Biography

Julie is the Associate Director of the Fair Use Project. She represents writers, filmmakers, musicians, and others who rely on fair use in creating their art, documentaries, scholarship, critiques, or comments.

Before joining Stanford, Julie was a litigation attorney in the San Francisco office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where, among other matters, she was the lead attorney defending the musician and electronic composer, BT, in a copyright infringement case in the Southern District of New York. She has litigated a variety of matters in the state and federal courts of California and New York.

In the News

• Woman Fined $1.92M For Sharing Music Online
  KCBS Radio 740 , June 19, 2009

Courses & Programs

Programs

• Fair Use Project, Associate Director, Fair Use Project

Publications & Cases

• Anthony Falzone, Julie A. Ahrens, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson, Mark Lemley, et. al., Brief of Amici Curiae The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., The Andy Warhol Museum, Thomas Lawson, Barbara Kruger, Jonathan Monk, Allen Ruppersberg and Eleven Professors of Law in Support of Defendant-Appellee and Urging Affirmance: Gaylord v. United States, No. 2009-5044 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (July 15, 2009).
• Anthony Falzone, Julie A. Ahrens, Sarah H. Pearson, et. al., Brief of Amici Curiae American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Association of College and Research Libraries, The Organization for Transformative Works and the Right to Write Fund in Support of Defendants-Appellants and Urging Reversal: Salinger v. Colting, No. 09-2878 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (August 3, 2009).