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Reading list: Rothman on (c)/right of publicity conflicts

Posted on August 16, 2016 by rtushnet

Jennifer Rothman, The Other Side of Garcia: The Right of Publicity and Copyright Preemption, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2016. Abstract: This essay is adapted from a talk that I gave on October 2, … Continue reading →

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Reading list: the First Amendment and the FDA

Posted on July 26, 2016 by rtushnet

Christopher Robertson, A Trojan Horse? How Expansion of the First Amendment Threatens Much More than the Regulation of Off-Label Drugs, forthcoming, __ Ohio State Law Journal __ (2017) Abstract: Scholars, advocates, and courts have begun to recognize a First Amendment … Continue reading →

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Judge McKeown on copyright, and responses (including mine)

Posted on June 28, 2016 by rtushnet

Hon. M. Margaret McKeown,  Censorship in the Guise of Authorship: Harmonizing Copyright and the First Amendment, 15 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 1 (2016) Margaret Chon, Copyright’s Other Functions, 15 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 364 Edward Lee, Suspect Assertions of Copyright, … Continue reading →

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Reading List: The Copyright Wars

Posted on June 23, 2016 by rtushnet

Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (2014) Baldwin’s basic proposition is that there has been a long history of struggles between creators, distributors and the public, and a related struggle between the idea of Continental authors’ … Continue reading →

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Reading list: Choreographing Copyright

Posted on May 11, 2016 by rtushnet

Anthea Kraut, Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance: Fascinating study of the complexities of claiming rights in a world in which asserting property rights is a measure of one’s humanity—and in which white women have … Continue reading →

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User-generated discontent: patents, gender, and innovation

Posted on April 1, 2016 by rtushnet

The NYT has a fascinating story about innovation, menstruation, and the challenges of seeking backing for a project that combines the two. from Blogger http://ift.tt/25AEJ1E

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Reading list: dilution fails an empirical test

Posted on March 14, 2016 by rtushnet

Christo Boshoff , The lady doth protest too much: a neurophysiological perspective on brand tarnishment, 25 J. Product & Brand Management (2016):   [C]onsumers’ emotional responses to a series of brand tarnishment advertisements are investigated in this study. The purpose … Continue reading →

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Reading list: the class action as trust

Posted on February 16, 2016 by rtushnet

Sergio J. Campos, The Class Action as Trust.  Abstract: The class action is controversial because the class attorney can litigate or settle the claims of the class members without their consent. Many scholars have turned to corporate law to address … Continue reading →

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Reading list: Feminist values in the Archive of Our Own

Posted on February 10, 2016 by rtushnet

Casey Fiesler et al. have written An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design (CHI 2016), a paper about feminist principles and human-computer interaction in the Archive of Our Own.  As a noncommercial … Continue reading →

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Reading list: Hoofnagle on FTC Privacy Law

Posted on February 1, 2016 by rtushnet

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (2016) Review copy. The book will be available on Amazon Feb. 5.  This is a detailed, clearly written guide to the FTC, with specific attention to its privacy practices but … Continue reading →

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