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Transcript: Opening Remarks, Peter Jaszi
Transcript: Opening Remarks, Peter Jaszi
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Review Of The 2006 Trademark Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Christine Haight Farley, Geri L. Haight
Review Of The 2006 Trademark Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Christine Haight Farley, Geri L. Haight
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit delivered only seven precedential trademark opinions in 2006. The Court addressed a range of substantive issues including trade dress configuration, reverse passing off, and genericism. Notably, two of the seven precedential decisions involved plant names protected by the Plant Variety Protection Act. The Court decided only one case in 2006 where the primary issue was procedural, rather than substantive. In that case, the Court sided with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and affirmed its decision on the applicability of the res judicata doctrine. In 2006, as in previous years, …
Transcript: Introduction To The Third Annual Ip/Gender: The Unmapped Connections Symposium, Victoria F. Phillips
Transcript: Introduction To The Third Annual Ip/Gender: The Unmapped Connections Symposium, Victoria F. Phillips
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Copyright, Fair Use And Motion Pictures, Peter Jaszi
Copyright, Fair Use And Motion Pictures, Peter Jaszi
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Within copyright law, the tension between contemporary creators' needs for access to preexisting material, on the one hand, and the imperatives of copyright ownership, on the other, are mediated primarily by the so-called "fair use" doctrine. The application of this venerable legal concept, which exempts some substantial takings of protected content from infringement liability, is the subject of this essay.