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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)

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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)

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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)

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2c Patent Law Session. U.S. Patent Developments, Martin J. Adelman, Nicholas P. Groombridge, Laura Sheridan, Carey R. Ramos, Marjan Noor, Nahoko Ono

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

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3c Copyright Law & Concurrent Session. Copyright Potpourri, Ron Lazebnik, Sean M. O'Connor, Mehdi Ansari, Fiona Phillips, Nicholas Bartlet, Ann Bartow, Mitch Glazier

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

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4b Trademark Law Session. The Functionality Doctrine In Disarray?, Marshall Leaffer, Mark A. Lemley, Gordon Humphreys, David Stone, Irene Calboli, Jeffrey A. Handelman

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

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2b Patent Law Session. Patents And The Public Health, John R. Thomas, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Catherine Fitch, Justin Hughes, James Love, Gustavo De Freitas Morais

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

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3b Copyright Law & Competition Law Session. Artificial Intelligence, Annsley Merelle Ward, Stephen Burley, Colin Birss, Sasha Rosenthal-Larrea, Suzanne Wilson, John Lee, Helen Conlan

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

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2a Patent Law Session. Unified Patent Court, Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan, Klaus Grabinski, Aloys Hüttermann, Myles Jelf, Miquel Montañá, Edger F. Brinkman

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

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3a Copyright Law Session. Eu Copyright Developments, Stanford Mccoy, Eleonora Rosati, Ursula Feindor-Schmidt, Lauri Rechardt, Jerker Rydén, Martin Schaefer

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

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4a Trademark Law Session. Eu Trademark Law Update, Sven Schonhofen, James Nurton, Paolo Catallozzi, Joel Smith, Gordon Humphreys, Peter Reuss

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

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1b Plenary Session. Key Current Ip Issues: Reflections & Analysis, Hugh C. Hansen, Paul R. Michel, Denny Chin, He Jing, Richard D. Arnold, Renata B. Hesse

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

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1a Plenary Session. Government Leaders’ Perspectives On Ip, Hugh C. Hansen, António Campinos, Shira Perlmutter, Marco Giorello, Antony S. Taubman, Kathi Vidal

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

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The Public Square Has Eyes (Or Cameras): Anonymous Speech Under The First And Fourth Amendments In The Age Of Facial Recognition, Apratim Vidyarthi

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Facial recognition technology (“FRT”)—once a futuristic fantasy—is more pervasive than ever and shows no signs of becoming less prevalent. While this technology has its upsides, it elicits the notion of an omnipresent being that is watching and tracking us all the time. FRTs encroach on the First Amendment right to anonymous speech by revealing the identity of speakers and chilling speech. Yet, First Amendment doctrine does not provide much solace, since the right to anonymous speech regulates the government’s ability to force disclosure of a speaker’s identity rather than preventing it from collecting publicly available facial data. The right to …

Ip Interrupted: Diverse Voices In Intellectual Property, Fordham Iplj

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Lowering Barriers To Entry: Youtube, Fair Use, And The Copyright Claims Board, Jamie O'Neill

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The Internet has transformed the landscape of media production by opening the doors of creation to anyone with a computer and an idea. YouTube allows for millions of individuals to post and disseminate content at a low cost to widespread audiences. But while the barriers to entry for content creation have lowered, the barriers to the legal copyright system have remained largely unmoved since YouTube’s inception. This Note seeks to explore the exact specifications of YouTube’s copyright system, both the one mandated by law and the one created voluntarily by YouTube, in order to understand where fair use stands in …

The Ship Of Theseus: The Lanham Act, Chanel And The Secondhand Luxury Goods Market, Julie Tamerler

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phale- reus, for they took away the old planks as they de- cayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing ex- ample among the philosophers, for the logical ques- tion of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same. – Plutarch1

Bad Publicity: The Diminished Right Of Privacy In The Age Of Social Media, Kirby Shilling

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The “public disclosure of private facts” tort involves determining if and when publication of truthful, albeit embarrassing, facts warrant liability. Such liability inherently runs into First Amendment concerns. This Note analyzes the background of this tort, its status, and its application in different jurisdictions. Scholarship and jurisprudence have traditionally balanced the right to privacy with First Amendment guarantees by looking at different factors, including whether the disclosed information is properly described as “private” and whether it is newsworthy or a matter of legitimate public interest. However, the line between “public” and “private” has become increasingly blurred with new technology and …

Culture And Fair Use, Michael P. Goodyear

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The intersections of race and copyright have been underexamined in legal scholarship, despite repeated calls for further scrutiny. The scholarship has so far focused primarily on identifying where copyright has fallen short in protecting the creative works of artists of color. This Article, instead, hopes to offer one viable solution for creating more inclusivity of different cultures in copyright: the approval of cultural adaptations under fair use.

Cultural adaptations—the transformation of preexisting works to reflect the cultural and social mores and norms of a different group—would appear at first glance to be prohibited as derivative works, which, under the Copyright …

Graffiti On Cities’ Forgotten Landscapes: An Application Of Adverse Possession Law To The Visual Artists Rights Act, Minelli E. Manoukian

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Artists use any surface available to them as a canvas. There is the common: cloth and paper; the modern: skin; and even the illegal: buildings and privately-owned property. However, today, the cultural value that artwork instills in its community has grown, regardless of its legal status. Examples can be found in artwork created by graffiti artist Banksy, or even the urban installations of Tyree Guyton, creator of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit. Artists create masterpieces placed in plain sight that enrich the surrounding communities but often interfere with others’ property rights. However, the illegal or encroaching nature of the artwork …

The Patent Medium: Toward A Network Paradigm Of The Patent Medium, Or Cohen-Sasson

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The modern patent system is conceived of as an information platform; it is evident in the common description of the patent system as a quid-pro-quo bargain: Society grants exclusive rights in exchange for information published by a patentee. But is there more to the patent system than merely informing others? Does the patent system also serve as a communication (and not only information) platform, namely, as a medium? Based on an interdisciplinary analysis of the patent system’s structure and features through the lenses of communication studies, this Article suggests that it does. It demonstrates how the patent system—as a medium—enables …

Physiognomic Artificial Intelligence, Luke Stark, Jevan Hutson

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The reanimation of the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology at scale through computer vision and machine learning is a matter of urgent concern. This Article—which contributes to critical data studies, consumer protection law, biometric privacy law, and antidiscrimination law—endeavors to conceptualize and problematize physiognomic artificial intelligence (“AI”) and offer policy recommendations for state and federal lawmakers to forestall its proliferation.

Physiognomic AI, as this Article contends, is the practice of using computer software and related systems to infer or create hierarchies of an individual’s body composition, protected class status, perceived character, capabilities, and future social outcomes based on their physical …

The Legal Character And Practical Implementation Of A Trips Waiver For Covid-19 Vaccines, Andrew D. Mitchell, Antony Taubman, Theodore Samlidis

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Almost two years after initial proposals for a COVID-19 waiver of TRIPS obligations, a Ministerial decision adopted at the 12th Ministerial Conference in June 2022 waived obligations under Article 31(f) and the System for pharmaceutical export under the TRIPS Annex, and clarified existing options under TRIPS for increasing access to COVID-19 vaccines. As support for a more expansive pandemic waiver continues and WTO waivers remain legitimate mechanisms under WTO law, further waivers may be contemplated as viable options to address obstacles identified in the current pandemic or future health crises. This article explores what additional options are or may be …

“Fair” In The Future? Long-Term Limitations Of The Supreme Court’S Use Of Incrementalism In Fair Use Jurisprudence, Jonathan Alexander Fisher

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

April 2021 marked the most recent instance of the Supreme Court discussing copyright law, and more specifically fair use, in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. The April 2021 decision notably resolved the case solely on fair use grounds, avoiding a difficult question as to the copyrightability of computer code that generates software user interfaces. By resolving this specific case in this manner, the Supreme Court’s actions seemingly confirm a pattern among fair use cases in which rulings made “narrowly” on the unique factual predicate often produce unclear applications within the “broader” context of fair use. Given the flexible, judge-made …

Laws In Conversation: What The First Amendment Can Teach Us About Section 230, Haley Griffin

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

As the law surrounding regulation of online intermediaries developed, the First Amendment and Section 230 emerged as two central players. Though different bodies of law, their jurisprudence intersects at several points: both display procedural interactions, implicate free speech concerns, apply to intermediaries engaged in publisher and editorial behaviors, and consider good faith and scienter. However, despite these commonalities, discussion of the First Amendment and Section 230 has largely been siloed.

This Note places First Amendment and Section 230 jurisprudence in conversation with one another to determine which specific intermediary behaviors are addressed by each law. Although many cases discuss “traditional …

Based On A True Story: The Ever-Expanding Progeny Of Rogers V. Grimaldi, Zachary Shufro

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Trademark law limits the extent and manner to which individuals can use a surprisingly large percentage of common words in the English language. Indeed, as one empirical study of trademark registrations revealed, “when we use our language, nearly three-quarters of the time we are using a word that someone has claimed as a trademark.” Because trademark law grants a negative right to the mark-holder—that is to say, a right to prevent others from using that trademarked word in certain manners and contexts—it inherently conflicts with the First Amendment. In assessing the resulting discord from such a conflict, courts have several …

Speak Out: Verifying And Unmasking Cryptocurrency User Identity, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky, Michal Lavi

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Terror attacks pose a serious threat to public safety and national security. New technologies assist these attacks, magnify them, and render them deadlier. The more funding terrorist organizations manage to raise, the greater their capacity to recruit members, organize, and commit terror attacks. Since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, law enforcement agencies have increased their efforts to develop more anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering regulations, which are designed to block the flow of financing of terrorism and cut off its oxygen. However, at present, most regulatory measures focus on traditional currencies. As these restrictions become more successful, the likelihood that …