Senators Attack Objectivity of ALI’s New Copyright Restatement

Leaders of the US Senate IP subcommittee renewed their grilling of the American Law Institute over a project to update a copyright treatise, which ALI ultimately approved last year.

More than one-third of participants in ALI’s Copyright Restatement project reportedly resigned and asked to have their names removed from the final product, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told ALI director Diane Wood in a letter Thursday. Dissenters came from a diverse group including professors, attorneys, the American Bar Association, and the Intellectual Property Owners Association, the senators said, citing a blog post by Copyright Alliance CEO Keith ...