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Wendy Gordon

Professor of Law William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University

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Wendy Gordon’s work emphasizes that our legal environment must cultivate the exchange of ideas, expression and information for everyone — not only established players in various industries. Her writings reflect her passion for creative exchange. Renowned for her application of philosophy and economics to copyright and related common-law areas and for her work on fair use, she has published on four continents, received numerous honors and grants and speaks to audiences all over the world.

Her favorite audience, however, is her students. The recipient of a teaching award, Professor Gordon particularly enjoys interdisiplinary teaching; she has twice cotaught a course in property theory with a professor of Philosophy, and with a master Shakespearean actor she twice cotaught a seminar in Copyright and Rhetoric.

Professor Gordon’s honors include serving as a Fulbright scholar, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Oxford’s St. John’s College, a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation retreat in Bellagio, a visiting fellow at Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and the recipient of a New Jersey Governor’s Fellowship in the Humanities. Her scholarship has been cited in three opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. She has twice served as the Chair of the AALS Section on Intellectual Property.

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The Conversation US – Wendy Gordon

March 17, 2015

How the jury in the 'Blurred Lines' case was misled Wendy Gordon, Boston University Last week, a jury in California decided that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke should pay $7.4 million to the family of Marvin Gaye, finding that Williams’ and Thicke’s 2013 song “Blurred Lines” unlawfully copied Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It […]

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Jury Weighs ‘Blurred Lines’ Copying Case

March 6, 2015

Voice of America Wendy Gordon, School of Law Pharrell Williams, the singer, songwriter and producer best known for his hit “Happy,” was in U.S. District Court trial in Los Angeles this week with singer Robin Thicke… Expert quote: “The jury still has to consider whether the copying is so extensive as to be wrongful. No […]

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The Lost Logic Of Deterrence: When ‘Sending A Message’ To The Masses Outstrips Fairness

July 11, 2013

WBUR “Cognoscenti” By Wendy Gordon, School of Law The first morning that then Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum woke to the realization that he had a $675,000 court judgment against him, it must have felt like some kind of weird hangover… View full article

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Secrets of the tag tuck sisterhood

June 15, 2013

Boston Herald By Wendy Gordon, School of Law Women tend to be more friendly than men… View full article

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