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Musical Copyright Infringement: The Replacement Of Arnstein V. Porter - A More Comprehensive Use Of Expert Testimony And The Implementation Of An "Actual Audience" Test , Michelle V. Francis Nov 2012

Musical Copyright Infringement: The Replacement Of Arnstein V. Porter - A More Comprehensive Use Of Expert Testimony And The Implementation Of An "Actual Audience" Test , Michelle V. Francis

Pepperdine Law Review

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Community For Creative Non-Violence V. Reid: New Certainty For The Copyright Work For Hire Doctrine , Katherine B. Marik Nov 2012

Community For Creative Non-Violence V. Reid: New Certainty For The Copyright Work For Hire Doctrine , Katherine B. Marik

Pepperdine Law Review

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Technology Transfer Laws Governing Federally Funded Research And Development, James V. Lacy, Bradford C. Brown, Michael R. Rubin Nov 2012

Technology Transfer Laws Governing Federally Funded Research And Development, James V. Lacy, Bradford C. Brown, Michael R. Rubin

Pepperdine Law Review

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Fun & Profit: When Commercial Parodies Constitute Copyright Or Trademark Infringement, Tammi A. Gauthier Nov 2012

Fun & Profit: When Commercial Parodies Constitute Copyright Or Trademark Infringement, Tammi A. Gauthier

Pepperdine Law Review

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An Economic View Of Innovation And Property Right Protection In The Expanded Regulatory State, J. Miles Hanisee Nov 2012

An Economic View Of Innovation And Property Right Protection In The Expanded Regulatory State, J. Miles Hanisee

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Prosecution Of Trade Secrets Thefts Under Federal Law, Peter J. G. Toren Nov 2012

The Prosecution Of Trade Secrets Thefts Under Federal Law, Peter J. G. Toren

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Washington Redskins Case And The Doctrine Of Disparagement: How Politically Correct Must A Trademark Be?, Kimberly A. Pace Nov 2012

The Washington Redskins Case And The Doctrine Of Disparagement: How Politically Correct Must A Trademark Be?, Kimberly A. Pace

Pepperdine Law Review

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As Unoriginal As They Wanna Be: Upholding Musical Parody In Campell V. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., Gregory D. Deutsch Oct 2012

As Unoriginal As They Wanna Be: Upholding Musical Parody In Campell V. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., Gregory D. Deutsch

Pepperdine Law Review

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Beware Of The Highwayman On The Information Superhighway: A Balanced Proposal To Protect Copyrights Within The National Information Infrastructure, Chandra Gehri Spencer Oct 2012

Beware Of The Highwayman On The Information Superhighway: A Balanced Proposal To Protect Copyrights Within The National Information Infrastructure, Chandra Gehri Spencer

Pepperdine Law Review

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Wet Footprints? Digital Watermarks: A Trail To The Copyright Infringer On The Internet, Rosemarie F. Jones Oct 2012

Wet Footprints? Digital Watermarks: A Trail To The Copyright Infringer On The Internet, Rosemarie F. Jones

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Principle Of Fair Notice: Is It Prudent Guidance For The Future Of Patent Law? , Georgia E. Kralovic Oct 2012

The Principle Of Fair Notice: Is It Prudent Guidance For The Future Of Patent Law? , Georgia E. Kralovic

Pepperdine Law Review

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Gray Days Ahead?: The Impact Of Quality King Distributors, Inc. V. L'Anza Research International, Inc. , William Richelieu Oct 2012

Gray Days Ahead?: The Impact Of Quality King Distributors, Inc. V. L'Anza Research International, Inc. , William Richelieu

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Termination Of Transfers Provision Of The 1976 Copyright Act: Is It Time To Alienate It Or Amend It?, Kathleen M. Bragg Oct 2012

The Termination Of Transfers Provision Of The 1976 Copyright Act: Is It Time To Alienate It Or Amend It?, Kathleen M. Bragg

Pepperdine Law Review

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Internet-Based Fans: Why The Entertainment Industries Cannot Depend On Traditional Copyright Protections , Thomas C. Inkel Oct 2012

Internet-Based Fans: Why The Entertainment Industries Cannot Depend On Traditional Copyright Protections , Thomas C. Inkel

Pepperdine Law Review

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Is There Ever A Reason To Know? A Comparison Of The Contributory Liability "Knowledge" Standard For Websites Hosting Infringed Trademarked Content Versus Infringed Copyrighted Content, Rachel N. Agress Sep 2012

Is There Ever A Reason To Know? A Comparison Of The Contributory Liability "Knowledge" Standard For Websites Hosting Infringed Trademarked Content Versus Infringed Copyrighted Content, Rachel N. Agress

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

The doctrines of contributory copyright liability and contributory trademark liability are both based on the confluence of basic tort liability and the policy goal of encouraging innovation and commerce. Because the two concepts sometimes conflict, courts have struggled to create a comprehensive body of law to reach a reconciliation. The doctrine of contributory copyright liability evolved through a rich body of case law that was subsequently supplemented by the legislatively enacted Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In contrast, the doctrine of contributory trademark liability is a purely common law doctrine and has not witnessed legislative intervention. This article posits that …


Printing The Impossible Triangle: The Copyright Implications Of Three-Dimensional Printing, Brian Rideout Sep 2012

Printing The Impossible Triangle: The Copyright Implications Of Three-Dimensional Printing, Brian Rideout

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Three-dimensional printing (3D printing), which allows users to digitize and replicate objects, is emerging as the next potentially disruptive technology. It is now possible to “print” intricate objects from furniture to food to human organs. Because 3D printing relies on computer-based blueprints in order to create physical objects, digital copyright infringement can now impact the physical world. The first example occurred in February 2011, when the world's first Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice for a 3D printed object was sent. This article describes how 3D printing works in relation to copyright law, first by discussing this DMCA takedown …


A New Look For The Fashion Industry: Redesigning Copyright Law With The Innovative Design Protection And Piracy Protection Act (Idpppa), Brittany West Sep 2012

A New Look For The Fashion Industry: Redesigning Copyright Law With The Innovative Design Protection And Piracy Protection Act (Idpppa), Brittany West

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Introduced in Congress in August 2010, the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (IDPPPA) would amend 17 U.S.C. § 1301 to extend copyright protection to unique, distinguishable, non-trivial, and non-utilitarian fashion designs. The fashion industry in the United States is currently a $200 billion industry which is afforded limited intellectual property protection compared to foreign markets. This article explores the applicability of the existing Copyright Act to fashion designs and argues that the IDPPPA takes a narrow approach to eliminate ambiguity present in former bills attempting to amend copyright law. The IDPPPA would incentivize innovation, the ultimate goal of …


Both A License And A Sale: How To Reconcile Self-Replicating Technology With Patent Exhaustion, Douglas Fretty Sep 2012

Both A License And A Sale: How To Reconcile Self-Replicating Technology With Patent Exhaustion, Douglas Fretty

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Too many authorities view the transfer of patented self-replicating technology (SRT) as either a pure license or a pure sale. If a pure license exists, the patentee can impose post-transfer restrictions on the product's use, frustrating the policy goals of limited monopoly and free alienability of chattels. If a pure sale is triggered, however, the patentee loses all rights through patent exhaustion, allowing the purchaser to replicate the chattel at will. Sensitive to this latter argument, several courts have enforced Monsanto Company's “bag tag” seed licenses, which require Monsanto's farmer customers to destroy all second-generation seed. Urging a middle path, …


It Looks Like A Sale; It Quacks Like A Sale…But It's Not? An Argument For The Application Of The Duck Test In A Digital First Sale Doctrine, Matthew J. Turchyn Sep 2012

It Looks Like A Sale; It Quacks Like A Sale…But It's Not? An Argument For The Application Of The Duck Test In A Digital First Sale Doctrine, Matthew J. Turchyn

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

What are you purchasing when you buy a print of Picasso's Guernica? The piece of paper it is printed on, several courts have replied. In these instances, courts have created a pragmatic legal fiction that allows for the transfer of a copy of a work while the author retains his or her rights and privileges under copyright law. Therefore, the purchaser of the Guernica print could resell his or her legally created print of the painting on the secondary market. This is the essence of the First Sale Doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act. This practice breaks down, however, when …


Measuring Intellectual Property 'Strength' And Effects: An Assessment Of Patent Scoring Systems And Causality, W. Lesser Sep 2012

Measuring Intellectual Property 'Strength' And Effects: An Assessment Of Patent Scoring Systems And Causality, W. Lesser

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

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No More Format Disputes: Are Reality Television Formats The Proper Subject Of Federal Copyright Protection?, Jessica E. Bergman Sep 2012

No More Format Disputes: Are Reality Television Formats The Proper Subject Of Federal Copyright Protection?, Jessica E. Bergman

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

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Remedying Past And Future Harm: Reconciling Conflicting Circuit Court Decisions Under The Federal Trademark Dilution Act, Daniel H. Lee May 2012

Remedying Past And Future Harm: Reconciling Conflicting Circuit Court Decisions Under The Federal Trademark Dilution Act, Daniel H. Lee

Pepperdine Law Review

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Protecting Private Intellectual Property From Government Intrusion: Revisiting Smithkline And The Case For Just Compensation, John C. O'Quinn May 2012

Protecting Private Intellectual Property From Government Intrusion: Revisiting Smithkline And The Case For Just Compensation, John C. O'Quinn

Pepperdine Law Review

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International Dispute Settlement At The Trademark-Domain Name Interface, Laurence R. Helfer May 2012

International Dispute Settlement At The Trademark-Domain Name Interface, Laurence R. Helfer

Pepperdine Law Review

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Oh, The Places You'll Go: The Implications Of Current Patent Law On Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stacy Kincaid Apr 2012

Oh, The Places You'll Go: The Implications Of Current Patent Law On Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stacy Kincaid

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Advice-Of-Counsel Defense In Patent Infringement Cases: How Far Does Waiver Of Work Product Extend?, Cecil C. Kuhne Iii Apr 2012

The Advice-Of-Counsel Defense In Patent Infringement Cases: How Far Does Waiver Of Work Product Extend?, Cecil C. Kuhne Iii

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Riaa V. The People: The Recording Industry's Misguided Attempt To Use The Legal System To Save Their Business Model, John A. Fedock Mar 2012

The Riaa V. The People: The Recording Industry's Misguided Attempt To Use The Legal System To Save Their Business Model, John A. Fedock

Pepperdine Law Review

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Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda For Copyright Reform, Hannibal Travis Mar 2012

Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda For Copyright Reform, Hannibal Travis

Pepperdine Law Review

This article proposes a series of copyright reforms to pave the way for digital library projects like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and Google Print, which promise to make much of the world's knowledge easily searchable and accessible from anywhere. Existing law frustrates digital library growth and development by granting overlapping, overbroad, and near-perpetual copyrights in books, art, audiovisual works, and digital content. Digital libraries would benefit from an expanded public domain, revitalized fair use doctrine and originality requirement, rationalized systems for copyright registration and transfer, and a new framework for compensating copyright owners for online infringement without imposing derivative …


A Secret In One District Is No Secret In Another: The Cases Of Merrill Lynch And Preliminary Injunctions Under The Faa , Anahit Tagvoryan Mar 2012

A Secret In One District Is No Secret In Another: The Cases Of Merrill Lynch And Preliminary Injunctions Under The Faa , Anahit Tagvoryan

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

Public policy favors protecting intellectual property in arbitration, and both Congress and the courts support, and in fact encourage, arbitration of intellectual property disputes. This support stems from the history of favoritism toward private arbitration agreements and other alternative dispute resolution in lieu of judicial adjudication. Because intellectual property disputes often involve commercial parties transacting business across state lines, arbitration is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). Availability of provisional remedies such as injunctions has also proven effective in the area of intellectual property disputes. However, unlike the option and process of private arbitration where there is little to …


I Am The Walrus. - No. I Am!: Can Paul Mccartney Transpose The Ubiquitous "Lennon/Mccartney" Songwriting Credit To Read "Mccartney/Lennon?" An Exploration Of The Surviving Beatle's Attempt To Re-Write Music Lore, As It Pertains To The Bundle Of Intellectual Property Rights, Ezra D. Landes Mar 2012

I Am The Walrus. - No. I Am!: Can Paul Mccartney Transpose The Ubiquitous "Lennon/Mccartney" Songwriting Credit To Read "Mccartney/Lennon?" An Exploration Of The Surviving Beatle's Attempt To Re-Write Music Lore, As It Pertains To The Bundle Of Intellectual Property Rights, Ezra D. Landes

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.