The provisions at issue in the draft Restatement of Copyright Law on which ALI membership will vote ALI’s upcoming annual meeting are central to copyright doctrine and have been subject numerous court decisions over past several decades technological industry change: originality, fixation, categories copyrightable matter, idea-expression distinction, authorship ownership. This abundance legal a...

With the rise of digital publishing and open access it has become increasingly important for publishers to store information about ownership and licensing of published works in a robust way. In a fast moving environment Elsevier, a leading science publisher, recognizes the importance of sound models underlying its data. In this paper, we describe a data model for copyright and licensing used by...