Guy A. Rub
Education and Experience
- BA, Tel-Aviv University
- LLB, Tel-Aviv University
- MA, University of Madrid
- LLM, University of Michigan
- SJD, University of Michigan
Biography
Guy A. Rub is an expert in the intersection between intellectual property law, commercial law, the arts, and economic theory. At Moritz, Professor Rub holds the Joanne Wharton Murphy/Class of 1965 and 1973 Professorship in Law and regularly teaches Copyright Law, Trademark Law, Contracts, and Law and Economics.
Professor Rub’s scholarship explores how markets shape and are being shaped by intellectual property law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, NYU Law Review Online, and Virginia Law Review, among others. He presented his work extensively both domestically and abroad.
Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Professor Rub was an associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. He worked as a software programmer and engineer prior to pursuing a career in law.
Professor Rub has served in various leadership roles within and outside the university. He was twice elected as the chair of Ohio State’s IP Committee. Under his leadership, the university rewrote its IP policy for the first time in 30 years. He currently serves on the University’s Senate and the Faculty’s Cabinet. Professor Rub also formerly chaired the Intellectual Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools.
Open Source Contracts: A Free Casebook (forthcoming 2023).
Against Copyright Customization, 107 Iowa L. Rev. 677 (2021)
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Owning Nothingness: Between the Legal and the Social Norms of the Art World, 2019 BYU L. Rev. 1147 (2020)
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Amazon and the New World of Publishing, 14 ISJLP 367 (2018)
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A Less-Formalistic Copyright Preemption, 24 J. Intell. Prop. L. 327 (2018)
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Copyright Survives: Rethinking the Copyright-Contract Conflict, 103 Va. L. Rev. 1141 (2017)
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Copyright's Framing Problem, 64 UCLA L. Rev. 1102 (2017)
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Rebalancing Copyright Exhaustion, 64 Emory L.J. 741 (2015)
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The Unconvincing Case for Resale Royalties, 124 Yale L.J.F. 1 (2014)
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