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Zen And The Art Of Repair Manuals: Enabling A Participatory Right To Repair Through An Autonomous Concept Of Eu Copyright Law, Anthony D. Rosborough

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Repair manuals are an essential resource for repairing today’s modern and computerised devices. And though these manuals may contain purely utilitarian and uncopyrightable facts, they often receive copyright protection in their entirety as literary works. This protection can impede community-based efforts toward fostering a culture of participatory repair throughout the EU, including repair cafés and tool libraries. Participatory repair activities provide numerous environmental, social, and economic benefits. This article explores whether directive 2001/29/EC’s exception for “uses in connection with the repair or demonstration of equipment” at Article 5(3)(l) (the “Repair Exception”) may offer an avenue for enabling such non-profit participatory …

Competition And Innovation: The Breakup Of Ig Farben, Felix Poege

Faculty Scholarship

The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany’s leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed the breakup because of IG Farben’s importance for the German war economy instead of standard antitrust concerns. In technology areas where the breakup reduced concentration, patenting increased strongly, driven by domestic firms unrelated to IG Farben. An analysis of patent texts shows that an increased propensity to patent does not drive the effect. Descriptively, IG Farben’s successors increased …

Brief Of Amici Curiae Intellectual Property Scholars In Support Of Defendants-Appellees, Rebecca Tushnet, Laura A. Heymann

Briefs

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Brief Of Michelle M. Wu As Amicus Curiae, Michelle M. Wu

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Copyright is, above all else, a balancing act. This equity principle is especially important when technology collides with traditional copyright. Market effects are certainly an important feature of that balance but must be weighed against other equitable interests, regardless of their technological form. Literary criticism, second-hand sales, and library lending all have the potential to impact sales but nevertheless are considered social goods that copyright is intended to foster.

Controlled digital lending ("CDL") was established to innovate these core, well-established components of copyright law, allowing libraries to secure their collections and maintain their relevance as physical stewards of knowledge in …

Ithaka S+R Us Faculty Survey 2021, Melissa Blankstein

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey has tracked the changing research, teaching, and publishing practices of faculty members within higher education triennially since early digital transformation at the turn of the century. This project has aimed to provide actionable findings to help colleges and universities, among other relevant stakeholders such as academic libraries, learned societies, and scholarly publishers, make evidence-based decisions for their planning and strategy. Against the backdrop of the global pandemic and its numerous impacts to many different facets of higher education, this eighth cycle of the survey once again queried faculty nationally on topics such as scholarly …

Trips-Compliant Alternatives For Overcoming Intellectual Property Barriers To Covid-19 Countermeasures, Brook Baker

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

In the aftermath of the recent WTO Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (adopted June 17, 2022), there may be some confusion about the many options that countries have for overcoming intellectual property barriers to allow alternative production, distribution, and use of COVID-19 countermeasures. Of course, visibility into the patent landscape for particular products is essential to understanding freedom to operate in terms of products, ingredient, and manufacturing processes, and that work is complicated, though aided by the Medicines Patent Pool MedsPaL and VaxPaL databases and work done by other researchers on COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics patents . Overcoming patent …

Conceptualizing A 'Right To Research' And Its Implications For Copyright Law: An International And European Perspective, Christophe Geiger, Bernd Justin Jütte

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

Copyright, at international, European and national levels, does not provide a legal framework that prioritizes enabling and incentivizing research using protected works and information to the extent necessary and desirable in a digital, data-driven society in order to build a sustainable ecosystem for innovation and creativity. While small progress has been made, for example with the recent introduction of specific exceptions for research purposes and for text and data mining in certain national legislations as well as in the European Union law, a horizontal approach towards a more research-friendly copyright ecosystem has so far failed to evolve. By revisiting international …

Color Of Creatorship - Author's Response, Anjali Vats

Articles

This essay is the author's response to three reviews of The Color of Creatorship written by notable intellectual property scholars and published in the IP Law Book Review.

United States Response To Questionnaire, Philippa Loengard, Anne Diamond, Lily Henderson, Jenica Wang

Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts

ALAI-USA is the U.S. branch of ALAI (Association Littèraire et Artistique Internationale). ALAI-USA was started in the 1980's by the late Professor Melville B. Nimmer, and was later expanded by Professor John M. Kernochan.

Paper Mills Research Report [English], Committee On Publication Ethics, Stm

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Executive summary

The subject of paper mills is currently being widely discussed by many stakeholders across the research publishing landscape. This report aims to give an overview of this topic, to explain how paper mills work, why they work and what we can collectively do about it. We have also undertaken a study of data submitted from a variety of investigations by leading publishers to get a sense of the scale of the problem. This paper concludes that the submission of suspected fake research papers, also often associated with fake authorship, is growing and threatens to overwhelm the editorial processes …

The Relational Robot: A Normative Lens For Ai Legal Neutrality — Commentary On Ryan Abbott, The Reasonable Robot, Carys Craig

Articles & Book Chapters

Artificial Intelligence (AI), we are told, is poised to disrupt almost every facet of our lives and society. From industrial labor markets to daily commutes, and from policing tactics to personal assistants, AI brings with it the usual promise and perils of change. How that change will unfold, however, and whether it will ultimately bestow upon us more benefits than harms, remains to be determined. A significant factor in setting the course for AI’s inevitable integration into society will be the legal framework within which it is developed and operationalized. Who will AI displace? What will it replace? What improvements …

Copyright Protection For Works In The Language Of Life, Nina Srejovic

IPIPC Papers & Reports

In 2001, the DNA Copyright Institute sought to capitalize on the fear of human cloning by offering celebrities the opportunity to use copyright to secure exclusive rights in their DNA. At the time, a Copyright Office spokesperson pointed out that a person’s DNA “is not an original work of authorship.” That statement is no longer self-evident. A scientist claims to have used CRISPR technology to create a pair of twin girls with human-altered DNA that may provide immunity to HIV infection and improved cognitive function. Through gene therapy, doctors can “author” changes to patients’ DNA to cure disease. Scientists “edit” …

The Truth About Design Patents, Sarah Burstein, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Faculty Scholarship

Design patents are hot. Scholars and policymakers are increasingly focusing on this once-niche area of law. However, many of the empirical studies in this area—including old ones that still get cited—were methodologically questionable from the start, have become outdated, or both. In this Article, we make two sets of contributions to this important and underdeveloped literature. First, we review the empirical studies of design patents thus far, including those that pre- and post-date the creation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and we update the findings of those studies. Second, we consider a set of institutional …

Resisting Face Surveillance With Copyright Law, Amanda Levendowski

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Face surveillance is animated by deep-rooted demographic and deployment biases that endanger marginalized communities and threaten the privacy of all. But current approaches have not prevented its adoption by law enforcement. Some companies have offered voluntary moratoria on selling the technology, leaving many others to fill in the gaps. Legislators have enacted regulatory oversight at the state and city levels, but a federal ban remains elusive. Both approaches require vast shifts in practical and political will, each with drawbacks. While we wait, face surveillance persists. This Article suggests a new possibility: face surveillance is fueled by unauthorized copies and reproductions …

Intellectual Property For A Better Future, Marketa Trimble

Media & Informal Publications

Professor Trimble delivered this presentation for Propriedade Intelectual sem fronteiras: seminário comparativo Brasil-Estados, a World Intellectual Property Day event organized by the United States Consulate General in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Sao Paolo, Brazil).

5b Patent Law Session. Patent Potpouri, Andrew Bowler, Michael Williams, Sepehr Shahshahani, Ari Laakkonen, Marleen Van Den Horst, Simon Holzer

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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1c Plenary Session. Views From The Judiciary, Hugh C. Hansen, Richard Arnold, Stephen Burley, Paolo Catallozzi, Klaus Grabinski, Simon Holzer, Gordon Humphreys, Robin Jacob, Carl Josefsson, Rian Kalden, F. Scott Kieff, Paul R. Michel, Pauline Newman, Peter Charleton, Edger F. Brinkman

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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5d Patent Law Session. Ptab, John B. Pegram, Adam Mossoff, Patricia Martone, Brian Scarpelli, George E. Badenoch, Brian P. Murphy

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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6d Copyright Law, Competition & Trademark Law Session. U.S. Copyright Developments, Michael S. Shapiro, David O. Carson, Kevin Amer, Joshua L. Simmons, Jennifer Pariser, Sandra Aistars

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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7d Competition, Two Concurrent Sessions & Trademark Law. U.S. Trademark Law Developments, Matthew D. Asbell, Marshall Leaffer, Jennifer Simmons, Rebecca Tushnet, Gerald M. Levine, Maria A. Scungio

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

No abstract provided.

5c Patent Law Session. International Patent Developments, Robin Jacob, Peter Charleton, Brian Cordery, John Richards, Heinz Goddar, Melanie Müller, Eva Ehlich, Kevin Mcgough

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

No abstract provided.

7c Competition, Two Concurrent Sessions & Trademark Law. Trade Secrets, Victoria A. Cundiff, Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, Max Haedicke, James Pooley, Thomas D. Pease, Mark F. Schultz

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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6c Copyright Law, Competition & Trademark Law Session. Frand, Cordula Schumacher, Jorge L. Contreras, Steven Geiszler, David Por, Jyh-An Lee, Steve Akerley, Wolrad Prinz Zu Waldeck Und Pyrmont

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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6b Copyright Law, Competition & Trademark Law Session. Copyright Protections For Publishers, Ted Shapiro, Kimberley Isbell, Danielle Coffey, Ali Sternburg, Jan Bernd Nordemann, Carlo Scollo Lavizzari

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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7b Competition, Two Concurrent Sessions & Trademark Law. Multilateral Developments, Michele Woods, Steven Tepp, Annabelle Bennett, F. Scott Kieff, Paul Maier

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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6a Copyright Law, Competition & Trademark Law Session. Fair Use, Ron Lazebnik, Daan G. Erikson, Jane C. Ginsburg, Joseph C. Gratz, Brian W. Gray, Bhamati Viswanathan

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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5a Patent Law Session. Patent Prosecution And Litigation, Penny Gilbert, Kenneth R. Adamo, Carl Josefsson, David J. Kappos, Ronald E. Dimock, Otto Licks

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

No abstract provided.

7a Competition, Two Concurrent Sessions & Trademark Law. Antitrust: Developments And Trends, Daryl Lim, Damien Geradin, William E. Kovacic, Thomas B. Nachbar, Thibault Schrepel, Angela Zhang, Eleonor M. Fox

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

No abstract provided.

Kickoff Session. What Will China's Ip System Look Like In 5 Years?, He Jing, Michael-Yu Ding, Guobin Cui, Zheng Ning Ms, Yang Ming, Chi Xu

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

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4c Trademark Law Session. Is The Likelihood Of Confusion Test Getting Out Of Hand?, Anderson Duff, Daniel R. Bereskin, Irene Calboli, Jeffrey A. Handelman, Rebecca Tushnet, Miguel Pérez, Tobias Timmann

29th Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2022)

No abstract provided.