, 1967.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305-8610. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer, attorney, and educator. State University of New York at Buffalo, assistant professor, 1967-69, associate professor of law, 1969-71, 1974-75; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, associate professor, 1972-73, professor of law, 1975-85, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law, 1985—. Morrison & Foerster, counsel in intellectual property group. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law, Munich, Germany, visiting scholar. Served as chair of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information.

AWARDS, HONORS:

John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University, 1978, 1983.

WRITINGS:

Copyright, Patent, Trademark, and Related State Doctrines; Cases and Materials, Callaghan (Chicago, IL), 1973.

Copyright, Patent, Trademark, and Related State Doctrines; Statutes, Problems, and Cases: Supplement, Callaghan (Chicago, IL), 1976.

Copyright, Patent, Trademark, and Related State Doctrines; Copyright Law (Pub law 94-553) and Comments: Supplement, Callaghan (Chicago, IL), 1976.

Changing the American Schoolbook: Law, Politics, and Technology, Lexington Books (Lexington, MA), 1978.

Real Estate Transactions: Cases and Materials on Land Transfer, Development, and Finance, Foundation Press (Mineola, NY), 1980, 4th edition, Foundation Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Copyright, Patent, Trademark, and Related State Doctrines; Cases and Materials on the Law of Intellectual Property, 2nd edition, Foundation Press (Mineola, NY), 1981, revised 5th edition, Foundation Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Real Property, Foundation Press (Mineola, NY), 1984.

Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989, 2nd edition, 1996.

Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Hill & Wang (New York, NY), 1994, revised edition, Stanford Law and Politics (Stanford, CA), 2003.

International Legal Materials on Intellectual Property, Foundation Press (New York, NY), 2000, 2006 edition, 2006.

International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

International Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials, Foundation Press (New York, NY), 2001.

Goldstein on Copyright, 3rd edition, Aspen (New York, NY), 2005.

Errors and Omissions (novel), Doubleday (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to periodicals, including Wisconsin Law Review, Catholic Law Review, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Journal of the Copyright Society, Columbia Law Review, and Stanford Law Review. Member of editorial board, Cambridge University Press Intellectual Property Series and Archiv fur Urheber-Film-Funk-und Theaterrecht. Member of editorial advisory board, International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law.

SIDELIGHTS:

Author, attorney, and educator Paul Goldstein is a prominent international authority on intellectual property law, copyright law, and related subjects. He is the author of numerous textbooks and treatises on intellectual property law and has also authored a novel using such law as a factual background. A professor of law at Stanford University, Goldstein has also taught at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. From 1985 to 1986, Goldstein served as the chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment's advisory panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an age of Electronics and Information.

In Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Goldstein presents a concise history of more than three centuries of copyright law and provides an up-to-date explanation of how copyright and intellectual property law is applied in the age of electronic media and the Internet. He explains the concepts of copyright and offers insight into the rationale behind intellectual property law. Goldstein outlines the facts, law, and outcomes of some of the most important copyright cases, including the Napster electronic song-sharing case, disputes arising from contesting samplings of music by Roy Orbison by rap group 2 Live Crew, and the groundbreaking video copying battle between Universal City and Sony. Goldstein also looks at copyright issues in educational initiatives and other projects that, at base, seem to have benign and even enlightening intentions, such as the Library of Congress's announced plan to digitize its collections and make them available on the World Wide Web. "Both informative and entertaining, Copyright's Highway is an important book," concluded Booklist reviewer David Rouse. Joan Pedzich, writing in Library Journal, commented that Goldstein's book is "essential reading for anyone who deals with copyright in any capacity."

Errors and Omissions is Goldstein's debut novel and centers on an area that the author knows well: intellectual property law. The premise of the novel is loosely based on a legal case in which Goldstein himself participated, the copyright ownership of the James Bond films. The novel concerns attorney Michael Seeley, an intellectual-properties litigator, who is bored with success and finds himself spiraling downward into alcoholism and other self-destructive behaviors. In trouble with a judge whom he angered and who threatened him with disbarment, Seeley finds himself assigned to an important case that will make or break his career. Seeley's client, the movie studio United Pictures, is in a copyright dispute over the highly lucrative film franchise Spykiller. Seeley's job is to restore the ownership clearly and unequivocally to the movie studio, but as he researches the case more thoroughly, he finds considerable evidence that disputes United Pictures's claim. His investigation reaches back into the dark days of Hollywood when blacklisting of actors and screenwriters was a hard fact of professional life, and screenwriters often had to conceal their identities in order to continue working. The evidence he uncovers puts him in conflict with the studio, the screenwriter's union, and obscure victims of the blacklisting scourge. Goldstein "spins out a fresh, sharp-witted drama about Hollywood's blacklist," remarked a Publishers Weekly contributor. A Kirkus Reviews critic called it "well-intentioned and reasonably well-written." The novel is a "thinking man's thriller" that relies "more on character and motivation and moral ambiguity than action and suspense," commented the Publishers Weekly critic.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, December 1, 1994, David Rouse, review of Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, p. 639.

Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2006, review of Errors and Omissions, p. 484.

Library Journal, Joan Pedzich, review of Copyright's Highway, p. 89.

Publishers Weekly, February 7, 2005, John F. Baker, "Legal Expert Turns Novelist," profile of Paul Goldstein, p. 12; March 13, 2006, review of Errors and Omissions, p. 34; September 4, 2006, review of Errors and Omissions, p. 61.