The author offers a comprehensive analysis of challenges to the constitutionality of the anti-bootlegging provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act: 17 U.S.C. § 1101, creating civil liability for bootlegging live musical performances, and 18 U.S.C. 2319A, imposing criminal liability for the same activity.
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Nimmer, David
David Nimmer is Of Counsel to Irell & Manella in
Los Angeles, California. Since 1985, he has
assumed responsibilities from his father, the late
Professor Melville B. Nimmer of UCLA Law
School, for updating and revising Nimmer on
Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the
field, routinely cited by U.S. and foreign courts at all
levels in copyright litigation. Apart from his treatise,
Mr. Nimmer authors numerous law review articles
on domestic and international copyright issues.
Mr. Nimmer also lectures widely in the copyright
area. He has delivered a number of lectures
concerning multimedia: at MILIA in Cannes, at
Digital World in Los Angeles, and at seminars for the
in-house legal staffs of Turner Broadcasting System
in Atlanta and Times Mirror in New York and Los
Angeles.
In addition to writing and lecturing, Mr. Nimmer
represents clients in the entertainment, publishing,
and high technology fields. He gave Congressional
testimony on behalf of the National Association of
Broadcasters in 1992, and Parliamentary testimony
on behalf of the Combined Newspaper and
Magazine Copyright Committee of Australia in
Sydney in 1993.
Mr. Nimmer received an A.B. with distinction and
honors from Stanford University, and his J.D. at Yale
Law School, where he served as Editor of the Yale
Law Journal.
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