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Once And Future Copyright, James Gibson
Once And Future Copyright, James Gibson
Law Faculty Publications
Copyright is like a well-meaning but ultimately bothersome friend, eager to help but nearly impossible to get rid of. It attaches indiscriminately to the simplest acts of expression, without regard for whether the author needs or wants its protection. This automatic propertization made sense in the print era, when mass distribution of information was an expensive process rarely undertaken by those with no plans to profit from their creativity. It makes little sense today. The following article shows that copyright's overly solicitous nature is the source of several seemingly unrelated and intractable problems - e.g., closed code, copyright as censorship, …
Initial Interest Confusion: Standing At The Crossroads Of Trademark Law, Jennifer E. Rothman
Initial Interest Confusion: Standing At The Crossroads Of Trademark Law, Jennifer E. Rothman
All Faculty Scholarship
While the benchmark of trademark infringement traditionally has been a demonstration that consumers are likely to be confused by the use of a similar or identical trademark to identify the goods or services of another, a court-created doctrine called initial interest confusion allows liability for trademark infringement solely on the basis that a consumer might initially be interested, attracted, or distracted by a competitor's, or even a non-competitor's, product or service. Initial interest confusion is being used with increasing frequency, especially on the Internet, to shut down speech critical of trademark holders and their products and services, to prevent comparative …
Not All Bad: An Historical Perspective On Software Patents, Martin Campbell-Kelly
Not All Bad: An Historical Perspective On Software Patents, Martin Campbell-Kelly
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
This Paper places the current debates about software patents in the historical context of patenting in the information technology industries. The first computer-program products were sold in the mid 1960s when software patents were not generally allowed; as a result, trade secrecy became endemic to the software industry. Software products were also protected by copyright, but in practice this offered little protection against most forms of appropriation by reverse engineering or cloning. By the early 1980s a series of landmark cases led to the acceptance of software patents. It is argued that this development was consistent with the patenting of …
Random Numbers, Chaos Theory, And Cogitation: A Search For The Minimal Creativity Standard In Copyright Law, Ralph D. Clifford
Random Numbers, Chaos Theory, And Cogitation: A Search For The Minimal Creativity Standard In Copyright Law, Ralph D. Clifford
Faculty Publications
This article explores the second type of expressive work, those where there is a question if the author’s contribution is qualitatively sufficient, to determine how much creativity and of what type is required to sustain a copyright. Initially, the historic standards of creativity use before Fiest was decided in 1991 will be presented. Then, after a brief discussion of Fiest, the scientific basis of creativity will be explored. Next, the confusion regarding creativity that exists in the lower courts will serve to expose the source of misapplication of the law – a disconnect between how courts perceive creativity and …
An Umbrella Or A Canopy?: Why The 17 U.S.C. Section 512(A) Safe Harbor Should Be Read Broadly, Sven Skillrud
An Umbrella Or A Canopy?: Why The 17 U.S.C. Section 512(A) Safe Harbor Should Be Read Broadly, Sven Skillrud
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
With technology constantly changing, the interaction between copyright law and technology is always at odds, especially since the evolution of the Internet. To keep up with the ever-changing Internet, Congress enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; specifically, it created four safe harbors that are intended to protect entities from copyright infringement that qualify as online service providers. However, it seems that the courts have had trouble interpreting who is covered under these safe harbors, namely, as to what entities qualify under the first safe harbor "Transitory Digital Network Communications." There are only a few cases where entities have qualified under …
A Comparative Analysis Of The Impact Of Experimental Use Exemptions In Patent Law On Incentives To Innovate, Kevin Iles
A Comparative Analysis Of The Impact Of Experimental Use Exemptions In Patent Law On Incentives To Innovate, Kevin Iles
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Preserving Internet Expression While Protecting Our Children: Solutions Following Ashcroft V. Aclu, Steven E. Merlis
Preserving Internet Expression While Protecting Our Children: Solutions Following Ashcroft V. Aclu, Steven E. Merlis
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
High Plains Drifting: Wind-Blown Seeds And The Intellectual Property Implications Of The Gmo Revolution, Stephanie M. Bernhardt
High Plains Drifting: Wind-Blown Seeds And The Intellectual Property Implications Of The Gmo Revolution, Stephanie M. Bernhardt
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
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In-Line Or Insane? The Federal Circuit's Recent Interpretation Of Festo In Honeywell V. Hamilton Sundstrand, Justin E. Gray
In-Line Or Insane? The Federal Circuit's Recent Interpretation Of Festo In Honeywell V. Hamilton Sundstrand, Justin E. Gray
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Free Radicals In Cyberspace: Complex Liability Issues In Information Warfare, Meiring De Villiers
Free Radicals In Cyberspace: Complex Liability Issues In Information Warfare, Meiring De Villiers
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Pharmacogenomics: Privacy In The Era Of Personalized Medicine, Berrie Rebecca Goldman
Pharmacogenomics: Privacy In The Era Of Personalized Medicine, Berrie Rebecca Goldman
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.