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Alcohol in "Flight" puts trademark laws in focus
"Trademark laws "don't exist to give companies the right to control and censor movies and TV shows that might happen to include real-world items,&…
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Intermediary Liability on the Internet - Ashley Hurst - Audio
Stanford Center for Internet and Society Speakers Series Talk - Ashley Hurst - October 25, 2012 The extent to which internet intermediaries such as Facebook an…
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Who owns a link? Google vs. European publishers...
Cross-posted from The Knockoff Economy. We have a new post up on the Freakonomics blog about the dispute between Google and a group of European newspapers. Th…
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Fair Use Prospers on Campus
Last week's decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust -- upholding the Mass Digitization Project (MPD) -- was a big victory for fair use. The MDP is a project…
Prof. Chris Sprigman - Hearsay Culture - Show #173 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technol…
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CIS Affiliates 2012-2014 Announced
We are happy to announce the new 2012-2014 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following: Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriPeter AsaroRyan CaloDanielle Ci…
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Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
“It would be absurd to say anything manufactured abroad can’t be bought or sold here,” said Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Schwartz Fellow at the N…
Prof. Madhavi Sunder - Hearsay Culture - Show #172 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technol…
The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
Book Website From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills cre…
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Apple vs. Samsung: Is Copying Theft or Innovation?
Does anyone own the rectangle? Should anyone own the rectangle?These questions may sound absurd, but they're at the heart of U.S. patent law's Battle of…
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Apple vs. Samsung
Chris Sprigman, professor of law at the University of Virginia, co-author of The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation,and CIS Affiliate Scholar dis…
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Can You Trademark Your Pot?
Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, continuing their excellent blogging (soon to be in book form) about markets succeeding in absence of intellectual property, ha…