Tag Archives: copyright

Notre Dame Roundtable on Drassinower, part 1

Posted on October 2, 2015 by rtushnet

Notre Dame Roundtable, What’s Wrong with Copying? (Abraham Drassinower’s book) Sponsored by the Program on Law and Market Behavior   8:40 a.m.-­‐10:15 a.m. Session I – Methodology and Implications   •           Mark Rose Historical approach: rights to manuscript or to … Continue reading →

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Notice and Notice Failure at BU, panel 5

Posted on September 26, 2015 by rtushnet

Lydia Loren – Fixation as Notice in Copyright Law   3 different roles: (1) protectability; (2) infringement—reproduction etc. require fixation; (3) preemption—no preemption for unfixed works.  What kind of a notice function might fixation play in each area?   Statutory … Continue reading →

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Notice and Notice Failure at BU, Panel 4

Posted on September 25, 2015 by rtushnet

Orly Lobel – Enforceability TBD: From Status to Contract in IP and Human Capital Law   Noncompete agreements: used to blur lines of IP regimes, make it harder to tell what is owned/ownable.  Trade secret lawsuits are used in anticompetitive … Continue reading →

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Notice and Notice Failure at BU, panel 3

Posted on September 25, 2015 by rtushnet

Pamela Samuelson – Notice Failures Arising from Copyright Duration Rules   Agrees w/ other expressions of concern about notice failures in copyright—here she focuses on notice failures related to the long duration of copyrights.  More information about work’s © status … Continue reading →

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Notice and Notice Failure at BU part 2

Posted on September 25, 2015 by rtushnet

Annemarie Bridy – Three Notice Failures in Copyright Law   Challenge of making online copyright enforcement meaningful. Notice is intimately connected to justice: usually required (except with strict liability).  Failures to appreciate its necessity/failures to appreciate its sufficiency.   Uncertain: … Continue reading →

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Notice and notice failure at BU: panel 1

Posted on September 25, 2015 by rtushnet

Graeme Dinwoodie – Trademarks and Commercial Reality: registration systems/use systems; Industrial policy/consumer protection and registered/unregistered affect notice, but not sure how much compared to patent.  Costs of inadequate notice may not be as great.  Efforts to ensure adequate notice need … Continue reading →

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Notice and Notice Failure in Intellectual Property Law at BU, keynote

Posted on September 25, 2015 by rtushnet

Boston University School of Law   Welcome and introduction: Dean Maureen O’Roarke New clinic w/MIT—representing MIT students who need legal/IP help.  Searching for an exec. director now—encourages applications.   Stacey Dogan: Meurer & James Besson’s book on patents: pointed out … Continue reading →

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AU Fair Use event: Best Practices in Fair Use/the Future

Posted on September 17, 2015 by rtushnet

Jaszi: DMCA left us somewhat bruised; the next time we set out to do something useful, we asked what could be done without requiring congressional authority?  Go back to 1991, when film scholar Kristin Thompson was prominent in the Society … Continue reading →

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AU, Copyright Advocacy and Fair Use Education 1995-2015

Posted on September 17, 2015 by rtushnet

Public Interest Copyright Advocacy and Fair Use Education 1995-2015   This event celebrates significant anniversaries of two initiatives that were launched at AUWCL – the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Digital Future Coalition, the first broad-based civil society … Continue reading →

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Journal of Patent & Trademark Office Society’s Mid-Atlantic student writing competition

Posted on September 16, 2015 by rtushnet

As the oldest publishing intellectual property law journal in America, the Journal of Patent & Trademark Office Society (JPTOS) provides a forum dedicated to the discussion of legal and technical subjects related to patent, trademark, and copyright laws.  JPTOS boasts … Continue reading →

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