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Vogue Juridique & The Theory Choice Problem In The Debate Over Copyright Protection For Fashion Designs, Michael G. Bennett, Nick Buell, Jason Cetel, C. C. Perry

Maryland Law Review Online

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Copyright Infringement Pushin': Google, Youtube, And Viacom Fight For Supremacy In The Neighborhood That May Be Controlled By The Dmca's Safe Harbor Provision, William Henslee

Journal Publications

No longer does it seem that a copyright infringer is "anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner." Now, one who uses the copyrighted material without the permission of the owner is not an infringer until the court decides that the infringer has gone too far in appropriating content that he or she did not create. This new world order was most recently challenged in Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. This Article will explore why the Viacom/YouTube litigation should be the case that reestablishes the rights of copyright owners and clarifies the seemingly disparate views …

You Don't Own Me: Why Work For Hire Should Not Be Applied To Sound Recordings, William Henslee, Elizabeth Henslee

Journal Publications

Many recording artists and songwriters never reap the rewards of their work. America's first professional songwriter died in poverty at the age of thirty-seven. At the Congressional level the situation has described recording artists as "one group of creators who get ripped off more than anybody else in any other industry". As we approach 2013, there will be a new line of cases that deal with authors of sound recordings attempting to terminate their copyright assignment to the record companies. While the most efficient and frugal solution would be legislative action, the most probable outcome is expensive, fact-intensive litigation. Congress …

What's Wrong With U.S.?: Why The United States Should Have A Public Performance Right For Sound Recordings, William Henslee

Journal Publications

This Article discusses the need for the United States to implement a public performance royalty for sound recordings. Under the current system, song writers are compensated for the use of their musical works, but performers on sound recordings do not receive any compensation. Radio and television stations currently pay the performing rights societies a royalty for playing the sound recordings, but they do not pay a performance royalty to the artists who perform the music and record companies that promote and release the sound recordings. Proposed legislation will add a performance royalty for artists and record companies to the current …

Orphan Works And The Google Book Search Settlement: An International Perspective, Bernard Lang

NYLS Law Review

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Finding A Home For Orphans: Google Book Search And Orphan Works Law In The United States And Europe, Katharina De La Durantaye

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

The Google Books case and its proposed settlement have provoked heated debate. Objections to the settlement proposals have come from virtually all sides—from Google’s competitors to public interest organizations, state attorneys general, the U.S. Department of Justice, and even foreign countries such as France and Germany. While it is impossible to know what the terms of the final settlement will be, it is already clear that one of the settlement’s most important consequences will be how it changes the orphan works debate, both in the United States and in Europe. This Article argues that the Google Books case offers an …

Twittergate: Rethinking The Casting Director Contract, Carter Anne Mcgowan

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Copyright Enforcement In The Cloud, Marc Aaron Melzer

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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The Fate Of Indecency? The Constitutional Issue Presented By Fox Television Stations, Inc. V. Federal Communications Commission, Francis Marsico Iii

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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D Is For Digitize: An Introduction, James Grimmelmann

NYLS Law Review

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The Google Book Settlement And The Fair Use Counterfactual, Matthew Sag

NYLS Law Review

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H Is For Harmonization: The Google Book Search Settlement And Orphan Works Legislation In The European Union, Katharina De La Durantaye

NYLS Law Review

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Continued Doj Oversight Of The Google Book Search Settlement: Defending Our Public Values And Protecting Competition, Christopher A. Suarez

NYLS Law Review

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Software Wars: The Patent Menace, Andrew Nieh

NYLS Law Review

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Bayer Schering Pharma Ag V. Barr Laboratories, Inc., Joshua Zarabi

NYLS Law Review

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Reverse Payments: When The Federal Trade Commission Can Attack The Validity Of Underlying Patents, Gabrielle Lahatte

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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Warrantless Use Of Gps Tracking Devices: Fourth Amendment Protection Restored Through Application Of An Analytical Framework, The, David Myers

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta): An Assessment, Dalindyebo Shabalala

School of Law Faculty Publications

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (‘ACTA’) is motivated by the perceived lack of progress of multilateral enforcement of intellectual property rights. Building on the equivalent provisions in EU and US bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs), the ACTA parties sought to establish best practice international standards to which other countries could aspire or adhere. Proponents stressed the need to combat the increase in global piracy and counterfeiting, drawing on estimates of the scale of the problem, such as those from the OECD that suggested international trade in counterfeit and pirated products amounted to some $200 billion in 2005 (excluding domestically …

Drawing A Line In The Sand: Copyright Law And New Museums, Megan M. Carpenter

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Over the last twenty years, audience attendance at museums, galleries, and performing arts institutions in the United States has decreased dramatically. Major museums and galleries are considering ways to add engaging and meaningful value to the user experience with technology, from incorporating user-generated content to creating multimedia installations billed as "collaborative" works.

In 2010, the Dallas Museum of Art's Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea exhibition featured landscapes from 1850 to the present, as well as a sound installation composed by students and faculty at a local university, which played on speakers throughout the show and responded directly to the …

Intergenerational Progress, Brett Frischmann, Mark P. Mckenna

Journal Articles

This Essay prepared for the Wisconsin Law Review’s symposium on Intergenerational Equity lays the groundwork for a broader understanding of the goals of IP law in the United States by arguing that there is room for a normative commitment to intergenerational justice. First, we argue that the normative basis for IP laws need not be utilitarianism. The Constitution does not require that we conceive of IP in utilitarian terms or that we aim only to promote efficiency or maximize value. To the contrary, the IP Clause leaves open a number of ways to conceive of Progress; courts’ and scholars’ overwhelming …

Strategic Spillovers, Daniel B. Kelly

Journal Articles

The conventional problem with externalities is well known: Parties often generate harm as an unintended byproduct of using their property. This Article examines situations in which parties may generate harm purposely, in order to extract payments in exchange for desisting. Such “strategic spillovers” have received relatively little attention, but the problem is a perennial one. From the “livery stable scam” in Chicago to “pollution entrepreneurs” in China, parties may engage in externality-generating activities they otherwise would not have undertaken, or increase the level of harm given that they are engaging in such activities, to profit through bargaining or subsidies. This …

The Elephantine Google Books Settlement, James Grimmelmann

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The genius - some would say the evil genius - of the proposed Google Books settlement was the way it fuses legal categories. The settlement raised important class action, copyright, and antitrust issues, among others. But just as an elephant is not merely a trunk plus legs plus a tail, the settlement was more than the sum of the individual issues it raised. These “issues” were really just different ways of describing a single, overriding issue of law and policy - a new way to concentrate an intellectual property industry.

In this essay, I argue for the critical importance of …

Masthead, Volume 2 Issue 1 (2011)

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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Pay Per Click: Keyword Advertising And The Search For Limitations Of Online Trademark Infringement Liability, Thomas H. Watson

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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Masthead, Volume 2 Issue 2 (2011)

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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Masthead, Volume 3 Issue 1 (2011)

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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When Everyone Is The Judge's Pal: Facebook Friendship And The Appearance Of Impropriety Standard, Daniel Smith

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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Volume 2 Issue 1 (2011), Journal Of Law, Technology, & The Internet

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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Volume 2 Issue 2 (2011), Case Western Reserve Journal Of Law, Technology & The Internet

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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Short-Sighted Value Of Inefficiency: Why We Should Mind The Gap In The Reimbursement Of Outpatient Prescription Drugs, The, Jennifer L. Herbst

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

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