Waste-Book

The Pleasure Principal from Penny Lane on Vimeo.

NELLIE BLY MAKES THE NEWS (2018, 24mins, 4K video) is an animated documentary about Nellie Bly, a muckracking investigative journalist who changed the game for women in reporting before women even had the right to vote. Drawing from extensive primary sources including Bly’s own writing, and presenting both real-world interviewees and reenactments in several styles of animation and illustration, this short film investigates the porous line between reporting facts and telling stories, while creating a dynamic portrait of a woman who refused to accept the status quo.

Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust, 755 F. 3d 87 (2d Cir. 2014)

Maxwell's Video Showcase, Ltd., operated two stores in Erie, Pennsylvania. Among other things, Maxwell's sold and rented prerecorded videotapes, and rented small rooms in which up to four customers at a time could watch videos. The VCRs were operated by Maxwell’s employees from a central location. A group of movie studios sued Maxwell’s for infringing the performance right in their audiovisual works, and the 3rd Circuit found for the plaintiffs.

The only protest I ever went to was a "march for women's lives" (abortion rights) in 2004 and this is the video I made about it. I don't really understand the video.

A New York Times Op-Doc. Co-directed with Brian L. Frye. 2011.

Gracen v. Bradford Exchange, 698 F. 2d 300 (7th Cir. 1983)

“Briefly: First step in patent matter - send me sketch or model and $15 to cover search and report on patentability. First step in trade mark matter - send me a sample or sketch of mark and $15 for search and report on registrability. My booklet on patent and trade mark procedure sent free on request.”

In Feist v. Rural, the Supreme Court held that “originality” is a constitutional requirement for copyright protection of an element of a work of authorship, and that “originality” requires both “independent creation” by the author of the work, and some degree of “creativity.” The Supreme Court held that copyright could not protect Rural’s white pages telephone directory, because the individual listings were “facts” that Rural “copied from the world” rather than “creating,” and because the “selection, ordering, and arrangement” of the listings in the directory lacked any “creativity” whatsoever.

Stereograph Card, 3088: New Wing, Patent Office, Washington, D.C., USA (c. 1860)

Stereograph Card: B.W. Kilburn, 6558: New Wing, Patent Office, Washington, D.C., USA (1861)

Patent Office of the United States, Bicentennial Token (1991)

Victor J. Evans & Co., “Certificate of Patentability” (c. 1900)

Bowman Gum Co., Jerry Coleman, Baseball Picture Card no. 49 (1951) Topps Chewing Gum, Gerry Coleman, [Red Back] No. 18 of 52 (1951)

U.S. Patent Office, Washington, D.C. (c. 1906)

U.S. Patent Office, Washington, D.C.