William Fisher

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course will explore copyright law and policy. Approximately two thirds of the class time and readings will be…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal rules in the United States and other countries…

Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course deals with characteristic arrangements under American law for the creation and transfer of rights to control and exploit property.

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students should complete every reading assignment and participate in class discussions.
Property rights, understood broadly, are entitlements to…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will explore copyright law and policy. Approximately two thirds of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course deals with characteristic arrangements under American law for the creation and transfer…

This course has an early drop deadline of December 1. Prerequisites: By permission. Teaching Copyright is open to all Harvard Law School students who either…

This course has an early drop deadline of December 1. Prerequisites: By permission. Teaching Copyright is open to all Harvard Law School students who either…

Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by September 17, 2021.…

William W. Fisher III, Legal Theory and Legal Education, 1920-2000, in 3 The Cambridge History of Law in America 34 (Michael Grossberg & Christopher Tomlins…

William W. Fisher III, Property and Contract on the Internet, 73 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1203 (1998).

William W. Fisher III, Frank Cost, Shepard Fairey, Meir Feder, Edwin Fountain, Geoffrey Stewart & Marita Sturken, Reflections on the Hope Poster Case, 25 Harv.

Dennis W.Choi, Robert Armitage, Linda S. Brady, Timothy Coetzee, William Fisher, Steven Hyman, Atul Pande, Steven Paul, William Potter, Benjamin Roin & Todd Sherer, Medicines…

William W. Fisher, Regulating Innovation, 82 U. Chi. L. Rev. Online 251 (2015).

William W. Fisher, Toward Global Protection for Traditional Knowledge (CIGI Papers No. 198, Nov. 2018).

William W. Fisher, Why Is Traditional Knowledge Different from All Other Intellectual Property?, 58 Washburn L.J. 365 (2019).

William W. Fisher, The Puzzle of Traditional Knowledge, 67 Duke L.J. 1511 (2018).

William W. Fisher, The Legal Treatment of Traditional Knowledge, David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property, Duke Law School (Mar. 23, 2017).

William W. Fisher, Recalibrating Originality, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 437 (2016).

William W. Fisher, Lessons from CopyrightX, in Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions (Ruth Okediji ed., 2017).

William W. Fisher, Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities, Harv. L. Sch. (last revised Oct. 10, 2000).

William W. Fisher & Electronic Information for Libraries, Copyright for Librarians (Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Soc’y at Harv. U., Mar. 24, 2010).

William W. Fisher, Maps of Intellectual Property v. 8.0 (Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Soc’y at Harv. Univ., Jan. 22, 2017).

Testimony of William W. Fisher, In the Matter of Digital Performance Rights in Sound Recordings and Ephemeral Recordings, Docket No. 2000-9 CARP DTRA 1 &…

William W. Fisher, The Jurisprudence of Justice Marshall, 6 Harv. Blackletter J. 131 (1989).

William W. Fisher, Ideology, Religion, and the Constitutional Protection of Private Property, 1760-1860, 39 Emory L. J. 65 (1990).

William W. Fisher, The Growth of Intellectual Property: A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United States, in 1 Intellectual Property Rights: Critical…

William W. Fisher, Ideology and Imagery in the Law of Slavery, in Slavery & the Law 43 (Paul Finkelman ed., 1997).

William W. Fisher, Ideology and Imagery in the Law of Slavery, 68 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1051 (1993).

William W. Fisher & Jacqueline Harlow, Film and Media Studies and the Law of the DVD, Cinema J., Spring 2006, at 118.

William W. Fisher & Talha Syed, Global Justice in Healthcare: Developing Drugs for the Developing World, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 581 (2007).

William W. Fisher, Two Thoughts about Traditional Knowledge, Law & Contemp. Probs. Spring 2007, at 131.

William W. Fisher, Geistiges Eigentum – ein ausufernder Rechtsbereich: Die Geschichte des Ideenschutzes den Vereinigten Staaten [The Growth of Intellectual Property: A History of the…

William W. Fisher, Theories of Intellectual Property, in New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property 168 (Stephen R. Munzer ed., 2001).

William W. Fisher, The Impact of Terminator Gene Technologies on Developing Countries: A Legal Analysis, in Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Developing World: The Distribution Implications…

William W. Fisher, Property and Power in American Legal History, in The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel 1917-1967 (Ron Harris et al.

William W. Fisher, Legal Theory and Legal Education, 1920–2000, in 3 The Cambridge History of Law in America 34 (MIchael Grossberg & Christopher Tomlins eds.,…

William W. Fisher, Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment (Stanford Univ. Press 2004).

William W. Fisher, Stories about Property, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 1776 (1996) (reviewing Carol M. Rose, Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and…

William W. Fisher, Texts and Contexts: The Application to American Legal History of the Methodologies of Intellectual History, 49 Stan. L. Rev. 1065 (1997).

William W. Fisher, Making Sense of Madison: Nedelsky on Private Property, 18 L. & Soc. Inquiry 547 (1993) (reviewing Jennifer Nedelsky, Private Property and the…

William W. Fisher, Interpreting Holmes, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 1010 (1997).

William W. Fisher, Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1659 (1988).

William W. Fisher, The Defects of Dualism, 59 U. Chi. L. Rev. 955 (1992) (reviewing Bruce Ackerman, We the People: Foundations (1991)).

William W. Fisher, The Significance of Public Perceptions of the Takings Doctrine, 88 Colum. L. Rev. 1774 (1988).