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Measuring Trademark Dilution By Tarnishment, Suneal Bedi, David Reibstein
Measuring Trademark Dilution By Tarnishment, Suneal Bedi, David Reibstein
Indiana Law Journal
The law of trademark tarnishment—a type of trademark dilution—is in disarray. The
basic definition is deceptively simple. Trademark tarnishment occurs when a junior
mark harms the reputation of a substantially similar existing senior trademark by
associating itself with something perverse or deviant. However, it turns out that
Congress and the courts disagree over the prima facie evidence necessary to prove
its existence. The problem is that federal law and related legal principles are simply
ill-equipped to adequately analyze this unique market-driven doctrine. To make
matters worse, legal scholars cannot even agree on whether trademark tarnishment
can empirically exist in the …
Content-Based Copyright Denial, Ned Snow
Content-Based Copyright Denial, Ned Snow
Indiana Law Journal
No principle of First Amendment law is more firmly established than the principle that government may not restrict speech based on its content. It would seem to follow, then, that Congress may not withhold copyright protection for disfavored categories of content, such as violent video games or pornography. This Article argues otherwise. This Article is the first to recognize a distinction in the scope of coverage between the First Amendment and the Copyright Clause. It claims that speech protection from government censorship does not imply speech protection from private copying. Crucially, I argue that this distinction in the scope of …
Celebrities And The First Amendment: Broader Protection Against The Unauthorized Publication Of Photographs, D. Scott Gurney
Celebrities And The First Amendment: Broader Protection Against The Unauthorized Publication Of Photographs, D. Scott Gurney
Indiana Law Journal
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