Jessica Litman

Jessica Litman

Jessica Litman is an American lawyer specializing in intellectual property law.

Early life and education

Litman is from Pittsburgh. She graduated from Reed College, received an MFA from Southern Methodist University, and received a JD from Columbia Law School. After law school, she served as a law clerk to Judge Betty Fletcher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Career

Litman was appointed John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School in 2018, after having been a law professor at Wayne State University Law School from 1990 to 2006 and University of Michigan Law from 1984 to 1990. She has also taught at New York University and the University of Tokyo. Her original appointment to the Michigan Law faculty was only the fourth to that faculty of a woman. According to Brian Leiter, as of 2007 she was one of the most-cited U.S. law professors in the field of intellectual property/cyberlaw.

Litman has testified before Congress multiple times. According to digital libraries expert Karen Coyle, Litman’s 1994 testimony before the Working Group on Intellectual Property of the White House Information Infrastructure Task Force “leapt from the page like some minor miracle of truth and justice.”

Litman is a 2006 recipient of Public Knowledge’s IP3 award, awarded each year for significant contribution the intellectual property field. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an adviser to that body’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright. She serves on the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. She has served as a trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., as a member of the advisory councils of both Public Knowledge and the Future of Music Coalition, and as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. She served on the Intellectual Property and Internet Committee of the ACLU. She served on the Program Committee of the 13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy, and the organizing committee of the 25th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. She was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services.

In 2021, Litman gave keynote speeches at conferences at Stanford and Cardozo law schools.

Publications

Litman is the author of Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet (2001), which explores the events leading to the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The book's third edition was published in open-access form in 2017. She is also the co-author, with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin, of the casebook Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials.

Personal life

Litman's brother, Harry Litman, is a lawyer, law professor, and political commentator. Her mother was Roslyn Litman, a civil rights advocate and antitrust attorney.

References

  1. ↑ Rothman, Jennifer; Tushnet, Rebecca (26 February 2019). "Summary Judgments: The Implications of Trademark Forfeiture in U.S. v. Mongol Nation". Loyola Law School. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Pitt Law School to Host 2008 Distinguished Lecture in Intellectual Property Law March 20 | University of Pittsburgh News". www.news.pitt.edu. 17 March 2008. Archived from the original on 9 January 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jessica Litman". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Litman, Jessica (4 October 2018). "David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property: Jessica Litman". David L. Lange Lecture. Duke Law. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  5. ↑ "Summary of Personnel Actions, [University of Michigan] Regents Agenda, September 2018" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-07-26. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  6. ↑ Atherton, Lori (26 December 2018). "First female professor at University of Michigan Law School teaches last class | Oakland County Legal News". legalnews.com. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Leiter, Brian (12 November 2007). "Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 2000-2007". Leiter Law Reports. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  8. ↑ Litman, Jessica (11 February 2020). "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act at 22: What Is It, Why Was It Enacted, and Where Are We Now?: Statement of Jessica Litman Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, subcommittee on Intellectual Property" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  9. ↑ Coyle, Karen. "Book Review: Digital Copyright, published in published in Information Technology and Libraries, December 2001, pp. 220-222". Archived from the original on 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  10. ↑ "IP3 Awards Ceremony". Public Knowledge. 26 October 2006. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, International Advisory Board". Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  12. ↑ "13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference, Program Committee and Advisory Board". Archived from the original on 2024-12-07. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  13. ↑ Jones, Paul (17 February 1997). "Internet Policy: Call for Papers". Archived from the original on 7 December 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  14. ↑ National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (2003). FAIR WEATHER: Effective Partnership in Weather and Climate Services. Washington, D.C. p. iv. doi:10.17226/10610. ISBN 978-0-309-08746-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ↑ "Working with Intellectual Property: Legal Histories of Innovation, Labor, and Creativity (Third Annual Conference of the Stanford Center for Law and History)". Archived from the original on 2024-02-06. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  16. ↑ "Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal Spring 2021 Symposium, a Discussion and Celebration of the Diamond Anniversary of the Lanham Act". 13 January 2021. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  17. 1 2 Litman, Jessica (2017). Digital Copyright. doi:10.3998/mpub.9798641. ISBN 978-1-60785-418-0. S2CID 168807860. Archived from the original on 2022-10-03. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  18. ↑ Rimmer, Matthew (1 January 2007). Digital Copyright and the Consumer Revolution: Hands Off My IPod. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84720-714-2.
  19. ↑ Carolina Academic Press, Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials, Seventh Edition. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  20. ↑ Roberts, Sam (8 October 2016). "Roslyn Litman, Antitrust Lawyer and Civil Liberties Advocate, Dies at 88". New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2026.