Liz Losh explains that controversy here. I’m thinking of purchasing derivative works rights in one of his bushy eyebrows if the Catholic Church decides to license the rights to the Pope’s face, whatever those may be.

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The following is a first cut at a list of Lost Classics of Intellectual Property Law – Patent.
For background and explanation of the Lost Classics series, read this earlier post.
(Ordered alpha by author)
Donald W. Banner, Innovation, Patents and the National Interest, 12 Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 37 (1980)
Ward S. Bowman, Jr., Patent and Antitrust: A [...]

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The following is a first cut at a list of Lost Classics of Intellectual Property Law – Trademark.
For background and explanation of the Lost Classics series, read this earlier post.
(Ordered alpha by author)
Ralph S. Brown, Jr., Advertising and the Public Interest: Legal Protection of Trade Symbols, 57 Yale L.J. 1165 (1948)
Rudolf Callmann, The Law of [...]

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I’ve been following the debate over ala carte cable TV pricing, and the recent Fox/Time Warner showdown has got it back in the news. Brian Stelter’s NYT article on the topic reveals some interesting revenue figures in the cable industry:

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I’m guessing quite a few of us media/ip/tech law professor-type-folks can make use of this new site from Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped:
The site features a browsable and searchable gallery of over 100,000 print ads which I’ve categorized into tags and years, where available, cropped, scanned from books (mostly with the help of [...]

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Like Mike, I noticed Jonathan Galassi’s op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday. Galassi—the president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux—argues that ebook publishers who republish print books are committing at least a moral wrong by appropriating the work of the print publisher, even if they have the permission of the copyright owner. Mike views [...]

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I always find fair use in the United States trickier than fair dealing in the U.K. and Australia (where I first studied IP law), so I’m often surprised at the confusions about what is and what isn’t fair use in the U.S. because it doesn’t necessarily comport with what I expect.  And I know that [...]

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The following is a first cut at a list of Lost Classics of Intellectual Property Law – Copyright.
For background and explanation of the Lost Classics series, read this earlier post.
(Ordered alpha by author)
Horace G. Ball, The Law of Copyright and Literary Property (1944)
Augustine Birrell, Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in Books [...]

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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
It is 1710 all over again. Like their ancient English ancestors, 21st century book publishers are throwing authors under the bus in a race to secure rights in the electronic economy. Jonathan Galassi, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the [...]

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Apropos of Rob’s post, here is Nicholas Bramble’s very inventive take on learning via Facebook:
[A teacher at a suburban school had found] videos showing students getting into fights with one another. They posted the videos to their MySpace pages and debated who had the better fighting skills. The teacher also found footage from a [...]

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The NY Times runs a story today entitled, “How to Train the Aging Brain.” As someone with an aging brain, I was intrigued. According to the story, neural connections in your brain — those things that receive, process and transmit information — weaken with disuse and age. Is there anything that can be done? The [...]

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Excellent article in the THES on the topic. Here are some choice paragraphs:
“The argument is that better value can be driven into that system,” says Alma Swan, a former publishing industry employee who now runs Key Perspectives, a pro-open-access consultancy. “Libraries are very angry about the profits made by Elsevier, for example. If Tesco [...]

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Some time ago on this blog, I ranted a bit about how younger IP scholars either have lost the knack of knowing something about the history of the discipline – or never acquired it in the first place.
Off and on over the last year, I assembled lists of key pieces of scholarship and key [...]

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Dangerous Minds meets Harry Potter in this vid from CollegeHumor:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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