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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 …
The Resilient Foundation Of Democracy: The Legal Deconstruction Of The Washington Posts's Condemnation Of Edward Snowden, Hanna Kim
Indiana Law Journal
On September 17, 2016, The Washington Post (“the Post”) made history by being the first paper to ever call for the criminal prosecution of its own source —Edward Snowden. Yet, two years prior to this editorial, the Post accepted the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for its “revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency”—an honor which would not have been bestowed had Snowden not leaked the documents through this news outlet. The other three major media outlets that received and published Snowden’s documents and findings—The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Intercept—all have taken the …
Removing Disfavored Faces From Facebook: The Freedom Of Speech Implications Of Banning Sex Offenders From Social Media, John Hitz
Indiana Law Journal
This Note scrutinizes the constitutionality of statutes that ban sex offenders who are no longer under any form of probation, parole, or supervised release from using social media. This Note argues that the incarnations of three of the social media ban statutes that have been examined by the federal judiciary were properly found unconstitutional because they violate the free speech rights of the sex offenders that they ban from social media. This Note goes on to argue that states can secure the interests they were seeking to protect in adopting these statutes through other means.
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