how do you cite nimmer on copyright? Forum

[Anomaly]

Is it just:

Melville B. Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright, §8D.06[A][2]

or just: Nimmer on Copyright, §8D.06[A][2]

Thanks.

[Cupidity]

Nimmer on Copyright, §8D.06[A][2]

But I could be wrong.

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Look in the bluebook. It's like any book but the page cite will be §8D.06, at page XX. Nimmer may no longer be the editor. Many of the old guys have died.

[Black-Blue]

Melville B. Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright, §8D.06[A][2]

Even if the author's name is in the title, you still put the author name in front of the title.

Also, since Nimmer is organized by section numbers, you don't cite page numbers, but the section number.

[Cupidity]

Melville B. Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright, §8D.06[A][2]

Even if the author's name is in the title, you still put the author name in front of the title.

Also, since Nimmer is organized by section numbers, you don't cite page numbers, but the section number.

I think Nimmer may actually be a special rule, like the way you cite Black's differently than a standard dictionary.

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Melville B. Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright, §8D.06[A][2]

Even if the author's name is in the title, you still put the author name in front of the title.

Also, since Nimmer is organized by section numbers, you don't cite page numbers, but the section number.

I think Nimmer may actually be a special rule, like the way you cite Black's differently than a standard dictionary.

It's not. It's a treatise, like Prosser & Keeton on Torts and a million others. While it's widely cited, the BB doesn't treat different based upon how much its used or how reliable it is. Dictionaries are different because we don't care which 1,200 people edited them.

Multivolume set of legal treatises

Put volume number followed by a space at very beginning.

2 Melville B. Nimmer & David Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright § 7.26 (1992)

Although, while not required...the page number should be supplied as permitted.

[Cupidity]

Upon further review, blowhard is right. I was an RA for a Copyright Prof., and it appears that her method of citing Nimmer in her papers was idiosyncratic.

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Upon further review, blowhard is right. I was an RA for a Copyright Prof., and it appears that her method of citing Nimmer in her papers was idiosyncratic.

If there is one thing I learned on LR, its that profs suck at bluebooking and simply don't care. It all gets fixed on our end during citechecking. Hell, I'd be happy to get the correct book, §, and page number.