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The Freedom Of Influencing, Hannibal Travis
The Freedom Of Influencing, Hannibal Travis
University of Miami Law Review
Social media stars and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Act are clashing. Influencer marketing is a preferred way for entertainers, pundits, and everyday people to monetize their audiences and popularity. Manufacturers, service providers, retailers, and advertising agencies leverage influencers to reach into millions or even billions of consumer devices, capturing minutes or seconds of the market’s fleeting attention. FTC enforcement actions and private lawsuits have targeted influencers for failing to disclose the nature of a sponsorship relationship with a manufacturer, marketer, or service provider. Such a failure to disclose payments prominently is very common in Hollywood films and on radio …
Pay-To-Playlist: The Commerce Of Music Streaming, Christopher Buccafusco, Kristelia A. García
Pay-To-Playlist: The Commerce Of Music Streaming, Christopher Buccafusco, Kristelia A. García
Publications
Payola—sometimes referred to as “pay-for-play”—is the undisclosed payment, or acceptance of payment, in cash or in kind, for promotion of a song, album, or artist. Some form of pay-for-play has existed in the music industry since the nineteenth century. Most prominently, the term has been used to refer to the practice of musicians and record labels paying radio DJs to play certain songs in order to boost their popularity and sales. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the FCC has regulated this behavior—ostensibly because of its propensity to harm consumers and competition—by requiring that broadcasters disclose such payments.
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The Meaning Of Mcdonald's [(R)], Laura A. Heymann
Memes And Copyright: Article 13, Branding, And Digital Remix Culture, Yasemin Beykont
Memes And Copyright: Article 13, Branding, And Digital Remix Culture, Yasemin Beykont
Theses and Dissertations
This study investigates the impact of the EU digital copyright directive, Article 13, on memes and internet culture. Due to their transformative nature, it is tricky to fit memes into a traditional copyright framework. Article 13’s filter algorithms will be coded to detect posts that make use of intellectual property, thereby complicating the use of copyrighted images drawn from film and television. This study includes a discourse analysis of news coverage of Article 13 to explore how various groups characterized the value of meme culture and the threats posed by the new directive. It also includes a textual analysis of …
Bounded Rationality, Paternalism, And Trademark Law, Stacey Dogan
Bounded Rationality, Paternalism, And Trademark Law, Stacey Dogan
Faculty Scholarship
We don’t need behavioral economics to understand that trade marks can shape consumer preferences in ways that have little to do with objectively measurable differences in product quality. Scholars, judges, economists, and policymakers have long recognized the tendency of strong marks to skew consumer decisions. The concern lies not only in price effects but with the allocative effects of encouraging investment in persuasive advertising, rather than product innovation or similar “productive” pursuits. While informative advertising can benefit consumers, advertising that creates artificial brand-based differences between otherwise identical products appears not only costly to consumers but also socially wasteful.
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Celebrities’ Expansive “Right Of Publicity” Infringes Upon Advertisers’ First Amendment Rights, Jon Siderits
Celebrities’ Expansive “Right Of Publicity” Infringes Upon Advertisers’ First Amendment Rights, Jon Siderits
The University of Cincinnati Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal
No abstract provided.
You(Tube), Me, And Content Id: Paving The Way For Compulsory Synchronization Licensing On User-Generated Content Platforms, Nicholas Thomas Delisa
You(Tube), Me, And Content Id: Paving The Way For Compulsory Synchronization Licensing On User-Generated Content Platforms, Nicholas Thomas Delisa
Brooklyn Law Review
The changing landscape of digital media technology makes it increasingly difficult for owners of copyrighted music to monitor how their works are being exploited across the Internet. This is especially true of user-generated content (UGC) platforms—websites and applications such as Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, where content is created or uploaded predominantly by users. These services pose a special problem to copyright owners because, instead of content being uploaded from a single source that is easily sued and has deep pockets, content is uploaded by users. Users are a troublesome group because they are innumerable, sometimes anonymous, and mostly click on …
Branding Taxation, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine
Branding Taxation, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine
Georgia Law Review
Branding is important not only to businesses, but also to the economy. The intellectual property laws and tax laws should thus further the legitimate goals of encouraging and protecting brand investments while maintaining a sound tax base. Intellectual property protections for branding depend on advertisement and enforcement, both of which demand significant amounts of private investment by firms. Although one would expect similar tax treatments of both categories of investment, the categories are actually treated as vastly different for federal income tax purposes. Under the current tax system, advertising costs incurred to foster brand equality are generally expensed whereas litigation …
By Any Other Name: Image Advertising And The Commercial Speech Doctrine In Jordan V. Jewel, Kelly Miller
By Any Other Name: Image Advertising And The Commercial Speech Doctrine In Jordan V. Jewel, Kelly Miller
Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
This Comment focuses on the commercial speech doctrine as applied to modern advertising strategies, specifically, corporate image advertising. It centers on the recent litigation between basketball superstar Michael Jordan and a Chicago-area grocery chain, Jewel-Osco. When Michael Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, Jewel-Osco was invited to submit a congratulatory ad for a commemorative issue of Sports Illustrated devoted exclusively to Jordan’s career and accomplishments. Because Jordan had spent the bulk of his storied professional basketball career with the Chicago Bulls, the ad seemed a natural fit. Jordan, who did not give permission for his name to …
International Copyright: Domestic Barriers To United States Participation In The Rome Convention On Neighboring Rights, Eric T. Johnson
International Copyright: Domestic Barriers To United States Participation In The Rome Convention On Neighboring Rights, Eric T. Johnson
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Trademarks As Search Engine Keywords: Much Ado About Something?, David Franklyn, David A. Hyman
Trademarks As Search Engine Keywords: Much Ado About Something?, David Franklyn, David A. Hyman
Publications
We report on the results of a two-part study, including three online consumer surveys and a coding study of the results when 2500 trademarks were run through three search engines. Consumer goals and expectations turn out to be quite heterogeneous: a majority of consumers use brand names to search primarily for the branded goods, but most consumers are open to purchasing competing products. We find little evidence of traditional actionable consumer confusion regarding the source of goods, but only a small minority of consumers correctly and consistently distinguished paid ads from unpaid search results, or noticed the labels that search …
Mandated Disclosure In Literary Hybrid Speech, Zahr K. Said
Mandated Disclosure In Literary Hybrid Speech, Zahr K. Said
Articles
This Article, written for the Washington Law Review’s 2013 Symposium, The Disclosure Crisis, argues that hidden sponsorship creates a form of non-actionable influence rather than causing legally cognizable deception that mandatory disclosure can and should cure.
The Article identifies and calls into question three widely held assumptions underpinning much of the regulation of embedded advertising, or hidden sponsorship, in artistic communications. The first assumption is that advertising can be meaningfully discerned and separated from communicative content for the purposes of mandating disclosure, even when such advertising occurs in “hybrid speech.” The second assumption is that the hidden promotional aspects …
Sorting Out The Green From The Greenwash, Matthew Rimmer
Sorting Out The Green From The Greenwash, Matthew Rimmer
Matthew Rimmer
Greenwashing is corporate spin which involves making misleading or deceptive claims that a company’s products or services are environmentally sustainable or friendly.The problem of greenwashing requires a robust, integrated approach to law reform to discourage the practice that makes it harder for legitimate voices to be heard.The consultancy group, TerraChoice, had identified seven sins of greenwashing – including claims involving hidden trade-offs; lack of proof; vagueness; false labelling; irrelevant claims; false comparisons; and false statements. Such conduct is putting consumers at a disadvantage and giving some businesses an unfair advantage in a market increasingly concerned about the environment and climate …
Playboy, Contact Lenses, And Trademark Infringement: An Analysis Of Possible Claims As A Result Of Pop-Up Advertisements, Ashley A. Locke
Playboy, Contact Lenses, And Trademark Infringement: An Analysis Of Possible Claims As A Result Of Pop-Up Advertisements, Ashley A. Locke
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
No abstract provided.
Celebrity Endorsements In Non-Traditional Advertising: How The Ftc Regulations Fail To Keep Up With The Kardashians, Leah W. Feinman
Celebrity Endorsements In Non-Traditional Advertising: How The Ftc Regulations Fail To Keep Up With The Kardashians, Leah W. Feinman
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Advertisers have used the rise of reality television, social media, and the public's fascination with celebrities to connect with consumers in new and non-traditional ways. With these new techniques come new concerns over consumer protection. When an advertisement does not look like an advertisement, consumers can easily be misled. In 2009, the FTC implemented a set of Guides which were intended to clarify and interpret the regulations enforced by the FTC, and advise the public on how to conduct affairs regarding sponsorship disclosure, specifically in new media. As the note describes, the Guides are insufficient as applied to non-traditional advertising …
Trademark Protection Of Color Alone: How And When Does A Color Develop Secondary Meaning And Why Color Marks Can Never Be Inherently Distinctive, Diane E. Moir
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Towards Symmetry In The Law Of Branding, Rebecca Tushnet
Towards Symmetry In The Law Of Branding, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Companies sometimes want to abandon an old identity and rebrand with a new one. Trademark law probably does not have much to say about rebranding in itself. But we should be careful about how we think about rebranding and other undisclosed source relationships because, if not handled properly, law’s recognition of such techniques could end up reinforcing trademark owners’ ability to deter competition and control free speech.
Looking At The Lanham Act: Images In Trademark And Advertising Law, Rebecca Tushnet
Looking At The Lanham Act: Images In Trademark And Advertising Law, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Words are the prototypical regulatory subjects for trademark and advertising law, despite our increasingly audiovisual economy. This word-focused baseline means that the Lanham Act often misconceives its object, resulting in confusion and incoherence. This Article explores some of the ways courts have attempted to fit images into a word-centric model, while not fully recognizing the particular ways in which images make meaning in trademark and other forms of advertising. While problems interpreting images are likely to persist, this Article suggests some ways in which courts could pay closer attention to the special features of images as compared to words.
Vol. Ix, Tab 41 - Ex. R - Wojcicki Deposition (Google Vice-President Product Management), Susan Wojcicki
Vol. Ix, Tab 41 - Ex. R - Wojcicki Deposition (Google Vice-President Product Management), Susan Wojcicki
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Trademark Fair Use: Braun® Versus The Bunny, Vanessa P. Rollins
Trademark Fair Use: Braun® Versus The Bunny, Vanessa P. Rollins
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
Nominative fair use is a contentious issue in the field of trademark law. Manufacturers of original products who oppose the use of their actual products in advertisements for complementary goods often resort to the Lanham Act to prevent such practices. Courts have found the use of another's product in the advertising of complementary goods falls outside the nominative fair use defense. This article examines the nominative fair use defense and whether nominative fair use should encompass such uses.
Advertising And The Transformation Of Trademark Law, Mark Bartholomew
Advertising And The Transformation Of Trademark Law, Mark Bartholomew
Journal Articles
Despite the presence of a vigorous debate over the proper scope of trademark protection, scholars have largely ignored study of trademark law's origins. It would be a mistake, however, to ignore the history behind trademark law. Scrutiny of the formative era in American trademark law yields two important conclusions. First, courts granted robust legal protection to trademark holders in the early twentieth century because they accepted the benign view of advertising presented to them by advertisers. As advertising became linked to cultural progress and social cohesion, courts adopted doctrinal revisions to protect advertising's value that remain embedded in modern trademark …
Intellectual Property Rights In Advertising, Lisa P. Ramsey
Intellectual Property Rights In Advertising, Lisa P. Ramsey
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
Before the twentieth century, U.S. courts refused to protect copyright in advertisements. Until the middle of the twentieth century, advertising slogans generally were not registered or protected under U.S. trademark law. Today, firms can acquire copyright protection in advertising and there is no categorical rule against trademark registration or protection of slogans. This Article questions whether this extension of copyright protection to advertising and trademark protection to slogans has a satisfactory utilitarian justification[...] If it is too difficult to completely eliminate copyright protection of advertising, Congress should at least consider reducing such protection to increase the free flow of advertising …
Making A Mark In The Internet Economy: A Trademark Analysis Of Search Engine Advertising, Mark Bartholomew
Making A Mark In The Internet Economy: A Trademark Analysis Of Search Engine Advertising, Mark Bartholomew
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comparative Advertising In The United States And In France, Charlotte J. Romano
Comparative Advertising In The United States And In France, Charlotte J. Romano
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
Comparative advertising has been widely used for over thirty years in the United States. By contrast, the use of this advertising format has traditionally been-and still is-very marginal in France. The term "comparative advertising" refers to any form of advertising in which a trademark owner draws a comparison between his product, service, or brand and that of a competitor. The central issue of this article is to determine why, despite identical guiding policies, comparative advertising remains unusual in France while it is commonplace in the United States. Attempting to answer that question unavoidably raises numerous related issues: can the two …
Henley V. Dillard Department Stores: Don Loves His Henley, And Has A Right To It Too, Eleanor Johnson
Henley V. Dillard Department Stores: Don Loves His Henley, And Has A Right To It Too, Eleanor Johnson
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Remembering Melville Nimmer: Some Cautionary Notes On Commercial Speech, William W. Van Alstyne
Remembering Melville Nimmer: Some Cautionary Notes On Commercial Speech, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Scholarship
This examination concerns itself with two main questions: what qualifies as commercial speech and how much protection does commercial speech enjoy under the First Amendment when compared to other forms of speech. The trend of the Court indicates that commercial speech enjoys protections similar to political speech.
Ambushing The Olympic Games, Robert N. Davis
Ambushing The Olympic Games, Robert N. Davis
Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Federal Preemption Of The Right Of Publicity In Sing-Alike Cases, Leonard A. Wohl
Federal Preemption Of The Right Of Publicity In Sing-Alike Cases, Leonard A. Wohl
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Fair Use In Commercial Advertising
Fair Use In Commercial Advertising
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Copyright Of Advertising, Mary Garner Borden
Copyright Of Advertising, Mary Garner Borden
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.