The Intellectual Property Law Society at Cardozo School of Law kicked off its annual program by inviting former faculty member William F. Patry, now Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, to give a lunchtime talk based on his new book - 'Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars' (Oxford University Press). Patry is one of the most prolific writers around on the copyright topic having authored the 7-volume "Patry on Copyright" - a definitive work. In the new book he argues that copyright is a utilitarian government program - not a property or moral right. As a government program, copyright must be regulated and held accountable to ensure it is effectively serving its public purpose. The talk was descriptive rather than prescriptive but served to delineate anomalous areas deserving of fixes. Patry also professed a fondness for the simpler schemas of the 1909 act.