Celebrity Rights and Retail Appropriation
In the age of Instagram, Tumblr and other social networking sites models like Cara Delevingne are the perfect representation of a new age where models have learned how to brand…
Amazing Case: The Dangerous Precedent of the Injunction Against Amazing Grace
On September 4, just hours after legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin submitted her complaint, a federal judge granted an emergency temporary injunction to enjoin Allen Elliot’s Amazing Grace documentary from…
Journal of Patent & Trademark Office Society’s Mid-Atlantic student writing competition
Re-posted from http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2015/09/journal-of-patent-trademark-office.html 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…
Research Associate position available in Privacy and Cybersecurity
The Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking a Research Associate with a principal focus on privacy and cybersecurity. This position will…
Supreme Court update: Decision in Commil USA LLC v. Cisco Systems Inc.
Today, the Supreme Court held that a good faith belief that a patent is invalid is not a defense to induced infringement. Read the opinion here.
Fall Internship Opportunity at Wikipedia
Job Description: Legal Intern (San Francisco, CA) Summary If you’re a current law student or recent law school graduate passionate about free knowledge and open source issues, applying to our legal internship…
JIPEL Vol. 4, No. 2 – Spring 2015
The NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law is proud to present Volume 4 Issue 2 of the Journal. While individual PDFs of articles may be found accompanying their…
Brief of Amici Curiae Law, Business and Economic Scholars in Support of Respondents in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. V. CLS Bank International, et. al.
A well-defined § 101 ensures that abstract software patent claims and their attendant notice and patent thicket problems do not undermine the patent system and stymie innovation. It serves as…
The Current State of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings: Recent Federal Court Decisions in California and New York against Sirius XM Have Broader Implications than Just Whether Satellite and Internet Radio Stations Must Pay for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
Federal copyright law applies to sound recordings, but only to those fixed, i.e., produced, on or after February 15, 1972. Recordings produced prior to that date are subject to protection…
Copyright Law and Its Parody Defense: Multiple Legal Perspectives
In the United States, whether a disputed work qualifies as a parody is critical, if not determinative, to the success of a fair use defense in copyright lawsuits. How can…