Dotan Oliar

University of Virginia School of Law

Associate Professor

580 Massie Road

Charlottesville, VA 22903

United States

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There's No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 8, December 2008, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2009-04
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 28 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2009
Dotan Oliar and Christopher Jon Sprigman
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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copyright, social norms, intellectual property, law and economics, emergence of property rights, stand-up comedy

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Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-Up Comedy

THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, University of Chicago Press, 2010
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2010
Dotan Oliar and Christopher Jon Sprigman
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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copyright, social norms, intellectual property, law and economics, emergence of property rights, stand-up comedy

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Making Sense of the Intellectual Property Clause: Promotion of Progress as a Limitation on Congress's Intellectual Property Power

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 94, p. 1771, 2006
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 16 Aug 2006
Dotan Oliar
University of Virginia School of Law
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intellectual property, intellectual property clause, progress, progress clause, copyright, legal history, constitutional law, constitutional interpretation, original intent, originalism

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The (Constitutional) Convention on IP: A New Reading

UCLA Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 14 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2011
Dotan Oliar
University of Virginia School of Law
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intellectual property clause, constitutional law, intellectual property law, hypothesis testing

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Copyright Registrations: Who, What, When, Where, and Why

92 Texas Law Review 2211 (2014)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 May 2014 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2014
Dotan Oliar, Nathaniel Pattison and K. Powell
University of Virginia School of Law, Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics and University of Virginia - School of Law, Alumnus or Degree Candidate Author
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copyright, registration, formalities, empirical, statistical analysis, measure of creativity, geography of creativity

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The Copyright-Innovation Trade-Off: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Intentional Infliction of Harm

64 Stan. L. Rev. 951 (2012), Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2012-06, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-40
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 03 May 2012 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2012
Dotan Oliar
University of Virginia School of Law
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intellectual property, property rules, liability rules, modifiable entitlements, indirect liability, holdup, intentional harm

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From Corn to Norms: How IP Entitlements Affect What Stand-Up Comedians Create

Virginia Law Review In Brief, Vol. 95, No. 57, 2009, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2009-11
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 17 May 2009 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2009
Dotan Oliar and Christopher Jon Sprigman
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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copyright, intellectual property, social norms, law and economics, Demsetz

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Copyright Preregistration: Evidence and Lessons from the First Seven Years, 2005-2012

55 Arizona Law Review 1073 (2013), Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2014-03, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2014-06
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 12 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2014
Dotan Oliar and Nicholas Matich
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia
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copyright law, preregistration, formalities, data, intellectual property, empirical

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Incentives to Create Under a 'Lifetime-Plus-Years' Copyright Duration: Lessons from a Behavioral Economic Analysis for Eldred V. Ashcroft

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 437, 2002
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2009
Avishalom Tor and Dotan Oliar
Notre Dame Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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copyright, constitutional law, duration, behavioral law and economics

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Copyright's Race, Gender and Age: A First Quantitative Look at Registrations

GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-48, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-48
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2017
Robert Brauneis and Dotan Oliar
George Washington University - Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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copyright, race, gender, age, empirical

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An Empirical Study of the Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age of Copyright Registrants

86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 46 (2018), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-23
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2019
Robert Brauneis and Dotan Oliar
George Washington University - Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Copyright, Registrations, Empirical, Demographics, Gender, Race, Age

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Resolving Conflicts among Congress's Powers Regarding Statutes' Constitutionality: The Case of Anti-Bootlegging Statutes

Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 30, Nos. 3-4, p. 467, 2007
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 May 2007
Dotan Oliar
University of Virginia School of Law
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intellectual property, antibootlegging, constitutional law, IP Clause, inter-clause conflicts

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Right on Time: First Possession in Property and Intellectual Property

Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 04 Mar 2019
Dotan Oliar and James Y. Stern
University of Virginia School of Law and William & Mary Law School
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first possession, original acquisition, property, intellectual property, patent, copyright, trademark, trolls, Pierson v. Post, rule of capture, first committed searcher rule, priority, law and economics

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Empirical Studies of Copyright Registration

Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (Vol. II – Analytical Methods) (Peter S. Menell & David L. Schwartz eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2017
Dotan Oliar
University of Virginia School of Law
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copyright, registration, empirical methods