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The Global Trade Mark, Edward Lee
The Global Trade Mark, Edward Lee
Edward Lee
This Article offers a proposal for WTO countries to adopt global IP rights for a special class of trademarks: famous or well-known marks. Well-known marks are well-suited for greater departure from the territoriality principle, given the transnational protections for well-known marks that already exist under the Paris Convention and TRIPS Agreement. This Article proposes creating a Global Trademark (GTM) for well-known marks, to be governed by one, uniform international law. The GTM will span all countries in the WTO. The GTM is inspired, in part, by the Community Trade Mark (CTM) in the European Union, the first truly transnational IP …
Copyright-Exempt Nonprofits: A Simple Proposal To Spur Innovation, Edward Lee
Copyright-Exempt Nonprofits: A Simple Proposal To Spur Innovation, Edward Lee
Edward Lee
New types of social networks have recently emerged that have facilitated the growth of a different kind of user-generated content: curation. The user finds various content from the Internet and then organizes or “curates” the content in a social network platform in a way that better serves the user’s purpose. For example, on Pinterest, users can “pin” content from the web onto their virtual “pinboards” that have topical categories of the users’ choice. The content typically involves a photograph (in reduced size) from the original web page that is then displayed on the user’s pinboard. Clicking on the photograph displays …
The Fight For The Future: How People Defeated Hollywood And Saved The Internet—For Now, Edward Lee
The Fight For The Future: How People Defeated Hollywood And Saved The Internet—For Now, Edward Lee
Edward Lee
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