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Conspicuous Consumers, NYU Engelberg Center

Posted on October 17, 2025 by rtushnet

Welcome and Keynote: Nancy Mahon, SVP, Global Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability, The Estée Lauder Companies Interesting talk; I learned that UK consumers respond well to claims that a product decreases the company’s carbon footprint, but US consumers aren’t interested in … Continue reading →

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IPSC: Closing plenary: DOGE; the First Amendment (me!); and the 50th anniversary of the Copyright Act

Posted on August 8, 2025 by rtushnet

David Schwartz (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law), Christopher Cotropia (The George Washington University Law School), DOGE Days at the USPTO? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Administrative Reform PTO provides some employees w/union protections and others not. As soon as … Continue reading →

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The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical and Legal Questions: Northeastern University School of Law

Posted on April 11, 2025 by rtushnet

 Panel 3 – Media and Communication Systems for Attention Capture  This panel will address how different fields, from media studies to economics, think about attention, how it is captured and valued. Do different types of media (political news, advertisements, sexual … Continue reading →

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Cardozo A&ELJ symposium, Trademark

Posted on February 16, 2024 by rtushnet

Panel #2, TM, moderated by Vice Dean Felix Wu Jack Daniels says that use as a trademark is special: like copyright’s bête noire, confusion caused by trademark use is the central concern of trademark law. While I have many questions … 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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Bad Spaniels: trademark parody and fair use doctrines at Northeastern, Apr. 13, 4 pm

Posted on April 10, 2023 by rtushnet

Join Professor Rebecca Tushnet and Professor Alexandra J. Roberts for a conversation about Jack Daniels v. VIP Products. Register here. Date and time Thursday, April 13 · 4 – 5:30pm EDT Location Northeastern University School of Law 416 Huntington Avenue Boston, … Continue reading →

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IPSC: Copyright and Trademark

Posted on August 12, 2021 by rtushnet

Panel 17 – Copyright Substantial Similarity Crossprogrammed with my panel; I came here first because I had more experience with the first paper in the other panel. Clark D. Asay, An Empirical Study of Copyright Law’s Substantial Similarity Test 1005 … Continue reading →

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another G v. O preview, shorter

Posted on October 6, 2020 by rtushnet

IPLAC/CBA (Chicago) panel Intro by Adam Wolek, Taft Law Chris Mohr, GC/VP for IP, Software & Information Indus. Ass’n.: Didn’t participate in this case b/c we have members on both sides. Tension b/t © protection of expression and functionality historically … Continue reading →

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Copyright Society panel on fair use (Warhol, Seuss, Oracle)

Posted on June 18, 2020 by rtushnet

CSUSA Fair Use panel Jennifer Pariser, MPA Joseph Salvo, Sesame Workshop Rebecca Tushnet II.  Discussion of Three Notable Fair Use Cases Currently on Appeal A.    Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. ComicMix, 372 F. Supp. 3d 1101 (S.D. Cal. 2019)Q&A:            The MPA … Continue reading →

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Copyright Society panel on fair use (Warhol, Seuss, Oracle)

Posted on June 18, 2020 by rtushnet

CSUSA Fair Use panel Jennifer Pariser, MPA Joseph Salvo, Sesame Workshop Rebecca Tushnet II.  Discussion of Three Notable Fair Use Cases Currently on Appeal A.    Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. ComicMix, 372 F. Supp. 3d 1101 (S.D. Cal. 2019)Q&A:            The MPA … Continue reading →

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