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Of Pornography Pirates And Privateers: Applying Fdcpa Principles To Copyright Trolling Litigation, Henry D. Alderfer Nov 2014

Of Pornography Pirates And Privateers: Applying Fdcpa Principles To Copyright Trolling Litigation, Henry D. Alderfer

William & Mary Law Review

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The Fairest Of Them All: The Creative Interests Of Female Fan Fiction Writers And The Fair Use Doctrine, Pamela Kalinowski May 2014

The Fairest Of Them All: The Creative Interests Of Female Fan Fiction Writers And The Fair Use Doctrine, Pamela Kalinowski

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Why Manufacturing Matters: 3d Printing, Computer-Aided Designs, And The Rise Of End-User Patent Infringement, Sklyer R. Peacock May 2014

Why Manufacturing Matters: 3d Printing, Computer-Aided Designs, And The Rise Of End-User Patent Infringement, Sklyer R. Peacock

William & Mary Law Review

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Fixing Notice Failure: How To Tame The Trolls And Restore Balance To The Patent System, Mark Rawls Apr 2014

Fixing Notice Failure: How To Tame The Trolls And Restore Balance To The Patent System, Mark Rawls

William & Mary Business Law Review

Patent litigation has become more frequent, more uncertain, and more expensive. Much of this can be traced to the rise of patent trolls asserting vague and uncertain software patents. Trolls have been derided as bringing frivolous and vexatious suits against productive companies, sapping the very same innovativeness that the patent system is supposed to encourage. Instead, companies are subject to nuisance-value suits as an ordinary course of business; for less established companies, such suits can threaten their very existence. Often, because of uncertain rules about claim construction and the granting of very broad patents, the accused infringer has no notice …


More Than Ip: Trademark Among The Consumer Information Laws, Michael Grynberg Apr 2014

More Than Ip: Trademark Among The Consumer Information Laws, Michael Grynberg

William & Mary Law Review

Part I begins the inquiry by describing trademark’s connection with other consumer information laws. In many cases optimal trademark policy—by whatever criteria—depends on the state of play in another regime. This complicates trademark’s development in multiple ways. It is not simply a problem of determining how another body of law treats the related issue. Identifying the relevant parallel regime is not always easy. Indeed, sometimes the laws most pertinent to the production of consumer information are more general in nature—think, for example, of the role that simple trespass law plays in determining what we know about how our meat is …


Copyrighting The "Useful Art" Of Couture: Expanding Intellectual Property Protection For Fashion Designs, M. C. Miller Apr 2014

Copyrighting The "Useful Art" Of Couture: Expanding Intellectual Property Protection For Fashion Designs, M. C. Miller

William & Mary Law Review

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Rauschenberg, Royalties, And Artists' Rights: Potential Droit De Suite Legislation In The United States, M. Elizabeth Petty Mar 2014

Rauschenberg, Royalties, And Artists' Rights: Potential Droit De Suite Legislation In The United States, M. Elizabeth Petty

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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Contracting In The Dark: Casting Light On The Shadows Of Second Level Agreements, Abigail R. Simon Feb 2014

Contracting In The Dark: Casting Light On The Shadows Of Second Level Agreements, Abigail R. Simon

William & Mary Business Law Review

In the early days of the Internet, copyright owners concentrated on eliminating infringement threats posed by the new technology. Today, many copyright owners are partnering with major user-generated content platforms in order to participate in and receive compensation for some third-party infringement occurring on the Internet. YouTube pioneered such partnership arrangements in 2006 with a new kind of copyright license now referred to as a “second level agreement.” In 2008, YouTube unveiled Content ID, which streamlined the process for entering into second level agreements with the site. This Note analyzes Content ID and the second level agreements underlying it to …