Intellectual Property
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- Internet
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Recent Publications
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Google's Book Project |
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Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Google believes so. Its agents are copying books by the truckload. Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and the Universities of California, Michigan, Texas, and Virginia have opened their doors (and stacks) to the project. Estimated conservatively, Google is copying tens of thousands of books each week. Agreements with publishers cover some of this copying, but much of it is done without permission.... |
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Major League Baseball Advanced Media Whiffs in Federal Court: The Right of Publicity and the First Amendment Collide on the Base Paths |
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In recent decades, Major League Baseball has made great strides in developing its business operation. No longer content to make money from tickets, concession sales, and a few radio and TV contracts, it has created an entirely new joint venture, Major League Baseball Advanced Media (“BAM”), that allows the baseball club owners to fully monetize not only the games themselves but nearly every aspect of the sport’s appeal.... |
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Engage Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2008 |
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Intellectual Property: American Exceptionalism or International Harmonization? - Event Audio |
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The Federalist Society's Intellectual Property Practice Group presented this panel discussion at the 2007 Annual National Lawyers Convention on November 17, 2007. Panelists included Prof. Shubha Ghosh of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Prof. F. Scott Kieff of Washington University in St. Louis, Prof. Adam Mossoff of Michigan State University College of Law, Prof. Steven M. Tepp of the U.S. Copyright Office, and Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. |
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