Distinguished Lecture in Copyright Law
November 2, 2016
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall
Snacks provided by Career Services
Ralph Oman
U.S. Register of Copyrights (1985-1993)
"Congress and Copyright: How Our Laws Are Made"
Oman served as the U.S. Register of Copyrights from 1985 to 1993. Before then, he served as the chief counsel to the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the chief minority counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Patent, Copyrights, and Trademarks. During his tenure, Oman helped draft the language and negotiate the compromises that resulted in the passage of the 1976 Copyright Act, the current copyright statute. After retiring from federal service in 1993, Oman entered private practice. He now serves as Pravel, Hewitt, Kimball and Kreiger Professorial Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Patent Law at The George Washington University Law School.