{"id":40,"date":"2020-05-11T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cornell-law-review.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:20:48","slug":"cornell-law-review-online","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/cornell-law-review-online\/","title":{"rendered":"CLR Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Volume 111<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!-- NOTE: If you need to make changes to this file, copy it to your current theme's main\n\tdirectory so your changes won't be overwritten when the plugin is upgraded. -->\n\n<!-- Post Wrap Start-->\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/2026\/02\/26\/copyrights-invisible-hand-subsidizing-americas-cultural-institutions\/\">Copyright\u2019s Invisible Hand: Subsidizing America\u2019s Cultural Institutions<\/a><\/h4>\n  <div class=\"author\"><p><strong>Guy A. Rub<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vincent J. Marella Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n  <p><p>The doctrine of copyright exhaustion conceals a substantial and underappreciated subsidy at the heart of American copyright law. For more than a century, it has operated as a deliberate congressional scheme transferring billions of dollars in value to cultural institutions, such as libraries, museums, and galleries. This Essay reconceptualizes copyright law as a system of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<!-- \/\/ Post Wrap End -->\n\n<!-- NOTE: If you need to make changes to this file, copy it to your current theme's main\n\tdirectory so your changes won't be overwritten when the plugin is upgraded. -->\n\n<!-- Post Wrap Start-->\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/2026\/02\/26\/the-beginnings-of-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-placing-the-2017-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-in-historical-perspective\/\">The Beginnings Of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Placing The 2017 Tax Cuts And Jobs Act In Historical Perspective<\/a><\/h4>\n  <div class=\"author\"><p><strong>Amanda Borwegen &amp; Ajay K. Mehrotra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">J.D. 2025, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; B.A. 2019, Washington &amp; Jefferson College. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; Affiliated Professor of History, Northwestern University; and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2025 American Association of Law School Conference. We thank the participants at that conference for their useful feedback, and to those colleagues and friends who reviewed and discussed drafts of this essay including Jennifer Bird-Pollan, Ari Glogower, Christopher Hanna, Andy Koppelman, Philip Postlewaite, Samy Abdelsalam, and Maggie Amen. We are grateful to Noah Taran for excellent research assistance, and to Jeena Patel and the staff of the Cornell Law Review for their assistance. All errors, of course, remain our own.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n  <p><p>On July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). This new law was built on the foundations of its immediate predecessor, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This Essay examines the historical roots and contemporary implications of these two laws. 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