Photo of Eric E Johnson
Eric E. Johnson
Associate Professor of Law
University of North Dakota School of Law
BIO

RESOURCES
Exam Archive
Compendium of Materials for Media & Entertainment Law
Compendium of Materials for Intellectual Property

COURSES
Torts, 2010-2011
Antitrust, Bankruptcy & Consumer Law, 2010
Sports Law, 2010
Torts, 2009-2010
Intellectual Property, Fall 2009
Media & Entertainment Law, Spring 2009
Torts, 2008-2009
Intellectual Property, Fall 2008
Torts, 2007-2008
Entertainment Law, Spring 2008
Trademarks, Unfair Competition, and Unfair Trade Practices, Fall 2006
Entertainment Law, Summer 2006
Patent Law, Spring 2006
Entertainment Law, Summer 2005
PRESS
Blogger Sued By Copyright Troll Argues He Had 'Implied License'
by Wendy Davis
MediaPost News, Online Media Daily
August 18, 2010
Mr. Know-It-All: Sharing YouTube Revenue
by Brendan I. Koerner
Wired magazine, p. 36
August 2010
The Swamp and the Swamp Creature: Is the Law Too Complex? 
by Ashby Jones
Wall Street Journal Law Blog
July 29, 2010
Report: New legal solutions needed for experiments like CERN's 
interview of Eric E. Johnson by Alex Helmick
World Radio Swtizerland
February 26, 2010
CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down? 
by Eric E. Johnson
New Scientist
February 17, 2010
Law and the end of the world 
by Edwin Cartlidge
Physics World
February 2, 2010
A Lawyer's View of the Risk of Black Hole Catastrophe at the LHC
By Lisa Zyga
PsyOrg.com
January 22, 2010
Atom Smasher Exposes Hole in Earth’s Defenses
by Kevin Hassett
Bloomberg.com
January 11, 2010
The Case of the Collider and the Great Black Hole
physics arXiv blog
MIT Technology Review
January 5, 2010
PROJECTS

Konomark
A new way to be friendly with your intellectual property.
Willing to share it? Konomark it! The konomark is a symbol that invites people to ask to use your copyrighted work for free.

Copysquare
A new license for the DIY media revolution.
Copysquare is a new licensing scheme to encourage the sharing of stock footage, sound effects, and other media workparts.

Museum of Intellectual Property
The tangible history of intangible property.
The MOIP's mission is to collect and display physical artifacts from the cases that define the law of copyright, patent, trademark, and other fields.

WYPADKIS
Torts Wypadki
Torts Wypadki
A wiki-powered collaborative class outline covering negligence, strict liability, intentional torts, economic torts, and more
Intellectual Property Wypadki
Intellectual Property Wypadki
A wiki-powered collaborative class outline covering copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, and more
Entertainment Law Wypadki
Media & Entertainment Law Wypadki
A wiki-powered collaborative class outline covering defamation, agency regulation, reality-television waivers, film deals, literary property, indemnification, entertaiment unions, idea submission, fair use, and more
BLOGS
Blog Law Blog
Pixelization
The Backbencher
POSTERS
Intellectual Property and Disability poster

Wypadki poster

ARTICLES
A Populist Manifesto for Learning the Law, 60 Journal of Legal Education 41 (2010) [pdf]
Intellectual Property's Need for a Disability Perspective, 20 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 181 (2010) [pdf]
The Black-Hole Case: The Injunction Against the End of the World, 76 Tennessee Law Review 819 (2009) [arXiv abstract] [article pdf]
Rethinking Sharing Licenses for the Entertainment Media, 26 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 391 (2008) [extended abstract pdf] [article pdf]
Calibrating Patent Lifetimes, 22 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 269 (2006) [article pdf]
Negligence's X Factor, __ Cardozo Law Review de novo __ (forthcoming)
The Covert Life of Trade Secrets, 33 Hamline Law Review __ (forthcoming symposium issue)

CONTACT
Professor Eric E. Johnson
University of North Dakota School of Law
215 Centennial Drive Stop 9003
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9003
E-mail: ejohnson@law.und.edu
Phone: 1-701-777-2264
Fall semester office hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays
10:10 to 10:40 a.m.
or by appointment
Law Building, Room 304
 PHOTOS
www.flickr.com