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Asserting Patents To Combat Infringement Via 3d Printing: It’S No “Use”, Daniel Harris Brean Apr 2013

Asserting Patents To Combat Infringement Via 3d Printing: It’S No “Use”, Daniel Harris Brean

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Three-dimensional ("3D") printing technology, which enables physical objects to be "printed" as easily as words can be printed on a page, is rapidly moving from industrial settings into consumers' homes. The advent of consumer grade 3D printers fundamentally alters the traditional allocation of manufacturing infrastructure and sales activity. No longer do manufacturers need to make, sell, and ship physical products in their physical states. Rather, consumers may download digital representations of products over the Internet for printing in the comfort their own homes. For products sold in this fashion that are patented, this presents difficult hurdles to enforcement against infringers. …


The Parthenon Sculptures And Cultural Justice, Derek Fincham Apr 2013

The Parthenon Sculptures And Cultural Justice, Derek Fincham

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

From government and philosophy to art drama and culture, the ancient Athenians, as most everyone knows, gave future generations so much. Yet the pinnacle of their artistic achievement, the Parthenon, remains a damaged and incomplete work of art. 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the last removal of works of art from the Parthenon. That taking was ordered by an English diplomat known to history as Lord Elgin, and it reminds us that cultures create lasting monuments. But not equally. Cultures which remove the artistic achievements of other nations have increasingly been confronted with uncomfortable questions about how these objects …


Access Denied: How Social Media Accounts Fall Outside The Scope Of Intellectual Property Law And Into The Realm Of The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act, Tiffany Miao Apr 2013

Access Denied: How Social Media Accounts Fall Outside The Scope Of Intellectual Property Law And Into The Realm Of The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act, Tiffany Miao

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

This note addresses the challenge of applying intellectual property laws to determining ownership rights over social media accounts, specifically in the employer and employee context. This note suggests that IP regimes, namely Trademark, Copyright,and Trade Secrets, fail to provide an adequate framework for determining such ownership rights. Instead, this note proposes that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act serves as a more appropriate legal framework.


Real Masks And Real Name Policies: Applying Anti-Mask Case Law To Anonymous Online Speech, Margot E. Kaminski Apr 2013

Real Masks And Real Name Policies: Applying Anti-Mask Case Law To Anonymous Online Speech, Margot E. Kaminski

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The First Amendment protects anonymous speech, but the scope of that protection has been the subject of much debate. This Article adds to the discussion of anonymous speech by examining anti-mask statutes and cases as an analogue for the regulation of anonymous speech online. Anti-mask case law answers a number of questions left open by the Supreme Court. It shows that courts have used the First Amendment to protect anonymity beyond core political speech, when mask-wearing is expressive conduct or shows a nexus with free expression. This Article explores what the anti-mask cases teach us about anonymity online, including proposed …


Freud On The Court: Re-Interpreting Sexting & Child Pornography Laws, Matthew H. Birkhold Apr 2013

Freud On The Court: Re-Interpreting Sexting & Child Pornography Laws, Matthew H. Birkhold

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Although many developments in child pornography law are troubling, perhaps the most disconcerting is the growing number of cases in which children are being charged with violating child pornography laws for engaging in “sexting,” or sending sexually explicit photographs via cellular phones or over the Internet. Although the law implicitly considers children the victims of child pornography and the photographer and audience as punishable perpetrators, this logic is challenged by sexting cases. Yet in many instances, children who take and send “lascivious” pictures of themselves have been charged with violating the very law designed to protect them from the harms …


The Incompatibility Of Droit De Suite With Common Law Theories Of Copyright, Alexander Bussey Apr 2013

The Incompatibility Of Droit De Suite With Common Law Theories Of Copyright, Alexander Bussey

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Although proponents have recently been attempting to strengthen droit de suite, or artists' resale royalty rights, throughout the world, all laws based on the right are flawed — so much so that further implementation would have almost none of the positive effects that its sponsors hope for. This is to say that droit de suite, which is meant to protect young artists, actually discourages the creation of art by young artists, and reduces the amount of money an artist can make from a sale. Furthermore, droit de suite conflicts with basic common law notions of copyright and property and is …


Into A Silver Age: U.S. Patent Law 1992-2012, John R. Thomas Mar 2013

Into A Silver Age: U.S. Patent Law 1992-2012, John R. Thomas

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Trademark Law Harmonization In The European Union: Twenty Years Back And Forth, William Robinson, Giles Pratt, Ruth Kelly Mar 2013

Trademark Law Harmonization In The European Union: Twenty Years Back And Forth, William Robinson, Giles Pratt, Ruth Kelly

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Copyright 1992-2012: The Most Significant Development?, Jane C. Ginsburg Mar 2013

Copyright 1992-2012: The Most Significant Development?, Jane C. Ginsburg

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Fordham Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference, its organizer, Professor Hugh Hansen, planned a session on “U.S. Copyright Law: Where Has It Been? Where Is It Going?” and asked me to look back over the twenty years since the conference’s inception in order to identify the most important development in copyright during that period. Of course, the obvious answer is “the Internet,” or “digital media,” whose effect on copyright law has been pervasive. I want to propose a less obvious response, but first acknowledge that digital media and communications have presented …


Technology And Intellectual Property: Out Of Sync Or Hope For The Future?, Bradford L. Smith Mar 2013

Technology And Intellectual Property: Out Of Sync Or Hope For The Future?, Bradford L. Smith

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


A Twenty-Year Retrospective On United States Trademark Law In Ten Cases, Marshall Leaffer Mar 2013

A Twenty-Year Retrospective On United States Trademark Law In Ten Cases, Marshall Leaffer

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Him’S Role In European Trademark Harmonization: Past, Present And Future, Paul Maier Mar 2013

Him’S Role In European Trademark Harmonization: Past, Present And Future, Paul Maier

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


International Copyright: An Unorthodox Analysis, Hugh C. Hansen Mar 2013

International Copyright: An Unorthodox Analysis, Hugh C. Hansen

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Professor Hansen reviews the development of copyright from its traditional domestic orientation to the modern emphasis on globalization and harmonization. His commentary analogizes modern trends in international copyright to religious equivalents. He notes that the current players include a “secular priesthood” (the traditional copyright bar and academics), “agnostics and atheists” (newer academics and lawyers, particularly those concerned with technology and the culture of the public domain) and “missionaries” (whose task it is to increase copyright protection around the world and who are primarily driven by trade considerations). The copyright “crusade” has been driven by this last group. The author compares …


A Road To Unification: Patent Litigation In The United Kingdom 1990-2012, Justin Watts, Tom Alkin Mar 2013

A Road To Unification: Patent Litigation In The United Kingdom 1990-2012, Justin Watts, Tom Alkin

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Copyright In Europe: Twenty Years Ago, Today And What The Future Holds, P. Bernt Hugenholtz Mar 2013

Copyright In Europe: Twenty Years Ago, Today And What The Future Holds, P. Bernt Hugenholtz

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit, After Three Decades, Pauline Newman Mar 2013

The Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit, After Three Decades, Pauline Newman

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


From Microsoft To Google: Intellectual Property, High Technology, And The Reorientation Of U.S. Competition Policy And Practice, William E. Kovacic Mar 2013

From Microsoft To Google: Intellectual Property, High Technology, And The Reorientation Of U.S. Competition Policy And Practice, William E. Kovacic

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Graduated Response American Style: “Six Strikes” Measured Against Five Norms, Annemarie Bridy Jan 2013

Graduated Response American Style: “Six Strikes” Measured Against Five Norms, Annemarie Bridy

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

In 2008, in recognition of the DMCA’s inadequacy in the face of P2P file sharing, and with the high-profile case of Arista Records v. Lime Group pending in federal district court in New York, then New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo began pressuring broadband providers to agree voluntarily to play a greater role in fighting online infringement. Subsequently, the Obama administration, represented nationally by the Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) and internationally by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), expressly endorsed the concept of privately negotiated anti-piracy collaborations between corporate rights owners and …


Toward A Limited Right Of Publicity: An Argument For The Convergence Of The Right Of Publicity, Unfair Competition And Trademark Law, Andrew Beckerman-Rodau Jan 2013

Toward A Limited Right Of Publicity: An Argument For The Convergence Of The Right Of Publicity, Unfair Competition And Trademark Law, Andrew Beckerman-Rodau

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The right of publicity — the most recently developed type of intellectual property — allows a person to control commercial use of his or her identity. The scope of the right has expanded significantly since its inception because many courts and commentators have misinterpreted it, viewing it as a pure property right justified by a labor or unjust enrichment theory. Rather, this article contends that it should be evaluated in light of the utilitarian justification for intellectual property law. Rewarding people by allowing them to monetize their public persona is not the goal of the right of publicity. The goal …


Evolution Or Mutation?: The Elimination Of High Mark Similarity Standards In Federal Dilution Law, Matthew A. Karmel Jan 2013

Evolution Or Mutation?: The Elimination Of High Mark Similarity Standards In Federal Dilution Law, Matthew A. Karmel

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Who Owns Your Body Art?: The Copyright And Constitutional Implications Of Tattoos, Meredith Hatic Jan 2013

Who Owns Your Body Art?: The Copyright And Constitutional Implications Of Tattoos, Meredith Hatic

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Red Card: Using The National Football League’S “Rooney Rule” To Eject Race Discrimination From English Professional Soccer’S Managerial And Executive Hiring Practices, Jeremy Corapi Jan 2013

Red Card: Using The National Football League’S “Rooney Rule” To Eject Race Discrimination From English Professional Soccer’S Managerial And Executive Hiring Practices, Jeremy Corapi

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


News On The Internet, Robert Denicola Jan 2013

News On The Internet, Robert Denicola

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Newspapers are in trouble. Circulation and advertising are down as readers shift from print to online media. Although changing reader preferences and the loss of lucrative classified advertising to online sources are major worries, the news media seems preoccupied with news aggregators and bloggers who distribute news content on the internet without permission. Newspapers are not the only ones worried about the unauthorized distribution of "their" news on the internet. Financial services companies are unhappy about the distribution of their "hot" stock recommendations and other content providers seek to control online news ranging from movie schedules to business ratings. Traditional …


A Great Invisible Crashing: The Rise And Fall Of Patent Eligibility Through Mayo V. Prometheus, Scott Pierce Jan 2013

A Great Invisible Crashing: The Rise And Fall Of Patent Eligibility Through Mayo V. Prometheus, Scott Pierce

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Title 35 of the United States Code at Section 101 states that “[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.” Despite the apparent simplicity of the statute and its predecessors, the boundaries of patent eligibility dictated by the term “process” and the term “art” that it replaced, along with the terms “machine,” “manufacture” and “composition of matter,” have become increasingly uncertain over the course of the last two-hundred years. Recently, the lack …


Fda Puffery: Smoking Out The Constitutionality Of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels, Israel Klein Jan 2013

Fda Puffery: Smoking Out The Constitutionality Of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels, Israel Klein

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Much Ado About Nexus: The States Struggle To Impose Sales Tax Obligations On Out-Of-State Sellers Engaged In E-Commerce, Sara Shoenfeld Jan 2013

Much Ado About Nexus: The States Struggle To Impose Sales Tax Obligations On Out-Of-State Sellers Engaged In E-Commerce, Sara Shoenfeld

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Innovation And Productivity Within The Workplace Amidst Economic Uncertainty, Shlomit Yanisky Ravid Jan 2013

Rethinking Innovation And Productivity Within The Workplace Amidst Economic Uncertainty, Shlomit Yanisky Ravid

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Then, You Had It, Now It’S Gone: Interspousal Or Community Property Transfer And Termination Of An Illusory Ephemeral State Law Right Or Interest In Copyright, Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons Jan 2013

Then, You Had It, Now It’S Gone: Interspousal Or Community Property Transfer And Termination Of An Illusory Ephemeral State Law Right Or Interest In Copyright, Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Often in the case of a marriage where one partner is a creative spouse, the primary marital asset is a body of copyrighted works. In 2013, author-spouses entered the period when they may begin to terminate any putative copyright transfer to the community property estate or terminate other transfers that may be the basis for prenuptial or postnuptial agreements, property settlements, or dissolution decrees in divorce actions. Section 203 of the 1976 Copyright Act provides that an author may unilaterally terminate a transfer of copyright approximately thirty-five years after the initial transfer. In community property states, state law assumes that …


Introduction: A Look At Twenty Years Of Ip Protection And What The Future Holds, Hugh C. Hansen Jan 2013

Introduction: A Look At Twenty Years Of Ip Protection And What The Future Holds, Hugh C. Hansen

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Next Generation Television On Consumers And The First Amendment, Rob Frieden Jan 2013

The Impact Of Next Generation Television On Consumers And The First Amendment, Rob Frieden

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Consumers have access to an ever increasing inventory of video content choices as a result of technological innovations, more readily available broadband, new business plans, inexpensive high capacity storage and the Internet’s ability to serve as a single medium for a variety of previously standalone services delivered via different channels. They increasingly have little tolerance for “appointment television” that limits access to a particular time, channel and device. Access to video content is becoming a matter of using one of several software-configured interfaces capable of delivering live and recorded content anytime, anywhere, to any device and via many different transmission …