Patry on Copyright is now available on Westlaw - the database name is Patrycopy, and you can search or browse the treatise that West calls the " most comprehensive copyright law resource ever written."
The print version (available in our collection) is seven-volumes and 5,500-pages. Patry discusses all areas of copyright law and provides legislative history on the key statutes. He offers circuit-by-circuit analysis in several areas, including remedies and the design of useful articles. He provides extensive treatment of remedial, jurisdictional, choice of law, and international issues.
PATRYCOPY can be searched in the usual way. You can also use the Table of Contents service to browse the whole publication.
Search example:
To retrieve sections that discuss Ninth Circuit approaches to similarity issues, you could restrict your Terms and Connectors search to the title (ti) and prelim (pr) fields, e.g., ti,pr(9th /2 circuit & similar!).
Search example:
To retrieve sections that discuss the fair use defense for library photocopying, click the Natural Language tab at the PATRYCOPY Search page and type a Natural Language description of the issue in the Search text box, e.g., when does library photocopying constitute fair use.
William Patry also has a blog to keep his treatise updated at http://www.patrytreatise.blogspot.com/, and he has another blog about copyright athttp://williampatry.blogspot.com/.
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