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Modify State “Piracy” After Allen: Introducing Apology To The U.S. Copyright Regime, Runhua Wang

Buffalo Law Review

Copyright protection from state offenders is onerous because of the imbalanced bargaining power between states and authors, which is increased by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Allen v. Cooper. This decision clarifies that state sovereign immunity is not abrogated by the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act of 1990 (“CRCA”). It secures states’ constitutional rights, the public interest, and the efficiency of copyright infringement litigations against states. However, a paradox of this decision is that it may harm innovation incentives or spirits of creativity due to the increased imbalanced bargaining power to prevent authors from being repaired for their economic ...

Barring Immoral Speech In Patent And Copyright, Ned Snow

SMU Law Review

In the past three years, the Supreme Court has twice ruled that Congress’s moral bars to trademark protection violate the First Amendment. Those rulings raise a simple question in other areas of intellectual property. Does the First Amendment preclude Congress from denying patent or copyright protection based on a moral reason? Congress, for instance, might deny patent protection for inventions directed toward the consumption of marijuana. Inventors would accordingly choose not to disclose knowledge about those inventions to the public, and the denial would chill their speech. Similarly, Congress would chill speech if it denied copyright protection for moral ...

The Customer Is Always Right: Trademark Law And Generic Website Names In U.S. Patent And Trademark Office V. Booking.Com B.V., Marina F. Rothberg

Boston College Law Review

In 2020, in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V., the Supreme Court clarified that the owner of a website with a descriptive domain name could trademark the name, even if it were styled “generic.com,” as long as it had acquired secondary meaning to consumers. Justice Breyer, in his dissent, vigorously argued that this ruling would limit competition. He claimed that allowing Booking.com to trademark its brand name, which contains terms that competitors use to describe similar business activities, would essentially be giving it a monopoly. This Comment supports the majority’s decision, as ...

Regulations For Smart Mobility: Proceed With Caution, Connor Saenz

Science and Technology Law Review

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Agriculture & Blockchain: Identifying Liability And Guaranteeing Quality, Morgan Crider

Science and Technology Law Review

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Gotta Catch ‘Em All! The Rise Of Esports And The Evolution Of Its Regulations, Elizabeth Chung

Science and Technology Law Review

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The Case For Dhs To Classify The Internet Of Things As Critical Infrastructure In The United States, Jessica G. Martz

Science and Technology Law Review

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Driverless Cars And Resource Allocation, Jeff Daniel Clark

Science and Technology Law Review

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Science and Technology Law Review

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To Fee Or Not To Fee: The Availability Of Attorney’S Fees In Declaratory Relief Actions For Copyright Abandonment Under The Copyright Act, Katherine Goetz

Boston College Law Review

On May 13, 2020, in Doc’s Dream, LLC v. Dolores Press, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a court has discretion under § 505 of the Copyright Act to award reasonable attorney’s fees in declaratory relief actions for copyright abandonment. In this matter of first impression, the Ninth Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California’s holding that a declaratory relief action for copyright abandonment does not invoke the fee-shifting provision under the Copyright Act. This Comment argues that the Ninth Circuit’s holding appropriately reflects ...

Digital Health Passes In The Age Of Covid-19: Are “Vaccine Passports” Lawful And Ethical?, Lawrence O. Gostin, I. Glenn Cohen, Jana Shaw

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

As COVID-19 vaccination rates in high-income countries increase, governments are proposing or implementing digital health passes (DHPs) (vaccine “passports” or “certificates”). Israel uses a “green pass” smartphone application permitting vaccinated individuals’ access to public venues (eg, gyms, hotels, entertainment). The European Union plans a “Digital Green Certificate” enabling free travel within the bloc (see eTable in the Supplement). New York is piloting an IBM “Excelsior Pass,” confirming vaccination or negative SARS-CoV-2 test status through confidential data transfers to fast-track business reopenings. This paper examines the benefits of DHPs, scientific challenges, and whether they are lawful and ethical.

Blockchain & Ccpa, Alza Jr., Gustavo

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

BLOCKCHAIN & CCPA

Is There Evidence Of Antitrust Harm In The House Judiciary Committee’S Hot Docs?, Oh, Sarah

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

IS THERE EVIDENCE OF ANTITRUST HARM IN THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE’S HOT DOCS?

Copyrighting Copywrongs: An Empirical Analysis Of Errors With Automated Dmca Takedown Notices, Seng, Daniel

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

COPYRIGHTING COPYWRONGS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ERRORS WITH AUTOMATED DMCA TAKEDOWN NOTICES

The Missing Goal-Scorers In The Artificial Intelligence Team: Of Big Data, The Fundamental Right To Research And The Failed Text And Data Mining Limitations In The Csdm Directive, Christophe Geiger

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

This article argues that recent strategies of the European Union in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) resemble a football team missing a goal-scorer to win any of the competitions with other jurisdictions having more flexible limitations to copyright, in particular with those allowing robust text and data mining (TDM) activities. It analyses the TDM limitations newly introduced in EU copyright law by the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market to show that these provisions not only fail to take duly into account the right to research grounded in the fundamental right to information, but also will not ...

Not The African Copyright Pirate Is Perverse, But The Situation In Which (S)He Lives-Textbooks For Education, Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, And Constitutionalization "From Below" In Ip Law, Klaus Beiter

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

Printed textbooks remain crucial for education, particularly in developing countries. However, in many of these countries, textbooks are unavailable, too expensive, or not accessible in learners’ native tongues. Digital content, for many reasons, does not prove a wondrous solution. Cheaply (translating and) reproducing textbooks would be a strategy. However, reprography is highly regulated under copyright law. Copyright also adds to the cost of textbooks. The availability, accessibility, and acceptability of learning materials constitute essential elements of the right to education under international human rights law.

Intellectual property (IP) law has so far refrained from endorsing the concept of extraterritorial state ...

Barnet As Tr. Of 2012 Saretta Barnet Revocable Tr. V. Ministry Of Culture & Sports Of The Hellenic Republic, 961 F.3d 193 (2d Cir. 2020), Meghan Jackson

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

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Fighting To Protect Individual Privacy In A Rapidly Advancing Technological World, Farzana Ahmed

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

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The Nflpo: The Nfl's Private Patent Office, Paul Fina

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

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Ex Ante Intellectual Property Considerations For Small Businesses, Jason A. Sanders

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

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