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Beyond Trademark: The Washington Redskins Case And The Search For Dignity, Victoria F. Phillips
Beyond Trademark: The Washington Redskins Case And The Search For Dignity, Victoria F. Phillips
Chicago-Kent Law Review
In her pioneering book, We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program, Professor Bernadette Atuahene employs a detailed ethnographic study of South Africa’s land restitution program to develop the concept of a dignity taking. This article extends the application of Atuahene’s theory to the taking of intangible property arguing that the misappropriation of cultural identity and imagery for use as a federal trademark can also constitute a dignity taking in certain cases. Perhaps no effort has received more public attention than the longstanding battle over the Washington NFL football team’s name and its federally registered “Redskins” …