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WIPIP Session 1: AI

Posted on February 2, 2024 by rtushnet

Nikola Datzov, Can AI Keep a (Trade) Secret? We’ve funneled IP protection for AI generated inventions/information to trade secrecy w/o patent or copyright for human authors/inventors. But it’s narrow protection b/c there are no choices. How can we trust AI … Continue reading →

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Artistic Expression or Crass Commercialism? Drawing the lines in Right of Publicity, Lanham Act, and Commercial Speech Cases

Posted on November 8, 2023 by rtushnet

PLI Media Law conference RT: There’s been a rapid and somewhat disorienting shift from a seemingly ever-growing First Amendment freedom of speech to a seeming indifference to speech and press based claims (as contrasted to religious freedom claims) in many … Continue reading →

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What’s next after Elster?

Posted on November 3, 2023 by rtushnet

UNH symposium: Section Two Small Panel III – What’s Next? Moderated by Peter Karol, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law RT: Organized my remarks in response to the oral arguments in Elster, hopefully not too repetitive. Strong job by gov’t … Continue reading →

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Panels on Exploring the New Constitutional Limits on Trademark Law

Posted on October 10, 2023 by rtushnet

FRIDAY, NOV 3 2023 8:45AM – 3:30PM More info ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED ATTEND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FRANKLIN PIERCE SCHOOL OF LAW OR BY ZOOM. Full program. from Blogger http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2023/10/panels-on-exploring-new-constitutional.html

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IPSC Closing Plenary Session

Posted on August 4, 2023 by rtushnet

An Author/Reader Conversation about Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022) Robert Brauneis: Three layers—(1) object of discovery: creator and innovator accounts, concerns, what kind of conditions support/hinder them in their work; (2) … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session #5 Platforms & Interfaces/IP Enforcement

Posted on August 4, 2023 by rtushnet

Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Tech Bros, Social Media, and the End of IP Financing? Ideas are nothing without financing. Banks will not give loans secured by patents; banking law constraints. How was Silicon Valley Bank able to make loans to startups before … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session #4 Innovation/Copyright

Posted on August 4, 2023 by rtushnet

Room 204 Christopher Buccafusco (w/ Joseph Blocher), Firearms, Innovation, and Regulation How do law and markets affect the pace and direction of innovation for firearm related safety in the US? Costly inefficiencies in supply and demand.         Virtually no one thinks … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session #3: Distributive Effects/Art and Music

Posted on August 3, 2023 by rtushnet

Bita Amani, Some More Equal Than Others: Critical Contexts for the (False) Promises of Intellectual Property Rights        IP and sustainable development goals: What is equality itself? Often formal equality is presented in the pretext of equal application … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

Posted on August 3, 2023 by rtushnet

Michael Carroll (w/ Peter Jaszi), Fair Use After Google and Warhol Codification is a big deal; clarifies that fair use is a distinct doctrine, whereas well into 20th century courts were using it as noninfringement. Courts weren’t using four factors … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session #1

Posted on August 3, 2023 by rtushnet

Too much to choose from; I prioritized things that were new to me. Mark Bartholomew, A Right to Be Left Dead If we can create new works in a dead author’s style after they’re gone and create conversations with them … Continue reading →

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