Rate My Professor Christopher Sprigman

Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, torts, and comparative constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation, particularly in the domains of antitrust, comparative constitutional law, copyright, intellectual property, law and economics, patents, and trademarks. Key publications include the open-licensed textbook Antitrust: Principles, Cases, and Materials (third edition, with Daniel Francis, 2023); Copyright Law: Cases and Materials (version 7.0, with Jeanne C. Fromer); The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design (Virginia Law Review, 2006, with Kal Raustiala); The Creativity Effect (University of Chicago Law Review, 2011, with Christopher Buccafusco); Copyright and the Rule of Reason (Colorado Technology Law Journal, 2009); and Copyright, Meet Antitrust: The Supreme Court's Warhol Decision and the Rise of Competition Analysis in Fair Use (Yale Law Journal Forum, 2025). Sprigman is the Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law, Copyright, the organization's first restatement of copyright law. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons from 2013 to 2016 and is a founding member of Lex Lumina PLLC. His work has influenced discussions on intellectual property incentives, empirical approaches to copyright valuation, and the intersection of antitrust and fair use doctrines.