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International Copyright: An Unorthodox Analysis, Hugh C. Hansen
International Copyright: An Unorthodox Analysis, Hugh C. Hansen
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Professor Hansen reviews the development of copyright from its traditional domestic orientation to the modern emphasis on globalization and harmonization. His commentary analogizes modern trends in international copyright to religious equivalents. He notes that the current players include a “secular priesthood” (the traditional copyright bar and academics), “agnostics and atheists” (newer academics and lawyers, particularly those concerned with technology and the culture of the public domain) and “missionaries” (whose task it is to increase copyright protection around the world and who are primarily driven by trade considerations). The copyright “crusade” has been driven by this last group. The author compares …
Copyright In Europe: Twenty Years Ago, Today And What The Future Holds, P. Bernt Hugenholtz
Copyright In Europe: Twenty Years Ago, Today And What The Future Holds, P. Bernt Hugenholtz
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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Who Owns Your Body Art?: The Copyright And Constitutional Implications Of Tattoos, Meredith Hatic
Who Owns Your Body Art?: The Copyright And Constitutional Implications Of Tattoos, Meredith Hatic
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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I Do Not Endorse This Message! Does A Political Campaign’S Unauthorized Use Of A Song Infringe On The Rights Of The Musical Performer?, Kimberlianne Podlas
I Do Not Endorse This Message! Does A Political Campaign’S Unauthorized Use Of A Song Infringe On The Rights Of The Musical Performer?, Kimberlianne Podlas
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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Then, You Had It, Now It’S Gone: Interspousal Or Community Property Transfer And Termination Of An Illusory Ephemeral State Law Right Or Interest In Copyright, Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
Then, You Had It, Now It’S Gone: Interspousal Or Community Property Transfer And Termination Of An Illusory Ephemeral State Law Right Or Interest In Copyright, Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Often in the case of a marriage where one partner is a creative spouse, the primary marital asset is a body of copyrighted works. In 2013, author-spouses entered the period when they may begin to terminate any putative copyright transfer to the community property estate or terminate other transfers that may be the basis for prenuptial or postnuptial agreements, property settlements, or dissolution decrees in divorce actions. Section 203 of the 1976 Copyright Act provides that an author may unilaterally terminate a transfer of copyright approximately thirty-five years after the initial transfer. In community property states, state law assumes that …