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Wiggle Room: Problems And Virtues Of The Inwood Standard, Rian C. Dawson
Wiggle Room: Problems And Virtues Of The Inwood Standard, Rian C. Dawson
Indiana Law Journal
This Note investigates the origins of Inwood that led to the slim opinion with wide influence. It argues that the very vagueness for which scholars and practitioners have decried Inwood is the case's greatest virtue: Inwood provides a flexible standard that has allowed the common law to evolve and address new business models. Part I discusses the origins of contributory infringement in intellectual property. Part II investigates the Inwood case and the climate of trademark law at the time Inwood was litigated. It also dissects the majority opinion and Justice White's concurrance. Part III examines the Inwood standard's evolution at …
Content-Based Copyright Denial, Ned Snow
Content-Based Copyright Denial, Ned Snow
Indiana Law Journal
No principle of First Amendment law is more firmly established than the principle that government may not restrict speech based on its content. It would seem to follow, then, that Congress may not withhold copyright protection for disfavored categories of content, such as violent video games or pornography. This Article argues otherwise. This Article is the first to recognize a distinction in the scope of coverage between the First Amendment and the Copyright Clause. It claims that speech protection from government censorship does not imply speech protection from private copying. Crucially, I argue that this distinction in the scope of …
The Federal Question In Patent-License Cases, Amelia Smith Rinehart
The Federal Question In Patent-License Cases, Amelia Smith Rinehart
Indiana Law Journal
The patent law has long recognized a patent owner’s ability to license some interest in the patent by granting to others permission to tread upon the patent owner’s property rights without legal consequence. When one of the parties to a patent license decides to seek remedies from the other party for a license harm, the resulting litigation may be a patent-infringement case with a contract issue or a contract case with a patent issue. In most cases, the patent owner brings her suit against the licensee in federal court, alleging that the licensee breached the license contract and, as a …
Patents Fettering Reproductive Rights, Scott A. Allen
Patents Fettering Reproductive Rights, Scott A. Allen
Indiana Law Journal
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