David L. Lange | Scholars@Duke

David L. Lange
Melvin G. Shimm Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law

David Lange is the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke University. He teaches courses in intellectual property, copyright, trademarks and unfair competition, and entertainment law. He speaks, writes, and lectures frequently in these fields. He is the co-author of Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials, a casebook now in its 4^th edition (West Publishing, 2012); and No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment (Stanford University Press, 2009) (with H. Jefferson Powell). His recent observations on the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performance (delivered at the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law’s 2013 Symposium on the Treaty) are published as “From Berne to Beijing: A Critical Perspective,”16 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 1 (2013).

Prior to joining the Duke faculty in 1971, Lange worked in radio, television, and motion picture production, and as a practicing lawyer with an emphasis in media law. He acted subsequently for a number of years as counsel to a leading North Carolina law firm with an emphasis in copyright, trademarks, and unfair competition and related intellectual property matters.

Lange has testified by invitation before Congress. He gave the Twenty-Second Annual Donald Brace Memorial Lecture to the United States Copyright Society at Columbia Law School in 1992. An internationally recognized authority in his areas of specialty, he has also taught and lectured in Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has served as a pro bono consultant to the Vietnamese National Office of Industrial Property and to the National Copyright Office of Vietnam.

He is a founding member of the ABA Forum Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industries and served on the Forum Committee's initial Governing Board. He served as a member of the Board of Advisors to the Reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition. He has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Copyright Society of the United States.

Lange is married and has five children and seven grandchildren.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Melvin G. Shimm Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law, Law School, Duke University 2016
Professor Emeritus of Law, Law School, Duke University 2016

Contact Information

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School Room 4024, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360
lange@law.duke.edu (919) 613-7093
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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- LL.B., University of Illinois 1964
- B.S., University of Illinois 1960
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 1974 - 2016
- Melvin G. Shimm Distinguished Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2006 - 2016
- Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 1980 - 1983
- Associate Professor, Law School, Duke University 1971 - 1974
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - United States of America (Country)
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Lange, D., M. LaFrance, G. Myers, and L. Lockridge. Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials. West Publishing, 2012.
  - Lange, D., and H. Powell. No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment. Stanford University Press, 2009.
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  - Powell, H., and D. Lange. No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment. Stanford University Press, 2009.
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  - Lange, D., M. LaFrance, and G. Myers. Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials, 2007.
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  - Lange, D., M. LaFrance, and G. Myers. Teacher's Manual, 2007.
- Academic Articles
  - Lange, D. “From Berne to Beijing: A Critical Perspective.” Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law 16, no. 1 (2013): 1–10.
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  - Lange, D., R. Weaver, and S. Reed. “Golan v. Holder: Copyright in the Image of the First Amendment.” John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property 11 (2011): 83–132.
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  - Lange, D. “Unshackling Speech.” Commentary 127, no. January (2009): 67–69.
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  - Lange, D. “Students, Music and the Net: A Comment on Peer-To-Peer File Sharing.” Duke Law & Technology Review 2003 (2003): 21.
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  - Lange, D. “Reimagining The Public Domain.” Law & Contemporary Problems 66 (2003): 463–83.
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  - Lange, D. “A Comment on New York Times v. Tasini.” Case Western Reserve Law Review 53 (2003): 653–57.
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  - Lange, D. “Cyberspace and its Discontents: The Future of an Illusion,” 1999.
  - Lange, D. “Foreword: Public-Private Initiatives After TRIPS: Designing a Global Agenda.” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, 1998.
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  - Lange, D., and J. Reichman. “Bargaining Around the TRIPS Agreement: The Case for Ongoing Public-Private Initiatives to FacilitateWorldwide Intellectual Property Transactions.” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 9 (1998): 11.
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  - Lange, D. L. “The Lanham Act after fifty years - Foreword.” Law and Contemporary Problems 59, no. 2 (March 1, 1996): 1–4.
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  - Lange, D. “Foreword (The Lanham Act After Fifty Years).” Law & Contemporary Problems, 1996, 1.
  - Lange, D. “The Intellectual Property Clause in Contemporary Trademark Law.” Law & Contemporary Problems, 1996, 213.
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  - Lange, D. “The Road to Camelot: Reflections on the Information Highway.” North Carolina Law Weekly 1995 (1995).
  - Lange, D. “Vietnam's 1994 Ordinance on Copyright Protection: A Survey and Preliminary Analysis.” Journal of Intellectual Property Law 3 (1995): 1.
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  - Lange, D. “Copyright and the Constitution in the Age of Intellectual Property.” Journal of Intellectual Property Law 1 (1993): 119–34.
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  - Lange, D. “At Play in the Fields of the Word: Copyright and the Construction of Authorship in the Post-Literate Millennium.” Law & Contemporary Problems, 1992, 139.
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  - Lange, D. “Sensing the Constitution in Feist.” University of Dayton Law Review 17 (1992): 367.
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  - Lange, D. “Freedom of Expression: Who Decides What is to be Published?” Entertainment Law Review 1 (1990): 199.
  - Lange, D. “Recognizing the Public Domain.” Law & Contemporary Problems, 1981, 147.
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  - Lange, D. “Speech and Press Clauses.” Ucla Law Review 23 (1975): 77.
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  - Lange, D. “The Role of the Access Doctrine in the Regulation of the Mass Media: A Critical Review and Assessment.” North Carolina Law Review 52 (1973): 1.
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- Book Sections
  - Lange, D. “Comment: Traditional Knowledge, Folklore and the Case for Benign Neglect.” In International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, 595–98, 2005.
  - Lange, D. “Poem, Willing The Child To.” In In the Shadow Of The Wall. Cumberland House, 2002.
  - Lange, D., and J. Anderson. “Transformative Critical Appropriation.” In Conference on the Public Domain, 2001.
- Other Articles
  - Lange, D. “Intellectual Property Under the Constitution.” Duke Law Magazine, 1989.
  - Lange, D. “Long Delay Hurt McDonald Trial.” News & Observer, 1979.

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

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