Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer Jenkins is a Clinical Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where she has taught for over 20 years. Her courses include Intellectual Property, Music Copyright, and Trademark Law. She is also the Director of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain and writes its annual Public Domain Day article, which is featured in hundreds of news stories each year. She is the author of the book "Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture" (2nd edition 2026; 1st edition from Oxford University Press 2025). She is the co-author (with James Boyle) of "Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials" (6th ed, 2024) and two comic books – "Theft! A History of Music," a 2000-year history of musical borrowing and regulation and "Bound By Law?", which covers copyright, fair use and documentary film. Her articles include "Mark of the Devil: The University as Brand Bully." In practice, Jenkins worked on numerous copyright cases, including defending the suit against a parody of Gone With the Wind.