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Scènes À Faire In Music: How An Old Defense Is Maturing, And How It Can Be Improved, Torrean Edwards
Scènes À Faire In Music: How An Old Defense Is Maturing, And How It Can Be Improved, Torrean Edwards
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
First, this Comment will provide background on the test for copyright infringement used by the Fourth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits. Second, the Comment will address what scènes à faire is and how recent cases have treated scènes à faire in music. Third and finally, the Comment will offer a suggestion as to a proper scènes à faire determination and analyze how scènes à faire should be applied.
The Trademark Dilution Revision Act's Nullifying Effect On Famous Mark Holder's Dilution Claims, Kathleen Bodenbach
The Trademark Dilution Revision Act's Nullifying Effect On Famous Mark Holder's Dilution Claims, Kathleen Bodenbach
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This comment will address how the TDRA has left famous mark holders, particularly high-end fashion house Louis Vuitton, with little in its arsenal to prevent others from mocking and devaluing its marks despite its worthy efforts. Part II addresses the relationship between trademark infringement, dilution, and parody. Part III takes a closer look at fashion giant Louis Vuitton’s strides to protect its famous marks and the courts’ differing approaches to assessing whether a parody exists. Part III also addresses the relationship between parody when it does and does not operate as a designation of source. Part IV offers a discussion …
Questions Of Trust, Betrayal, And Authorial Control In The Avant-Garde: The Case Of Julius Eastman And John Cage, Toni Lester
Questions Of Trust, Betrayal, And Authorial Control In The Avant-Garde: The Case Of Julius Eastman And John Cage, Toni Lester
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This article explores how the idea of trust-based dialogue can give us an alternative understanding about the nature of authorial control and inter-pretation across identity-based differences. Part One will discuss the respective personal stories, philosophies, and competing historical understandings that influenced Cage’s creation of Solo and Eastman’s interpretation thereof. Part Two will offer definitions of trust and communication from the fields of feminist relational psychology, philosophy, and law. Throughout Part Two, I will reflect on the extent to which a trust-based dialogue could have taken place between Cage and Eastman. My general sense is that the answer is “no.” Both …
What Are We To Do With Deposit Copies?, Sadie Zurfluh
What Are We To Do With Deposit Copies?, Sadie Zurfluh
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
One of the problems courts are faced with today is determining what happens with unpublished works registered under the 1909 Act: can only the sheet music filed with the deposit copy come into evidence when comparing two works as substantially similar? In 2015, the district court in Williams v. Gaye addressed the issue; however, the Ninth Circuit declined to decide the issue on appeal.8 Later in 2018, in Skidmore v. Zeppelin (“Skidmore”), the Ninth Circuit concluded that when dealing with unpublished works under the 1909 Act, the deposit copy defines the scope of the copyright. Part I of this comment …