Olufunmilayo Arewa

Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University

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1.

Enduring Hierarchies in American Legal Education

Indiana Law Journal, Vol.89, No.3, 2014, pp.941-1068., UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-141, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 269, U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2343381
Number of pages: 137 Posted: 02 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2018
Olufunmilayo Arewa, Andrew P. Morriss and William D. Henderson
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, Bush School of Government & Public Service / School of Law and Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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From J.C. Bach to Hip Hop: Musical Borrowing, Copyright and Cultural Context

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-21, North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 547, 2006
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 10 Dec 2004
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Musical Composition, Hip Hop, Copyright, Sampling / Borrowing, European Classical Tradition, Contemporary Cultural Tradition, Sociocultural Factors, Cyber-law

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Trips and Traditional Knowledge: Local Communities, Local Knowledge, and Global Intellectual Property Frameworks (Trips Symposium)

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, Vol. 10, p. 156, 2006, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-05
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2014
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Intellectual Property, Folklore, Local Knowledge, Local Knowledge Innovation Zones, Value Assignment, Legal Framework, International Law, TRIPs, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Property Rights, Developing Countries, Third World Countries, Local Communities, Traditional Knowledge

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Piracy, Biopiracy and Borrowing: Culture, Cultural Heritage and the Globalization of Intellectual Property

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-19
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 04 Oct 2004
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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IIntellectual Property, Folklore, Local Knowledge, Local Knowledge Innovation Zones, Value Assignment, Legal Framework, International Law, TRIPs, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Property Rights, Developing Countries, Third World Countries, Local Communities, Traditional Knowledge

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The Rise of Nollywood: Creators, Entrepreneurs, and Pirates

UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-11
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2019
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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copyright, creativity, creators, piracy, entrepreneurship, Nollywood, video film, film distribution, Nigeria, distribution networks, African diaspora

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Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and the Legal Information Market

Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 10, p. 797, 2006, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-03, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-02
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Mar 2006
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Open Access, Legal Information Industry, Lexis, Westlaw, Legal Publishing, Information market, Legal Scholarship, Electronic medium, Electronic access, Legal databases

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Copyright on Catfish Row: Musical Borrowing, Porgy and Bess, and Unfair Use

Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, Winter 2006, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-3, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 667385
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 15 Feb 2005
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Musical Composition, Copyright, George Gershwin, Copyright, Heirs, Control v. Compensation, African American Musical Tradition, American Musical Tradition, Sampling / Borrowing, European Classical Tradition, Sociocultural Factors

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Measuring and Representing the Knowledge Economy: Accounting for Economic Reality Under the Intangibles Paradigm

Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2006, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-14
Number of pages: 104 Posted: 13 Sep 2004
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Intangibles, Legal Framework, Accounting, Cisco, Enron, Wal-Mart

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Is Apple Playing Fair? Navigating the iPod FairPlay DRM Controversy

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-18, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Vol. 5, p. 331, 2007
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Jun 2007
Nicola F. Sharpe and Olufunmilayo Arewa
University of Illinois College of Law and Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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networks, network effects, intellectual property, music industry, Apple, iPod, iTunes, digital music, DRM, antitrust, competition law, tying, bundling, interoperability

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Youtube, UGC, and Digital Music: Competing Business and Cultural Models in the Internet Age

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 2, 2010, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-27
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Jul 2011
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Law and Technology, Law and Society, Intellectual Property Law, Arts and Literature

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Freedom to Copy: Copyright, Creation and Context

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-06, UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2007
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 21 Feb 2007
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Creativity, Literary Criticism, Musicology, Copyright, Substantial Similarity, Borrowing, Copying, Intertextuality, Formulaic Works, Narratives, Sociocultural Factors

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Strategic Behaviors and Competition: Intangibles, Intellectual Property and Innovation

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 586483
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Sep 2004
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Intangibles, Intellectual Property, Legal Framework, Intellectual Capital, strategic behaviors, competition, innovation, intellectual property portfolio management

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Culture as Property: Intellectual Property, Local Norms and Global Rights

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-13
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 24 Apr 2007
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, Local Knowledge, International Law, TRIPs, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Property Rights, Developing Countries, Third World Countries, Local Communities, Cultural Property, Capacity, Legal Framework

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Blues Lives: Promise and Perils of Musical Copyright

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 27, p. 573, 2010, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 08-19
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 May 2008 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2017
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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blues, Robert Johnson, music, musical composition, copyright, borrowing, record industry, music industry, sound recordings, African American Musical Tradition, American Musical Tradition, incentives, rewards, lottery

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Trading Places: Securities Regulation, Market Crisis, and Network Risk

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-01, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 09-01
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 09 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2009
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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trading, securities regulation, compensation, credit crisis, risk, financial market regulation, SEC, derivatives, globalization, secrecy, incentives, regulation, financial market reform, financial networks

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Accounting for Injustice: AFTRA, Work & Singers’ Royalties

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 05 Nov 2019
Matt Stahl and Olufunmilayo Arewa
University of Western Ontario - Faculty of Information and Media Studies and Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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entertainment industry, music industry, recording industry, singers, royalties, accounting, unions, AFTRA, work

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Zombies, Ghosts & Hollywood Accounting: Intangibles and Intellectual Property Strategies

in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGIES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD (Alexandre Quiquerez & José Augusto Fontoura Costa eds., 2-18, Forthcoming), Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-28
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jan 2020
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Intangibles, Legal Framework, Accounting, Hollywood, Movies, Film, Television, Net Profits

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Vultures, Hyenas, and African Debt: Private Equity and Zambia (Private Equity Symposium)

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, Vol. 29, No. 643, 2009, Public Law and Legal Theory Series No. 09-13
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Jun 2009
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Africa, private equity, institutions, vulture funds, vulture investors, hedge funds, creditor, sovereign debt, secondary markets, development, Zambia

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Writing Rights: Copyright’s Visual Bias and African American Music

UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-9
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2012
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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copyright, infringement, African American music, classical music, visual bias, sound recording, music cognition, performance, composition, notation

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Creativity, Improvisation, and Risk: Copyright and Musical Innovation

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 5, p. 1829, 2011, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-7
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2012
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Creativity, Copyright, Music, Improvisation, Innovation, Risk

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A Musical Work is a Set of Instructions

Houston Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2014, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-21
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 13 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2018
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Securities Regulation of Private Offerings in the Cyberspace Era: Legal Translation, Advertising and Business Context (Cybersecurities Symposium)

University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 331, 2006, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-06
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Apr 2006
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Securities, Cyberspace, Technological Innovation, Business Culture, Business Practice, Non-public Offerings, General Solicitations, Advertising, Private Offerings, Small Business, Small Business Financing

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Constructing Africa: Chinese Investment, Infrastructure Deficits, and Development

Cornell International Law Journal, v.49, 2016, pp.101-139, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-91
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2018
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Risky Business: The Credit Crisis and Failure

Northwestern Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 104, 2010, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-28
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2011
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Securities Law

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Curation, Music, and Law

UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2017-13
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2019
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Copyright and Borrowing

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE, Vol. 1, Chapter 2, Praeger Publishers, 2007, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-10
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Feb 2012
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Musical Composition, Copyright, Borrowing, European Classical Tradition, Contemporary Cultural Tradition, Sociocultural Factors, Creativity, Literary Criticism, Musicology, Copying, Intertextuality, Formulaic Works, Narratives, Sociocultural Factors

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Intellectual Property and Conceptions of Culture

World Intellectual Property Journal, Vol.4, No.1, 2012, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-160
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 04 Dec 2013
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Investment Funds, Inequality and Scarcity of Opportunity

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 99, 2019, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-34
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2019
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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investment funds, inequality

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Digitalization, Fragmentation, and Justice in Nigeria

George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 23-16, Chapter in Digitalization as a Challenge for Justice and Administration, 2023
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Sep 2023
Olufunmilayo Arewa and Ayodeji Fakolade
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and Compleo Legal
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technology, digitization, fragmentation, information justice, Nigeria, Africa

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Data Collection, Privacy, and Children in the Digital Economy

George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 23-22, Chapter in FAMILIES AND NEW MEDIA (Springer Link 2023)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Nov 2023
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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data collection, data privacy, children's data, children's online privacy, digital economy, data technology, minor's data

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Colonial Hangover in Global Financial Markets: Eurobonds, China, and African Debt

George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 23-18, Chapter in IMPERIALISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBAL SOUTH’S DEBT, Vol. 38, 2023
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Sep 2023
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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Africa, debt, structural adjustment, colonialism, Covid-19, Zambia, eurobonds, IMF, world bank

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Colonialism and Africa’s Future Paths

George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 23-24, Chapter 1 in DISRUPTING AFRICA (Cambridge University Press 2023)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Nov 2023
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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digital technologies, digital disruption, disruptive innovation, #EndSARS protest, Africa, Nigeria

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Prospecting, Sharecropping, and the Recording Industry

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023, George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 23-26
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Dec 2023
Olufunmilayo Arewa and Matt Stahl
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and University of Western Ontario - Faculty of Information and Media Studies
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Music, digital technologies, recording industry, racial wealth gap

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Scarcity Amidst Plenty: Regulating Digital Transformation

George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 23-17, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Vol. 7, 2022
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 29 Sep 2023
Olufunmilayo Arewa
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
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digital transformation, digital divide, scarcity, inclusion, inequality, technology companies, Amazon, workers