Eric Goldman Website
NOTE (AUG. 2005): I AM NOT ACTIVELY UPDATING THIS WEBSITE. ALL NEW MATERIALS ARE BEING POSTED TO WWW.ERICGOLDMAN.ORG. SEE YOU THERE!
I am an Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Previously, I was General Counsel of Epinions, Inc. in Brisbane, CA and, before that, a technology transactions and Internet lawyer at Cooley Godward LLP in Palo Alto, CA.
What’s New
· I’ve launched my blogs: Technology and Marketing Law Blog and Goldman’s Observations
· My Deregulating Relevancy article: 54 Emory L.J. 507
· My virtual worlds article is in print
About Me
Cyberspace Law
Some additional resources for the class:
Intellectual Property and
Copyright Law
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Fall
2004 Intellectual Property syllabus, exam and sample answer
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Spring
2004 Copyright seminar syllabus
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Summer
2003 Intellectual Property syllabus, final exam and two
high-scoring student answers (one and two)
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Spring
2003 Copyright syllabus, exam and sample answer
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2002
Copyright syllabus, exam and sample answer
(taught at Boalt Hall School of Law)
Other class resources:
·
Updates to Intellectual
Property in the New Technological Age
·
Examples
of mutual and one-way NDAs
·
What
ever happened to William Redmond?
·
Patent
on Substance Dispensing Headgear
(see the different implementations and order one yourself at rofoheadgear.com). Slinky patent. Other wacky patents. Yet more silly patents
·
Original
source materials underlying famous copyright cases (including the 2
Live Crew and George Harrison cases).
Materials related to the Arnstein case. A great historical archive of the Betamax case.
·
Satava’s
sculpture. Lowry’s sculpture
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Steinberg’s
View of the World from 9th Avenue
· The Nation’s The Ford Memoirs Behind the Nixon Pardon at issue in Harper & Row v. Nation
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Journal of Catalysis
(examples of articles)
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Joe Cartoon and People Eating Tasty Animals
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Gary Saderup’s art prints page
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Brief note on email
lists you might use in a copyright law practice
Contracts and Contract
Drafting/Licensing
·
Spring
2005 Contract Drafting syllabus
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2003
Contracts syllabus, exam and sample answer
Other class resources:
·
Sample exam questions
and student answers
with my comments
·
Notes
on contract remedies
·
Notes
on ethics rules
applicable to a practice in contract law
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Discussion
about the Bachelor
contract
·
Contract
Drafting Checklists
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Videos
of Pepsi commercial at
issue in Leonard v. Pepsico.
Leonard’s original complaint. Harrier jet specifications
·
Photo
of the Hadley mill
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Picture
of one of the Peerless ships
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Settlement
of Kemp/Reebok lawsuit
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Photos
of Walker-Thomas Furniture Store
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Photo
of the building at issue in Lenawee County v. Messerly
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Biography
and photo of Earl McGowin
Legal Ethics
·
2005 syllabus
·
2004 syllabus, exam and sample answer
·
2002 syllabus, exam and sample answer
Other class resources:
·
Model Rules of Professional
Conduct
·
A sample exam
·
Some supplemental readings
Other Legal Resources
Some pages with additional legal resources.
· Online Service Provider/47 USC 230
· Initial Interest Confusion. Outlines #1 and #2 on presentations about initial interest confusion
· My recipe for drafting a privacy policy and some overheads summarizing US online privacy
· An archive of my table of cyberspace cases and statutes (last major update was in 2003)
Other Resources
· A note about the Milwaukee vegetarian restaurant scene
· Some personal perspectives about applying to become a law professor
· Tips for taking law school exams
Hiking and Traveling
In my leisure time, I like to hike, but only when I have a goal (typical
Type A). Since 1990, I have been
working on a goal to climb 100 peaks on the Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter Hundred Peaks Section list. Check my progress.
I like to write about traveling, especially from the perspective of a
vegetarian hiker. Some of my
opinions at Epinions on various travel/hiking destinations:
State/National Parks
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Calaveras Big Trees State Park
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Channel
Islands National Park (Anacapa Islands)
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Mendocino Headlands State Park
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Montgomery Woods State Reserve
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Pike Lake Unit of the Kettle Moraine State
Forest (Wisconsin)
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Providence Mountain State Recreation Area
Destinations and Lodging
·
Costanoa Coastal Camp and Lodge
·
Murphys (Gold
Country)
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Nome, Alaska
·
Watson Lake, Yukon
Slinkies
My slinky passion started in 1994. I used to have a smaller-than-normal slinky in my car that I purchased at Pic-n-Save (now known as Biglots). On one of our first dates, Lisa played with it and permanently tweaked it. I gave her a guilt trip about destroying my slinky. She tried to find an identical slinky to the one she tweaked, but the shape proved difficult to find. This launched a mission to find “odd” shaped slinkies, an obsession that has branched out to other Slinky paraphernalia. We now have hundreds of other Slinky items, and we have finally inventoried our collection. Photos of the collection: broad overview; closer overview of plastic and metal slinkies; rainbow slinkies; novelty slinkies; metal slinkies; plastic slinkies; closer overview of plush and pull-toys; slinky pets; slinky dogs; older slinky novelties; keychains; unusual miscellaneous pieces. At Epinions, I’ve written reviews on slinkies generally, the Slinky Extreme, the Super Slinky, and why slinkies are good gifts for executives.
Most people who know me believe that I am the world’s biggest slinky fanatic. However, I’ve found a Milwaukee-area collector who may very well top me!
See the original slinky patent.
Contact Me
Eric Goldman
Marquette University Law School
PO Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Phone: (414) 288-5232
Fax: (414) 288-6403
Email: eric.goldman@marquette.edu
Personal Home Page: http://eric_goldman.tripod.com/
This web page was last updated 9/7/2005