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Are Legal Restrictions On Disparaging Personal Names Unconstitutional? In Re The Slants, Laura A. Heymann, Eric Goldman
Are Legal Restrictions On Disparaging Personal Names Unconstitutional? In Re The Slants, Laura A. Heymann, Eric Goldman
Popular Media
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More Than Ip: Trademark Among The Consumer Information Laws, Michael Grynberg
More Than Ip: Trademark Among The Consumer Information Laws, Michael Grynberg
William & Mary Law Review
Part I begins the inquiry by describing trademark’s connection with other consumer information laws. In many cases optimal trademark policy—by whatever criteria—depends on the state of play in another regime. This complicates trademark’s development in multiple ways. It is not simply a problem of determining how another body of law treats the related issue. Identifying the relevant parallel regime is not always easy. Indeed, sometimes the laws most pertinent to the production of consumer information are more general in nature—think, for example, of the role that simple trespass law plays in determining what we know about how our meat is …
The Scope Of Trademark Law In The Age Of The Brand Persona, Laura A. Heymann
The Scope Of Trademark Law In The Age Of The Brand Persona, Laura A. Heymann
Faculty Publications
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A Name I Call Myself: Creativity And Naming, Laura A. Heymann
A Name I Call Myself: Creativity And Naming, Laura A. Heymann
Faculty Publications
In recent years, various disputes involving the use of creative works have demonstrated how trademark-related concerns lurk at the heart of what are ostensibly copyright-related claims. When recording artists such as Jackson Browne or the members of Heart object to the unauthorized use of their songs in connection with a political campaign, they are most likely not troubled about the loss of revenue resulting from the use; rather, they are likely concerned that the public will wrongly assume that the use of the song indicates that they have endorsed the political candidate. But because it is sometimes easier for them …
An Alternative Approach To Channeling?, Mark P. Mckenna
An Alternative Approach To Channeling?, Mark P. Mckenna
William & Mary Law Review
Intellectual property law has developed a variety of doctrines to police the boundaries between various forms of protection. Courts and scholars alike overwhelmingly conceive of these doctrines in terms of the nature of the objects of protection. The functionality doctrine in trademark law, for example, defines the boundary between trademark and patent law by identifying and refusing trademark protection to features that play a functional role in a product's performance. Likewise, the useful article doctrine works at the boundary of copyright and patent law to identify elements of an article's design that are dictated by function and to channel protection …
The Reasonable Person In Trademark Law, Laura A. Heymann
The Reasonable Person In Trademark Law, Laura A. Heymann
Faculty Publications
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Metabranding And Intermediation: A Response To Professor Fleischer, Laura A. Heymann
Metabranding And Intermediation: A Response To Professor Fleischer, Laura A. Heymann
Faculty Publications
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The Birth Of The Authornym: Authorship, Pseudonymity, And Trademark Law, Laura A. Heymann
The Birth Of The Authornym: Authorship, Pseudonymity, And Trademark Law, Laura A. Heymann
Faculty Publications
Consumers in the marketplace of ideas are well acquainted with one aspect of the Foucauldian concept of the "author function": the way in which an author's name serves to organize both producer inputs-the various works the author wishes to have associated with his name-and consumer inputs-the readers' interpretive reactions to any particular body of work. Indeed, choosing to write under a pseudonym or under one's true name is the way in which an author exerts control over this function by grouping certain works (for example, scholarly pieces) under one name and other works (for example, mystery novels) under a different …