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Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (Tmdr): Opportunities And Dangers, David Allen Larson
Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (Tmdr): Opportunities And Dangers, David Allen Larson
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Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (TMDR) presents opportunities and dangers that we cannot yet fully envision. Technologies are available or imminent, such as tele-immersion, that will dramatically change the ways we think about dispute resolution in a virtual environment. Whether or not one finds the idea of TMDR appealing, a generation of teens and preteens is integrating technology so deeply into their daily lives that they not only will expect, but will demand, that those technologies be used in a dispute resolution proceeding. Because girls communicate differently than boys when using technology, it will be interesting to learn if women prove …
What The Right Of Publicity Can Learn From Trademark Law, Stacey Dogan
What The Right Of Publicity Can Learn From Trademark Law, Stacey Dogan
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The right of publicity gives people the right to control the use of their name and likeness for commercial purposes. For years, courts have struggled to make sense of two dimensions of this right - what it means to use a name or likeness commercially, and what aspect of a person's likeness are protected against appropriation. In the absence of any clear theoretical foundation for the right of publicity, the meanings of these terms have steadily swelled, to the point at which virtually any use that brings financial benefit to someone by referencing an individual qualifies as a violation of …
The Morality Of Evolutionarily Self-Interested Rescues, Bailey Kuklin
The Morality Of Evolutionarily Self-Interested Rescues, Bailey Kuklin
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Martha Graham, Professor Miller And The Work For Hire Doctrine, Nancy Kim
Martha Graham, Professor Miller And The Work For Hire Doctrine, Nancy Kim
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The current work for hire doctrine, as embodied by 17 U.S.C. Sections 101 and 201 and interpreted by the judiciary, provides a default rule of copyright ownership in favor of employers where a work is created by an employee in the scope of employment. In the absence of a written agreement, a finding that an engagement is a work for hire under the statute automatically results in all ownership being vested in the employer. This result often contradicts business norms and the understanding of one or both of the parties. In this Article, I advocate abolishing the all-or-nothing concept of …