West Virginia University College of Law professor Caroline Osborne recently posted new scholarship to SSRN. The work is co-authored with Stephen Wolfson of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and titled Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, A Narrow Ruling or a Transformational Decision? An Essay.
From the abstract:
During July 2023, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 18,519 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 852 different institutions across 144 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 537,081.
Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,213 times in July 2023. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:
On Saturday, August 12, 2023, West Virginia University College of Law professor Amy Cyphert spoke during an education session at the 2023 West Virginia Press Convention. Professor Cyphert's session was titled "Artificial intelligence, ethics and its implications for communications" during which she spoke about the impact of large language models on journalism and media. Professor Cyphert's scholarship on this topic includes:
A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: GPT-3 and the Practice of Law, 55 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 401 (2021).
On August 3, 2023, West Virginia University law professor Cody Corliss published an op-ed piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In "Vladimir Putin, war criminal" Professor Corliss discusses the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court in The Hauge for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes committed in Ukraine.
Find more of Professor Corliss's scholarship on SSRN and his SelectedWorks scholarship profile.
West Virginia University College of Law professor S. Sean Tu recently published a new Research Letter in JAMA. The article, titled "Changes in the Number of Continuation Patents on Drugs Approved by the FDA", is the result of a comprehensive study of all drug patents from 2000-2015. Professor Tu and co-authors examine the frequency of continuation patents on brand-name drugs and how they contribute to the creation of patent thickets. Professor Tu co-authored this new work with Aaron S. Kesselheim, and William B. Feldman of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and with Kathrine Wetherbee of Duke University. It was published online by the journal on August 1, 2023.
Professor Tu has also been interviewed by media outlets on this topic following the article's publication:
