William F. Patry

{{Short description|American lawyer}} {{infobox person |name=William F. Patry |image=William Patry.png |caption=Patry in October 2009 |birth_date={{birth date and age|1950|1|1}} |birth_place=Niskayuna, New York, U.S. |education=San Francisco State University (BA, MA)<br>University of Houston (JD) |occupation=Lawyer }} '''William F. Patry''' (born January 1, 1950, in Niskayuna, New York) is an American lawyer specializing in copyright law. He studied at the San Francisco State University, where he obtained a B.A. in 1974 and an M.A. in 1976, and then at the University of Houston, where he graduated with a J.D. in 1980. He was admitted to the bar in Texas in 1981, in the District of Columbia in 2000, and in New York in 2001.<ref name="profile">N.N.: ''[http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/Lawyer_Locator/Search_Lawyer_Locator/print_listing.xml?l=295D96CBFD356D&e=F&view=1 Firm Profile for Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP]{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}'', LexisNexis/Martindale-Hubbell. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.</ref>

==Biography== Patry served as a copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1990s, where he participated in the elaboration of the copyright provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.<ref name="uraa">U.S. Copyright Office: ''[http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/1995/60fr35522.html Restoration of Certain Berne and WTO Works]'', 1995. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.</ref> Patry also worked as a policy planning advisor to the Register of Copyrights, and held a post as Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.<ref name="cardozo">N.N.: ''[http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/life/fall1998/around.campus/ around Campus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929080525/http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/life/fall1998/around.campus/ |date=2012-09-29 }}'', Cardozo LIFE, Fall 1998. URL last accessed 2007-09-11.</ref> He is also the author of an eight volume treatise on U.S. copyright law entitled ''Patry on Copyright''.

On August 1, 2008, Patry announced the termination of his blog, giving as reasons both the unwillingness of too many people to treat it as the personal blog that it was and the sad state of copyright law.<ref>{{cite web |last=Patry |first=William |title=End of the Blog |url=https://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/08/end-of-blog.html |work=The Patry Copyright Blog |accessdate=November 14, 2011 |date=August 1, 2008}}</ref>

In 2009 he published ''Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars'',<ref>{{cite book |title=Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars |last=Patry |first=William |url=https://archive.org/details/moralpanicscopy00patr|url-access=registration |quote=moral panics and the copyright wars. |year=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=USA |isbn=978-0-19-538564-9}}</ref> and temporarily resumed blogging in support of the book.

For 17 years he was senior copyright counsel at Google. As of 2024 he is a partner in the intellectual property practice of the Mayer Brown firm in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-03-21|title=William Patry|url=https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/people/p/william-bill-patry|publisher=Mayer Brown}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==

Books:

* {{cite book|isbn=0-87179-451-9|title=The fair use privilege in copyright law|last1=Patry|first1=William F.|date=March 1985}} * {{cite book|isbn=0-87179-854-9|title=Copyright Law and Practice|last1=Patry|first1=William F.|year=1994}} *Patry, William F.: ''Patry on Copyright'', Thomson West (Westlaw), 2007. * {{cite book|isbn=978-0-19-538564-9|title=Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars|last1=Patry|first1=William|date=2009|url=https://archive.org/details/moralpanicscopy00patr|url-access=registration}} * {{cite book|isbn=978-0-19-976009-1|title=How to Fix Copyright|last1=Patry|first1=William|year=2011|url=https://archive.org/details/howtofixcopyrigh00patr|url-access=registration}}

Papers:

*Patry, W. F.: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190310110015/http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/constitutionality/PatryNotreDameArt1997.html The Failure of the American Copyright System: Protecting the Idle Rich]'', 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 907 (May 1997).

== See also == * Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.

== References ==

==External links== * Katz, A: [http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/view/36 Book review of ''Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars''], in ''International Free and Open Source Software Law Review'' 2010. URL last accessed 2011-9-10 * Lung, G.: [http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2007/04/article_0009.html Book review of ''Patry on Copyright''], in ''WIPO Magazine'' 4/2007. WIPO, 2007. URL last accessed 2007-09-11. * Copycense: ''[http://www.copycense.com/2007/04/copycense_conve.html The William Patry Interview]''; interview with William Patry, 2007. URL last accessed 2007-09-11. * [https://williampatry.blogspot.com/ The Patry Copyright Blog]

===Lectures=== * [http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=we11394 Crafting an Effective Copyright Law] Society for Computers and Law (UK) Annual Lecture 2009 (24 March 2009) (mp3) *[http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=990 Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars] Intellectual Property Law Society, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, NYC (12 October 2009) (mp4, mp3) *[http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2396133 2009 Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property] Duke University (Oct 21 2009)

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