Oren Bracha
- Howrey LLP and Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professorship in Law
- William C. Conner Chair in Law
- Professor
Oren Bracha is a legal historian and an intellectual property law scholar whose fields of interest include intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory. Professor Bracha has taught courses on intellectual property, contracts, and copyright, and also directed the Equality Seminar.
Featured Work
United States Copyright, 1672-1909
Oren Bracha is a legal historian and an intellectual property law scholar. His dissertation "Owning Ideas" is a comprehensive intellectual history of Anglo-American intellectual property law. Bracha was a law clerk for Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. Prior to coming to UT he worked on several teaching and research projects for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His fields of interest include intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory.
Prof. Bracha’s newest book, Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909, now available from Cambridge University Press, explores the history of the emergence of intellectual property in the United States during the nineteenth century, examining the fields of both patent and copyright. It has been hailed as “a superb study of the transformation of American copyright and patent doctrine in the nineteenth century.... deeply researched, finely nuanced, and lucidly presented."
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year-2019
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Article
Redundancy and Anti-Redundancy in Copyright
Oren Bracha & John M. Golden, Redundancy and Anti-Redundancy in Copyright, 51 Conn. L. Rev. 247–310 (2019).
year-2016
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Article
Copyright Accidents
Oren Bracha, Copyright Accidents [Symposium: Notice and Notice Failure in Intellectual Property Law], 96 Boston University Law Review 1025 (2016) (with Patrick R. Goold). -
Book Chapter
United States Copyright, 1672-1909
Oren Bracha, United States Copyright, 1672-1909, in Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law 335 (Isabella Alexander & Tomás Gómez-Arostegui, eds., 2016). -
Book
Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909
Oren Bracha. Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909 ( Cambridge University Press, 2016). View online.
year-2014
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Article
Beyond the Incentive-Access Paradigm? Product Differentiation & Copyright Revisited
Oren Bracha, Beyond the Incentive-Access Paradigm? Product Differentiation & Copyright Revisited [Symposium: Steps Toward Evidence-Based IP], 92 Texas Law Review 1841 (2014) (with Talha Syed). -
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Beyond Efficiency: Consequence-Sensitive Theories of Copyright
Oren Bracha, Beyond Efficiency: Consequence-Sensitive Theories of Copyright, 29 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 229 (2014) (with Talha Syed). -
Article
The Folklore of Informationalism: The Case of Search Engine Speech
Oren Bracha, The Folklore of Informationalism: The Case of Search Engine Speech, 82 Fordham Law Review 1629 (2014).
year-2013
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Article
Copyright History as History of Technology
Oren Bracha, Copyright History as History of Technology, 5 WIPO Journal 45 (2013).
year-2012
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Book Chapter
How Did Film Become Property? Copyright and the Early American Film Industry
Oren Bracha, How Did Film Become Property? Copyright and the Early American Film Industry, in Copyright and the Challenge of the New 141 (Brad Sherman & Leanne Wiseman, eds., 2012).
year-2011
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Book Review
Book Review, Figures of Invention: A History of Modern Patent Law, by Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman
Oren Bracha, Figures of Invention: A History of Modern Patent Law, by Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman, 2 The IP Law Book Review 35 (2011).
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Book Chapter
Hale and Foucault in Cyberspace
Oren Bracha, Hale and Foucault in Cyberspace, in Technology and the Law 117 (Michael Birenhack & Niva Elkin Koren, eds., 2011) (Hebrew edition). -
Book Review
Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century
Oren Bracha. “Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century.” In 29 Law and History Review, Page 630 (2011). Review of Isabella Alexander. -
Book Review
Figures of Invention: A History of Modern Patent Law
Oren Bracha. “Figures of Invention: A History of Modern Patent Law.” In 2 The IP Law Book Review, Page 35 (2011). Review of Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman.
year-2010
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Article
The Statute of Anne: An American Mythology
Oren Bracha, The Statute of Anne: An American Mythology, 47 Houston Law Review 877 (2010). -
Book Chapter
Early American Printing Privileges. The Ambivalent Origins of Authors' Copyright in America
Oren Bracha, Early American Printing Privileges. The Ambivalent Origins of Authors' Copyright in America, in Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright 89 (Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer & Lionel Bentley eds., Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2010). -
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The Adventures of the Statute of Anne in the Land of Unlimited Possibilities: The Life of a Legal Transplant
Oren Bracha, The Adventures of the Statute of Anne in the Land of Unlimited Possibilities: The Life of a Legal Transplant [Symposium: Copyright@300], 25 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1427 (2010). -
Book Review
The New Intellectual Property of the Nineteenth Century
Oren Bracha, The New Intellectual Property of the Nineteenth Century, 89 Texas Law Review 423 (2010) (reviewing Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930, by Catherine L. Fisk, and Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century, by Isabella Alexander).
year-2009
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Book Chapter
Geniuses and Owners: The Construction of Inventors and the Emergence of American Intellectual Property
Oren Bracha, Geniuses and Owners: The Construction of Inventors and the Emergence of American Intellectual Property, in Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz 369 (Daniel W. Hamilton & Alfred L. Brophy eds., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009). -
Book Chapter
Monopolies
Oren Bracha, Monopolies, in 4 The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History 186 (Stanley N. Katz ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
year-2008
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Article
Federal Search Commission? Access, Fairness, and Accountability in the Law of Search
Oren Bracha, Federal Search Commission? Access, Fairness, and Accountability in the Law of Search, 93 Cornell Law Review 1149 (2008) (with Frank Pasquale).
spring 2025
- Intellectual Property, Introduction
- SMNR: Equality