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The Second Circuit And The Development Of Intellectual Property Law: The First 125 Years, Kenneth A. Plevan

Fordham Law Review

The Second Circuit has had a profound impact on copyright law. Judge Learned Hand’s decision in Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp. helped define for later generations the fundamental idea/expression dichotomy. The transformative use doctrine has not been without its critics, but other leading decisions have helped write the rules of the road for the e-commerce era, both in the copyright and trademark contexts, as well as the right of publicity, albeit a creation of state statutory law, is generally considered an area of intellectual property and is covered in this article. Law school catalogs usually include trade secret law within …