论著作权法的核心

温蒂·戈登教授的工作已经导致了几个著名的学术活动，包括任命一组顾问澄清版权法。

William Fairfield Warren Professor and Professor of Law 温迪·戈登 was recently selected to help shape the work of young scholars as a reviewer and commenter at the Yale/Stanford/Harvard 青年澳门威尼斯人注册网站论坛, this year hosted by Harvard Law School.

这个年度论坛鼓励新上任的终身教职员工就成功的学术成就展开对话。 邀请各法律领域有成就的资深学者对所提交论文的优点和方法进行评论，以使初级澳门威尼斯人注册网站在追求学术和学术交流的本质方面有进一步的经验。

在版权法领域的国际公认和多产的学者，戈登教授自己的文章经常被选集和翻译，并已被法院在美国以外的国家引用。

Her most recent publication, “版权的核心：作者，而不是出版商” (休斯顿法律评论), which argues that protecting authorial creation constitutes the core of federal copyright, was excerpted in the 法律与经济学教授博客, and appeared in a multitude of Top Ten lists, including the following SSRN Top Ten lists: Intellectual Property Law, Torts, Entrepreneurship & Law, Law & Economics, Constitutional Law, 复制right & Trademark, and US Constitutional Law: Rights & Liberties eJournal.

“A growing number of commentators take the position that copyright is ‘about’ making publishing and other dissemination industries more efficient and stronger,” Gordon notes in the article. “I encourage the legal community instead to return to the focus that the Supreme Court articulated in Feist Publications, namely, that copyright must serve creative authorship rather than noncreative labor.”

Gordon’s paper uses historical context, economic logic, and patterns of both legislation and court-made legal doctrines to make her points. For example, she examines “the role of publication” in both federal and state law and “the language of the Constitutional clause that empowers Congress to grant federal copyright” to re-examine the appropriateness of allowing Congress to extend copyright for the purpose of protecting disseminating industries.

她指出，当大多数支持出版商的论点被仔细审视时，它们往往归结为支持服务作者身份的论点。 最后，“与传统的国会援助形式相比，版权赋予的言论限制权力远不是帮助传播者的合适工具，”她说。

Ultimately, Gordon notes, “an approach that gives more importance to dissemination could lead to the one form of copyright ruled out by the Framers, namely, a copyright that lasts forever.”

对戈登的奖学金的需求，以及她所澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究的问题的普遍存在，导致她最近被任命为美国法律澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究所（ALI）发起的一个名为“法律重述，版权”的新项目的顾问。 The project seeks to clarify “the generally applicable parts of copyright law,” including the scope of exclusive rights granted, rules governing ownership and transfer, and defenses to copyright infringement (including first sale limitation and fair use), among other areas.

“The advisers on an ALI project are selected for their particular knowledge and experience of the subject or the special perspective they are able to provide,” notes a statement from the American Law Institute. “As a group, the advisers on a project constitute an intellectually and geographically diverse collection of practitioners, judges, and scholars.”

戈登目前正在进行一个项目，探索不同的知识产品监管方案之间的冲突。 实用专利法隐含地禁止知识产权法的其他分支对未获得专利的发明给予垄断。 因此，为了维持实用专利的主导地位，其他可能适用的制度——最明显的是版权、商标和外观设计专利——在涉及功能产品时限制了它们自己的应用。

Gordon借鉴了每一种非专利制度，阐明了“功能性”原则，这一原则不仅有助于澄清版权或商标应赋予产品设计创造者何种权利的争论，也有助于澄清版权法应赋予计算机程序设计者何种权利的争论。 她已经在美国和国外的几所法学院展示了这篇文章的草稿。

此外，德国比勒费尔德大学附属的高级澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究所也邀请她就复制的伦理问题发表演讲。 这一邀请非常符合她的总体议程，即澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究各种反对伤害的法律或道德权利，以及法律上的控制权，如何与正当的个人自由（如言论自由）相互作用。 诸如此类的约定和任命为戈登提供了机会，帮助澄清和改革版权、商标和相关领域的复杂法律，从不同的角度（如非结果主义道德、新古典经济学和内部一致性）改善这些相互作用。