Kristelia García
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building Room
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 425
E-mail: kristelia.garcia@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Personal Link: Bio:In addition to teaching at the University of Colorado Law School, Professor García serves as Director of the Intellectual Property Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, where she hosts an annual copyright conference. Her research is focused on the intersection of intellectual property and economics, with a particular focus on competition and private ordering. Her work has been published in the New York University Law Review, and the California Law Review, among others.
Prior to joining Colorado Law, Professor García was a visiting associate professor and the Frank H. Marks Fellow in Intellectual Property at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. She is also an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. As a practicing lawyer, Professor García worked in the music industry in Los Angeles; first at Quinn Emanuel as outside counsel to Napster, then as Director of Business Development in charge of content licensing at MySpace Music, and most recently in digital strategy as Director at Universal Music Group. Prior to her work in music, she was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York.
Professor García earned her BA in Economics at Columbia University, and her JD at Yale Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. She is a member of the American Law and Economics Association and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies.
Forthcoming
| The Emperor's New Copyright, B.U. L. REV.____ (forthcoming 2023). |
Articles
| Authoring Prior Art, 75 VAND. L. REV.1159 (2022) (with Joseph Fishman). |
| Pay-to-Playlist: The Commerce of Streaming, 12 UC IRVINE L. REV. 805 (2022) (with Christopher Buccafusco). |
| Copyright and Economic Viability: Evidence from the Music Industry, 17 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUD. 4 (2020) (with James Hicks and Justin McCrary). |
| Super-Statutory Contracting, 95 WASHINGTON L. REV. 101 (2020). |
| Monetizing Infringement, 54 UC DAVIS L. REV. 265 (2020). |
| Copyright Arbitrage, 107 CALIF. L. REV. 199 (2019). |
| A Reconsideration of Copyright's Term, 71 ALABAMA L. REV. 351 (2019) (with Justin McCrary). |
| Facilitating Competition by Remedial Regulation, 31 BERKELEY TECH. L. J. 183 (2016). |
| Penalty Default Licenses: A Case for Uncertainty, 89 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1117 (2014). |
| Private Copyright Reform, 20 MICH. TELECOMM. & TECH. L. REV. 1 (2013). |
Book Chapters
| Contracts v. Copyright: Contemporary Musician Income Streams, (forthcoming chapter in Oxford Handbook of Music Law & Policy, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2020). |
Online Essays
| Improving the Quality & Consistency of Copyright Infringement Analysis in Music, BERKELEY TECH. L.J. COMMENTARIES (Jan. 23, 2018). |
| Technological Rights Accretion, 36 YALE J. ON REG.: NOTICE & COMMENT (Sept. 19, 2018). |
| Royalty Securitization, HARVARD J. LAW & TECH. DIGEST (Oct. 23, 2017). |
Courses:
| Fall 2022 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Trademark and Unfair Competition Law | LAWS 7341-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Property | LAWS 5624-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Seminar: Special Topics in Intellectual Property | LAWS 8036-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Trademark and Unfair Competition Law | LAWS 7341-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Trademark and Unfair Competition Law | LAWS 7341-801 |
| Fall 2018 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-802 |
| Fall 2018 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-901 |
| Spring 2018 | Property | LAWS 5624-803 |
| Spring 2018 | Seminar: Special Topics in Intellectual Property | LAWS 8036-801 |
| Fall 2017 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-801 |
| Spring 2017 | Property | LAWS 5624-803 |
| Spring 2017 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-001 |
| Spring 2016 | Property | LAWS 5624-801 |
| Spring 2016 | Copyright | LAWS 7301-001 |
| Fall 2015 | Trademark and Unfair Competition Law | LAWS 7341-001 |
| Spring 2015 | Property | LAWS 5624-801 |
| Fall 2014 | Trademark and Unfair Competition Law | LAWS 7341-001 |