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Full-Text Articles in Law
Copyright For A Social Species, Robert E. Suggs
Copyright For A Social Species, Robert E. Suggs
Robert E. Suggs
Arguments about the proper scope of copyright protection focus on the economic consequences of varying degrees of protection. Most analysts view copyright as an economic phenomenon, and the size and health of our copyright industries measure the success of copyright policies. The constitutional text granting Congress the copyright power and the nature of special interest lobbying naturally create this economic focus; but this is a serious mistake. An exclusively economic focus makes no more sense than measuring the nutritional merits of our food supply from the size and profitability of the fast food industry. The expressive culture that copyright protects …
Copyright For A Social Species, Robert E. Suggs
Copyright For A Social Species, Robert E. Suggs
Faculty Scholarship
Arguments about the proper scope of copyright protection focus on the economic consequences of varying degrees of protection. Most analysts view copyright as an economic phenomenon, and the size and health of our copyright industries measure the success of copyright policies. The constitutional text granting Congress the copyright power and the nature of special interest lobbying naturally create this economic focus; but this is a serious mistake. An exclusively economic focus makes no more sense than measuring the nutritional merits of our food supply from the size and profitability of the fast food industry.
The expressive culture that copyright protects …
Product Placement Or Pure Entertainment? Critiquing A Copyright-Preemption Proposal, Kristen E. Riccard
Product Placement Or Pure Entertainment? Critiquing A Copyright-Preemption Proposal, Kristen E. Riccard
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
I Own Therefore I Am: Copyright, Personality, And Soul Music In The Digital Commons, David Dante Troutt
I Own Therefore I Am: Copyright, Personality, And Soul Music In The Digital Commons, David Dante Troutt
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Teaching Without Infringement: A New Model For Educational Fair Use , David A. Simon
Teaching Without Infringement: A New Model For Educational Fair Use , David A. Simon
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Million Dollar Baby: Celebrity Baby Pictures And The Right Of Publicity , Natalie Grano
Million Dollar Baby: Celebrity Baby Pictures And The Right Of Publicity , Natalie Grano
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Public As Creator And Infringer: Copyright Law Applied To The Creators Of User-Generated Video Content , David E. Ashley
The Public As Creator And Infringer: Copyright Law Applied To The Creators Of User-Generated Video Content , David E. Ashley
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Untold Stories In South Africa: Creative Consequences Of The Rights-Clearing Culture For Documentary Filmmakers, Peter Jaszi, Sean Flynn
Untold Stories In South Africa: Creative Consequences Of The Rights-Clearing Culture For Documentary Filmmakers, Peter Jaszi, Sean Flynn
Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series
This report summarizes research on the perceptions of South African documentary filmmakers about copyright clearance requirements and the effect of such requirements on their work. This work was performed in the context of a larger project exploring how lessons learned from “best practices” projects with documentary filmmakers in the U.S. can help their counterparts in other countries identify and overcome barriers to effective filmmaking posed by escalating
copyright clearance requirements.
The Evolution Of Copyright Law In The Arts, Kevin Liftig
The Evolution Of Copyright Law In The Arts, Kevin Liftig
Honors Scholar Theses
As digital storage of intellectual goods such as literature and music has become widespread, the duplication and unlicensed distribution of these goods has become a frequent source of legal contention. When technology for production and replication of intellectual goods advanced, there were disputes concerning the rights to produce and duplicate these works. As new technologies have made copies of intellectual goods more accessible, legal institutions have largely moved to protect the rights of ownership of ideas through copyright laws. This paper will examine key changes in the technology that affect intellectual property, and the responses that legal institutions have made …
Tiered Originality And The Dualism Of Copyright Incentives, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Tiered Originality And The Dualism Of Copyright Incentives, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
All Faculty Scholarship
Professor Balganesh responds to Gideon Parchomovsky & Alex Stein, Originality, 95 Va. L. Rev. 1505 (2009), arguing that their proposal can perhaps be accommodated under current copyright doctrine.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: An Updated Analysis, Kimberlee G. Weatherall
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: An Updated Analysis, Kimberlee G. Weatherall
Kimberlee G Weatherall
This paper provides an updated analysis of the issues posed by negotiations for the ACTA, as at November 2009.
The Google Book Search Settlement And The View From The Public Interest World, Laura Quilter
The Google Book Search Settlement And The View From The Public Interest World, Laura Quilter
Laura Quilter
No abstract provided.
Economies Of Desire: Fair Use And Marketplace Assumptions, Rebecca Tushnet
Economies Of Desire: Fair Use And Marketplace Assumptions, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
At the moment that “incentives” for creation meet “preferences” for the same, the economic account of copyright loses its explanatory power. This piece explores the ways in which the desire to create can be excessive, beyond rationality, and free from the need for economic incentive. Psychological and sociological concepts can do more to explain creative impulses than classical economics. As a result, a copyright law that treats creative activity as a product of economic incentives can miss the mark and harm what it aims to promote. The idea of abundance—even overabundance—in creativity can help define the proper scope of copyright …
Waardering Van Intellectuele Eigensomsrechten, Severin De Wit
Waardering Van Intellectuele Eigensomsrechten, Severin De Wit
Severin de Wit
Waardering van Intellectuele eigendomsrechten is een nog onontgonnen terrein. Bestaande waarderingstechnieken zijn in veel gevallen ontoereikend voor een bruikbare waardering. Omstandigheden die voor een waardering van belang kunnen zijn.
The Imperfect Is The Enemy Of The Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation, Wendy Seltzer
The Imperfect Is The Enemy Of The Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation, Wendy Seltzer
Wendy Seltzer
Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It often fails to stop piracy and frequently blocks non-infringing uses. Yet the drive to correct these imperfections masks a deeper conflict, between the DRM system of anticircumvention and open development in the entire surrounding media environment. This conflict, at the heart of the DRM schema, will only deepen, even if other aspects of DRM can be improved. This paper takes a systemic look at the legal, technical, and business environment of DRM to highlight this openness conflict and its effects.
Scholars have described DRM’s failures …
What Kinds Of Statutory Restrictions Are Jurisdictional?, Scott Dodson
What Kinds Of Statutory Restrictions Are Jurisdictional?, Scott Dodson
Faculty Publications
Section 411(a) of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides that “no civil action for infringement of the copyright in any United States work shall be instituted until preregistration or registration of the copyright claim has been made.” In this case, a district court approved a class action settlement that purported to resolve both registered and unregistered copyright claims. The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether that registration requirement is a limitation on federal court subject-matter jurisdiction.
Copyright Or Trademark? Can One Boy Wizard Prevent Film Title Duplication?, Anna Phillips
Copyright Or Trademark? Can One Boy Wizard Prevent Film Title Duplication?, Anna Phillips
San Diego International Law Journal
This Comment will examine the various approaches that India, the United Kingdom, and the United States take in dealing with film title disputes. Second, this Comment will discuss a case brought by Warner Brothers regrding a Harry Potter film title dispute in India and how the outcome of the case affects title infringement issues... Finally, this Comment will discuss a possible loophole in current trademark regulations regarding film titles that will support the argument that countries should use both copyright and trademark law to minimize the release of film titles that are similar or identical to those already on the …
La Belgique : Un Pays De Cocagne Pour Les Créateurs De Dessins Et Modèles ?, Estelle Derclaye
La Belgique : Un Pays De Cocagne Pour Les Créateurs De Dessins Et Modèles ?, Estelle Derclaye
Estelle Derclaye
No abstract provided.
Who Owns Bratz? The Integration Of Copyright And Employment Law, Michael D. Birnhack
Who Owns Bratz? The Integration Of Copyright And Employment Law, Michael D. Birnhack
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
From Mbube To Wimoweh: African Folk Music In Dual Systems Of Law, Deborah Wassel
From Mbube To Wimoweh: African Folk Music In Dual Systems Of Law, Deborah Wassel
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
A Hole In Need Of Mending: Copyright And The Individual Marking Of Advertisements Published In Collective Works, Randy D. Gordon
A Hole In Need Of Mending: Copyright And The Individual Marking Of Advertisements Published In Collective Works, Randy D. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
Over 20 years ago, the United States brought its copyright law into sync with international norms through the adoption of the Berne Convention. As a result, copyright notice is no longer a prerequisite to copyright protection. But because Congress implemented the Berne Convention through amendments to the (rather than adoption of a wholly new) Copyright Act, litigants have argued and at least some courts have held that certain works still must be noticed. This Article is concerned to rebut that contention.
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Framework For Tailoring Intellectual Property Rights, Michael W. Carroll
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Framework For Tailoring Intellectual Property Rights, Michael W. Carroll
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The United States and its trading partners have adopted cultural and innovation policies under which the government grants one-size-fits-all patents and copyrights to inventors and authors. On a global basis, the reasons for doing so vary, but in the United States granting intellectual property rights has been justified as the principal means of promoting innovation and cultural progress. Until recently, however, few have questioned the wisdom of using such blunt policy instruments to promote progress in a wide range of industries in which the economics of innovation varies considerably.
Provisionally accepting the assumptions of the traditional economic case for intellectual …
Intellectual Property Protection Or Protectionism? Declaratory Judgment Use By Patent Owners Against Prospective Infringers, Lawrence M. Sung
Intellectual Property Protection Or Protectionism? Declaratory Judgment Use By Patent Owners Against Prospective Infringers, Lawrence M. Sung
Lawrence M. Sung
No abstract provided.
From The Mouths Of Babes: Protecting Child Authors From Themselves, Julie Cromer Young
From The Mouths Of Babes: Protecting Child Authors From Themselves, Julie Cromer Young
Julie Cromer Young
This article explores the explosion of copyright protection now granted to authors under the age of eighteen, the age of majority in most states. Historically, contracting parties have been able to use the doctrine of infancy to disaffirm contracts they made when they were not yet of legal age. The Internet is changing this. As with most Internet sites, sites targeted at minors require young authors to accept terms of use in order to publish and distribute works online. Those terms and conditions often compromise the copyrights of the child authors, preventing them from reclaiming the licenses once the authors …
Vol. Vi, Tab 38 - Ex. 28 - Email From Christopher Klipple, Christopher Klipple
Vol. Vi, Tab 38 - Ex. 28 - Email From Christopher Klipple, Christopher Klipple
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Copyright Social Utility And Social Justice Interdependence: A Paradigm For Intellectual Property Empowerment And Digital Entrepreneurship, Lateef Mtima
West Virginia Law Review
While advances in digital information technology offer extraordinary possibilities for the exploration and exploitation of literary and artistic expres- sion, these advances also present unprecedented opportunities for intellectual property ("IP") empowerment and the achievement of singular milestones in copyright social justice. The ostensible conflict between copyright digital social utility and digital commoditization has engendered a reemphasis upon the social engineering obligations of the copyright law, and a search for copyright policies which will harmonize these corrivallous objectives. Doctrinal constructions of the copyright law which acknowledge the law's congenital social justice charac- teristics, however, can achieve this equilibrium. The revisualization of …
Thwack!! Take That, User-Generated Content!: Marvel Enterprises, Inc. V. Ncsoft Corp., Carl M. Szabo
Thwack!! Take That, User-Generated Content!: Marvel Enterprises, Inc. V. Ncsoft Corp., Carl M. Szabo
Carl M Szabo
Dear Madam or Sir: As seen in the attached note, I am to make two contributions. First, I address the issue of copyright liability of websites for infringement by the website users. A constant struggle as old as the constitution itself, the issue of copyright protection now makes its way into the virtual world of the internet. While the issue of copyright liability has been seen in hundreds of comments and notes from courts and attorneys alike, the issue of copyright liability on the internet remains an open question that if not addressed could endanger the protection afforded to authors …
I, Thomas F. Cotter
I, Thomas F. Cotter
Thomas F. Cotter
Many states confer upon natural persons a “right of publicity” that renders unlawful the unauthorized use of a person’s name or other indicia of identity for purposes of trade. Efforts to reconcile publicity rights with the First Amendment and with principles of copyright preemption, however, have differed radically from one state or circuit to another, as well as within the scholarly community. In this Article, we present a comprehensive framework for integrating both First Amendment and copyright preemption principles into standard publicity analysis. Our framework eliminates much of the incoherence found in contemporary right of publicity case law by adopting …
P2p 'System Caching' – The Copyright Dilemma, Assaf Jacob, Zoe Argento
P2p 'System Caching' – The Copyright Dilemma, Assaf Jacob, Zoe Argento
Assaf Jacob
This paper explores the legal ramifications of the prevalent Internet Service Provider practice of providing caching services to P2P network users. First, the paper describes the P2P industry, its benefits and drawbacks. Then the paper discusses several caching techniques that can be implemented, and indeed are implemented, by ISPs around the globe. These practices allow ISPs to provide clients with better services but, by the same token, expose them to copyright infringement suits by third parties. The article will discuss how copyright law should consider the costs and benefits to the public of P2P caching practices, especially in the application …
Integrating The Right Of Publicity With First Amendment And Copyright Preemption Analysis, Thomas F. Cotter
Integrating The Right Of Publicity With First Amendment And Copyright Preemption Analysis, Thomas F. Cotter
Thomas F. Cotter
Many states confer upon natural persons a “right of publicity” that renders unlawful the unauthorized use of a person’s name or other indicia of identity for purposes of trade. Efforts to reconcile publicity rights with the First Amendment and with principles of copyright preemption, however, have differed radically from one state or circuit to another, as well as within the scholarly community. In this Article, we present a comprehensive framework for integrating both First Amendment and copyright preemption principles into standard publicity analysis. Our framework eliminates much of the incoherence found in contemporary right of publicity case law by adopting …