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The Second Circuit And The Development Of Intellectual Property Law: The First 125 Years, Kenneth A. Plevan
The Second Circuit And The Development Of Intellectual Property Law: The First 125 Years, Kenneth A. Plevan
Fordham Law Review
The Second Circuit has had a profound impact on copyright law. Judge Learned Hand’s decision in Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp. helped define for later generations the fundamental idea/expression dichotomy. The transformative use doctrine has not been without its critics, but other leading decisions have helped write the rules of the road for the e-commerce era, both in the copyright and trademark contexts, as well as the right of publicity, albeit a creation of state statutory law, is generally considered an area of intellectual property and is covered in this article. Law school catalogs usually include trade secret law within …
Insta-Appropriation: Finding Boundaries For The Second Circuit’S Fair Use Doctrine After Campbell, Anna Schuler
Insta-Appropriation: Finding Boundaries For The Second Circuit’S Fair Use Doctrine After Campbell, Anna Schuler
Fordham Law Review
Copyright law’s current fair use landscape is riddled with unclear standards and old considerations forced upon new media. This is especially problematic in the context of digital appropriation of art from online social media platforms—an issue highlighted by Richard Prince’s exhibit “New Portraits,” in which he appropriated strangers’ Instagram photos for his own profit. Unless this situation is remedied, digital content creators will effectively lose their statutory copyright protections. Thus, when considering digital appropriation cases, courts should require a transformation of content rather than purpose, should elevate the weight of the fourth statutory factor, and should reinstate the “comment upon” …
A Copyright Right Of Publicity, Reid Kress Weisbord
A Copyright Right Of Publicity, Reid Kress Weisbord
Fordham Law Review
This Article identifies a striking asymmetry in the law’s disparate treatment of publicity-rights holders and copyright holders. State-law publicity rights generally protect individuals from unauthorized use of their name and likeness by others. Publicity-claim liability, however, is limited by the First Amendment’s protection for expressive speech embodying a “transformative use” of the publicity-rights holder’s identity. This Article examines for the first time a further limitation imposed by copyright law: when a publicity-rights holder’s identity is transformatively depicted in a copyrighted work without consent, the author’s copyright can produce the peculiar result of enjoining the publicity-rights holder from using or engaging …