Ralph S. Brown

Ralph Sharp Brown (1913–1998) was a law professor at Yale Law School from 1946 to 1983 and an expert on competition, copyright law, government security and individual rights.[1] After his 1983 retirement to emeritus status he taught at New York Law School until 1998. He was co-author, with Benjamin Kaplan of the Harvard Law School, of one of the first casebooks on copyright and unfair competition law.[2] Brown was also a recognized expert in legal rights and issues relating to defamation, privacy, and publicity.[3]

  1. ^ Holcomb B. Noble, Ralph S. Brown, 85, Professor And Expert on Copyright Law, N.Y.Times (July 1, 1998).
  2. ^ Benjamin Kaplan and Ralph S. Brown, Jr., Cases on Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Other Topics Bearing on the Protection of Literary, Musical, and Artistic Works (1960) (initial hardbound edition). There was a 1958 softcover edition. See Benjamin Kaplan, Ralph S. Brown, Jr.: The Copyright Connection, 93 Yale L.J. 1189, 1189 (1984). The latest edition is Ralph S. Brown and Robert C. Denicola, Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Related Topics (11th ed. 2013) ISBN 978-1609302399.
  3. ^ Yale News (June 19, 1998).