Lydia Pallas Loren

Lewis & Clark Law School — Henry J. Casey Professor of Law



Lydia teaches and writes in the fields of copyright, intellectual property, and internet law. Her casebooks, Copyright in a Global Information Economy (5th Ed. Aspen 2019) (co-authored), and Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials (6th Ed. Semaphore Press 2018) (co-authored), are widely adopted at law schools throughout the United States. Her numerous law review articles address a broad range of copyright issues including recent articles related to music copyright, Copyright Jumps the Shark: The Music Modernization Act,  99 Boston U. Law Rev. 2519 (2019) and The Dual Narratives in the Landscape of Music Copyright, 52 HOUSTON L. REV. 537 (2014). Lydia currently serves as an associate reporter on American Law Institute’s first Restatement of Law, Copyrights. From 2014-2019, she served as president of the board of Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.  

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