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Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, And Unfair Competition, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law
Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, And Unfair Competition, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law
Continuing Legal Education Materials
Materials from the conference on Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Unfair Competition held by UK/CLE in October 2001.
Introduction: From Sheet Music To Mp3 Files—A Brief Perspective On Napster, Harold R. Weinberg
Introduction: From Sheet Music To Mp3 Files—A Brief Perspective On Napster, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The Napster case is the current cause celebre of the digital age. The story has color. It involves music-sharing technology invented by an eighteen-year-old college dropout whose high school classmates nicknamed him "The Napster" on account of his perpetually kinky hair. The story has drama. Depending on your perspective, it pits rapacious big music companies against poor and hardworking students who just want to enjoy some tunes; or it pits creative and industrious music companies seeking a fair return on their invested effort, time, and money against greedy and irreverent music thieves. And the case has importance. Music maybe intellectual …
Trademark Law, Functional Design Features, And The Trouble With Traffix, Harold R. Weinberg
Trademark Law, Functional Design Features, And The Trouble With Traffix, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article concerns trademark law's functionality doctrine and the Supreme Court's troublesome opinion concerning it in TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. The doctrine provides that if a producer's useful or aesthetic design feature is "functional," then competitors can lawfully copy it even if the feature otherwise would be protected against copying by trademark principles. In order to introduce the functionality doctrine and the trouble with TrafFix, it is helpful to describe the nature of design features, the simultaneous roles they may play as source-identifying trade symbols and as useful or aesthetic product elements, and trademark law's place …
Pharmaceutical Patent Protection: More Generic Favored Legislation May Cause Pioneer Drug Companies To Pull The Plug On Innovation, Mandy Wilson
Kentucky Law Journal
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Who Said Nothing In This World Is Free? A&M Records, Inc. V. Napster, Inc.: Problems Presented, Solutions Explored, And Answers Posed, Ryan C. Edwards
Who Said Nothing In This World Is Free? A&M Records, Inc. V. Napster, Inc.: Problems Presented, Solutions Explored, And Answers Posed, Ryan C. Edwards
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
From Sheet Music To Mp3 Files--A Brief Perspective On Napster, Harold R. Weinberg
From Sheet Music To Mp3 Files--A Brief Perspective On Napster, Harold R. Weinberg
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Pushing The Limits Of Copyright Law And Upping The Ante In The Digital World: The Strange Case Of A&M Records, Inc. V. Napster, Inc., Shawn D. Chapman
Pushing The Limits Of Copyright Law And Upping The Ante In The Digital World: The Strange Case Of A&M Records, Inc. V. Napster, Inc., Shawn D. Chapman
Kentucky Law Journal
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Lessons From The Anticommons: The Economics Of New York Times Co. V. Tasini, Francesco Parisi, Catherine Ševčenko
Lessons From The Anticommons: The Economics Of New York Times Co. V. Tasini, Francesco Parisi, Catherine Ševčenko
Kentucky Law Journal
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