Eric E. JohnsonAssistant Professor of Law  Eric E. Johnson teaches Torts, Intellectual Property, and Media & Entertainment Law. His primary scholarship interests are intellectual property and entertainment law. Two projects of Professor Johnson’s, Copysquare and Konomark, are designed to encourage the sharing of copyrighted works on the internet. Professor Johnson received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2000, where he was a member of the Board of Student Advisers and an instructor in legal reasoning and argument. He received his B.A. from the Plan II program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. After law school, Professor Johnson was an associate in the litigation and intellectual-property litigation practices at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, where his clients included Paramount, MTV, CBS, Touchstone, Immersion Corporation, and the bankruptcy estate of eToys.com. At Irell, Johnson’s matters included claims of patent infringement in the video-game industry, copyright infringement of a television series, breach of a motion-picture director’s contract, and breach of a profit-participation clause in a television executive-producer’s contract. Professor Johnson later became in-house counsel to Fox Cable Networks in Los Angeles, drafting and negotiating deals for Fox Sports Net (“FSN”) and Fox College Sports. Outside of his legal career, Professor Johnson was a top-40 radio disc jockey, a stand-up comic, and a consultant at an early-stage internet start-up. In 2005, he was awarded a patent on a headrest he invented for patients suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. Before joining the UND faculty, Johnson taught as an adjunct professor at Whittier Law School and the Pepperdine University School of Law, teaching Patent Law, Trademarks, and Entertainment Law. Professor Johnson authors two blogs, Pixelization, concerning intellectual property and entertainment law, and The Backbencher, a humorous take on the law, lawyering, and life as a law professor. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC EXPERIENCEUniversity of North Dakota School of
Law Pepperdine
University
School of Law
Whittier Law School
Harvard Law School PUBLICATIONSRethinking Sharing Licenses for the Entertainment Media Calibrating Patent Lifetimes Lindstrom's Summary of Employment Law Reporter's Privilege, Communications Law
1999 (co-author) Reporter's Privilege, Recent Developments
1998-1999 (co-author) SCHOLARSHIP IN PROGRESSIntellectual Property and Disability The Secret Life of the Right of
Publicity EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONSHarvard Law School‚ J.D., cum laude, 2000 University of Texas at Austin‚ B.A.,
with
highest honors and special honors, 1994 Northwestern University‚ B.S.J.
candidate, 1990 to
1991 Admitted to Practice:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEFox Cable Networks Irell & Manella LLP Debevoise & Plimpton Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Macfarlanes Cybersource Corporation |
