JIPEL Vol. 11 – No. 3
Our Spring 2022 Issue—Volume 11, Issue 3—considers intellectual property debates happening across the world. We begin in India, where a pending copyright case threatens access to academic literature. Authors M…
The Author Series: Ep. 3 – Trademarks, Trade Dress, and the Patient Costs of Pharmaceutical Branding
Professor Sam Halabi from Georgetown Law joins us to discuss his new piece featured in the latest issue of JIPEL. This thought-provoking discussion highlights a little-discussed area of intellectual property…
Trademarks, Trade Dress, and the Patient Costs of Pharmaceutical Branding
Sam F. Halabi* Download a PDF version of this article here. Watch our third episode of The Author Series featuring Professor Halabi here. While the high cost of prescription drugs…
JIPEL Vol. 11 – No. 2
Our Fall 2021 Issue—Volume 11, Issue 2—contains three articles that challenge current perceptions and practices in our intellectual property system. The articles not only offer rich analyses but also propose…
Locast and The Legislative History of 17 U.S.C. § 111(a)(5)
Zachary J. Bass* Download a PDF version of this article here. ‘The American people have given you something really valuable, the airways, for free,’ he said, talking about the broadcasters,…
Literary Landlords in Plaguetime
Brian L. Frye* Download a PDF version of this article here. Copyright & Its Discontents Copyright Theory The Economic Theory of Copyright Moral Theories of Copyright Copyright as Property Coprygith…
An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright Fair Use Opinions Updated,
1978-2019
Barton Beebe* Download a PDF version of this article here. Watch our second episode of The Author Series featuring Professor Beebe here. Read JIPEL’s letter regarding data validation for this…
Charging Bull, Fearless Girl, Artistic Composition, and Copyright
Richard Chused* Download a PDF of this article here. Introduction I. A Tale of Compositional Conflict A. A Brief History of Charging Bull B.Origins of Fearless Girl and Subsequent Controversy…
Copyright in the Texts of the Law: Historical Perspectives
Recently, state governments have begun to claim a copyright interest in their official published codes of law, in particular arguing that ancillary materials such as annotations to the statutory text…
Of Mouse and Men: Will Mickey Mouse Live Forever?
Mickey Mouse, the iconic mascot of the Walt Disney Company, is one of the most recognizable and beloved characters in the world.