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Fairness, Copyright, And Video Games: Hate The Game, Not The Player, Shani Shisha
Fairness, Copyright, And Video Games: Hate The Game, Not The Player, Shani Shisha
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Creative communities often rely on social norms to regulate the production of creative content. Yet while an emerging body of literature has focused on isolated accounts of social norms operating in discrete, small-scale creative industries, no research to date has explored the social norms that pervade the world’s largest content microcosm—the sprawling video game community.
Now a veritable global phenomenon, the video game industry has recently grown to eclipse the music and motion picture industries. But despite its meteoric rise, the video game industry has provoked little attention from copyright scholars. This Article is the first to explore the shifting …
Trademark Cosmopolitanism, Sonia K. Katyal
Trademark Cosmopolitanism, Sonia K. Katyal
Faculty Scholarship
The world of global trademarks can be characterized in terms of three major shifts: first, a shift from national to global branding strategies; second, a shift from national and regional systems to harmonized international regimes governing trademark law; and third, a concurrent shift from local to transnational social movements that challenge branding and other corporate practices. The rise of transnational brands brings with it an attendant series of legal shifts in trademark law. Long considered the stepchild of intellectual property law, today, trademark law has morphed into a powerful global legal phenomenon, revealing a foundational shift from national and regional …
Regulating Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: Protecting The Consumer Without Quashing A Medical Revolution, Jennifer A. Gniady
Regulating Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: Protecting The Consumer Without Quashing A Medical Revolution, Jennifer A. Gniady
Fordham Law Review
This Note examines the existing gaps in regulating genetic tests that are sold directly to consumers and the arguments for and against greater regulation. It advocates adopting an approach that shores up existing regulation of the accuracy of genetic tests under the Food and Drug Administration and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment, while continuing to promote an open market for selling tests directly to consumers. The Note looks to a variety of additional mechanisms for providing further consumer protections such as incentives for voluntary participation in the Food and Drug Administration approval process, an expanded watchdog role for professional organizations, and …
Panel Discussion, Consumer Bankruptcy, Edith Jones, Jane Mcnamara, Karen Gross, Henry Hilderbrand, Michael Mceneney
Panel Discussion, Consumer Bankruptcy, Edith Jones, Jane Mcnamara, Karen Gross, Henry Hilderbrand, Michael Mceneney
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Share Repurchases Under Modern Corporation Laws, Robert A. Kessler
Share Repurchases Under Modern Corporation Laws, Robert A. Kessler
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.