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Tiktok And The Music Business, Cardozo Fame Center, Cardozo Entertainment Law Society Oct 2020

Tiktok And The Music Business, Cardozo Fame Center, Cardozo Entertainment Law Society

Event Invitations 2020

Cardozo School of Law's Entertainment Law Society and FAME Center welcomes music industry lawyers on both the artist and label sides and copyright and privacy law professors to discuss the impacts of the popularization of TikTok on artist development, music licensing, and copyright law.


Bridging Race + Ip: The Challenges And Potential Of Utilizing Transdisciplinary Methods To Undo The Unbearable Whiteness Of Intellectual Property, Deidre Keller Jan 2020

Bridging Race + Ip: The Challenges And Potential Of Utilizing Transdisciplinary Methods To Undo The Unbearable Whiteness Of Intellectual Property, Deidre Keller

Faculty Books and Book Contributions

This chapter is part of Approaches and Methodologies in Intellectual Property Research edited by Irene Calboli and Maria Lilla.


Copyright Law: An Open Source Casebook, Gary Myers Apr 2019

Copyright Law: An Open Source Casebook, Gary Myers

Open Educational Resources

Copyright Law is an open access casebook available for free to students. This edition was published in Spring 2019.


The Liberty To Copy Unpatented Inventions, Boston University, Wendy J. Gordon Oct 2017

The Liberty To Copy Unpatented Inventions, Boston University, Wendy J. Gordon

BU Law Presentations

Poster for Wendy Gordon's 2017 University Lecture


Copyright: Walking The Tightrope, Bethany Kenyon, Elizabeth Dyer Oct 2016

Copyright: Walking The Tightrope, Bethany Kenyon, Elizabeth Dyer

Library Services Faculty Posters

Librarians often struggle with copyright questions from patrons. After winning a copyright consultation with copyright specialist Barbara Ingrassia during the 2015 North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries (NAHSL) Scholarship Raffle, UNE librarians decided it was high time to conquer our fears and create a tool to help with the balancing act that is Fair Use. This poster describes the development and promotion of a Fair Use Checklist.


Territorial Exclusivity In U.S. Copyright And Trademark Law, Christine Haight Farley Jan 2014

Territorial Exclusivity In U.S. Copyright And Trademark Law, Christine Haight Farley

Contributions to Books

Currently, U.S. trademark and copyright law both adopt employ a regime of international exhaustion of rights with respect to parallel importation after the Supreme Court ruled in Kirtsaeng last term. This agreement belies the fact that these two areas of law have developed in nearly divergent directions and have resulted in faltering intellectual property and trade policies. Currently, interpretation of the first sale doctrine hinges on the particular legal characteristics of both trademarks and copyrights. When dealing with trademarks, courts ultimately focus on the source of origin, taking into account consumer expectations or, instead, focusing on the business relationship, if …


Safe To Be Open: Study On The Protection Of Research Data And Recommendations For Access And Usage, Lucie Guibault, Andreas Wiebe Jan 2013

Safe To Be Open: Study On The Protection Of Research Data And Recommendations For Access And Usage, Lucie Guibault, Andreas Wiebe

Books

Openness has become a common concept in a growing number of scientific and academic fields. Expressions such as Open Access (OA) or Open Content (OC) are often employed for publications of papers and research results, or are contained as conditions in tenders issued by a number of funding agencies. More recently the concept of Open Data (OD) is of growing interest in some fields, particularly those that produce large amounts of data – which are not usually protected by standard legal tools such as copyright. However, a thorough understanding of the meaning of Openness – especially its legal implications – …


Generation Mixtape: A User's Guide To Online Copyright, Matthew D. Catania, Gaetano D. Marretta Jan 2011

Generation Mixtape: A User's Guide To Online Copyright, Matthew D. Catania, Gaetano D. Marretta

Tribeca Square Press

In conjunction with the Program in Law and Journalism at New York Law School, Tribeca Square Press publishes a monograph series, Legal Backgrounders, to provide those who regularly report on law and the legal profession, including print and broadcast reporters, editorial writers, bloggers, and editors, with concise, objective, timely, and readable information on legal topics currently in the news. Monographs in this series are not intended to advocate legal or policy positions but to describe and summarize the state of the law. An electronic version of each Legal Backgrounder, including links to sources, will be available on the Tribeca Square …


Unravelling The Myth Around Open Source Licences - An Analysis From A Dutch And European Law Perspective, Lucie Guibault, Ot Van Daalen Jan 2006

Unravelling The Myth Around Open Source Licences - An Analysis From A Dutch And European Law Perspective, Lucie Guibault, Ot Van Daalen

Books

Open source software licences are based on two fundamental principles: the possibility for users to use the software for any purpose and the possibility to modify and redistribute it without prior authorisation from the initial developer. Some open source software licences, like the General Public Licence (GPL), also impose a corollary obligation on the licensee: to make the source code available to other developers. The idea behind this form of licensing is that when programmers can read, redistribute and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. A number of legal challenges need to be addressed …