Courses and Old Exams

Writings

Judges as Bad Reviewers: Fair Use and Epistemological Humility, LAW & LITERATURE (forthcoming 2012).

 

Looking at the Lanham Act: Images in Trademark and Advertising Law, 48 HOUSTON L. REV. 861 (2012).

 

Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law, HARV. L. REV. (forthcoming January 2012).

 

Scary Monsters: Hybrids, Mashups, and Other Illegitimate Children, 86 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2133 (2011).

 

Towards Symmetry in the Law of Branding, 21 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 971 (2011).

 

THE LAW OF ADVERTISING AND MARKETING (casebook, beta version 2011). With Eric Goldman. Email me for more information.

 

Remix nation, Communications of the ACM, vol. 54, no. 9, at 1 (Sept. 2011)

 

Book Review (Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective), 2 I.P. L. BOOK REV. 1 (2011).

 

How to Suppress Women’s Remix, 77 CAMERA OBSCURA 131 (2011). With Francesca Coppa.

 

Running the Gamut from A to B: Federal Trademark and False Advertising Law, 159 U. PENN. L. REV. 1305 (2011). 721 (2010).

 

Attention Must Be Paid: Commercial Speech, User-Generated Ads, and the Challenge of Regulation, 58 BUFFALO L. REV. 721 (2010).

 

I Put You There: User-Generated Content and Anticircumvention, 12 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 889 (2010).

 

Hybrid Vigor: Mashups, Cyborgs, and Other Necessary Monsters, 6 I/S: J. L. & POL. INFO. SOC. 1 (2010).

 

Unfair Competition and Uncommon Sense, 95 IOWA L. REV. BULL. 17 (2009).

 

Fighting Freestyle: The First Amendment, Fairness, and Corporate Reputation, 51 B.C. L. REV. 1457 (2009).

 

Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace Assumptions, 51 WM. & MARY L. REV 513 (2009).

 

Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment, 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 110 (2008) (PDF).

 

User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice, 31 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2008) (PDF).

 

It Depends on What the Meaning of "False" Is: Falsity and Misleadingness in Commercial Speech Doctrine, 41 LOYOLA L.A. L. REV. 101 (2008) (PDF).

 

Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science, 86 TEX. L. REV. 507 (2008) (PDF).

 

Truth and Advertising: The Lanham Act and Commercial Speech Doctrine, in TRADEMARK LAW & THEORY: A HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH (Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis eds., forthcoming 2008 from Edward Elgar Press) (PDF).

 

Sight, Sound, and Meaning: Teaching Intellectual Property with Audiovisual Materials, 52 ST. LOUIS UNIV. L.J. (2007) (PDF).

 

Naming Rights: Attribution and Law, 2007 UTAH L. REV. 781 (2007) (PDF).

 

Payment in Credit: Copyright Law and Subcultural Creativity, 70 L. & CONTEMP. PROBS. 135 (2007) (PDF version).

 

Trademark Law as Commercial Speech Regulation, 58 S. CAR. L. REV. 737 (2007) (PDF).

 

Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and the Rights of the Author, in FANDOM: IDENTITIES AND COMMUNITIES IN A MEDIATED WORLD (Jon Grey et al. eds., 2007) (NYU Press).

Why the Customer Isn’t Always Right: Producer-Based Limits on Rights Accretion in Trademark, 116 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 352 (2007) (PDF version).

Domain and Forum: Public Space, Public Freedom, 30 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2007) (Word) (PDF version).

My Fair Ladies: Sex, Gender, and Fair Use in Copyright, 15 AM. U. J. GENDER, SOC. POL’Y & L. 273 (2007) (PDF).

Creating in the Shadow of the Law, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE, vol. 1 (Copyright and Related Rights) (Peter K. Yu, ed., Praeger Perspectives 2007) (link to publisher's site).

My Library: Copyright and the Role of Institutions in a Peer-to-Peer World, 53 UCLA L. REV. 977 (2006) (PDF).

Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It, 114 YALE L.J. 535 (2004) (PDF).

Even More Parodic Than The Real Thing: Parody Lawsuits Revisited, with Bruce Keller, 94 TRADEMARK REPORTER 979 (2004) (PDF).

Copyright as a Model for Free Speech Law: What Copyright Has in Common with Campaign Finance Reform, Hate Speech and Pornography Regulation, and Telecommunications Regulation, 42 B.C. L. REV. 1 (2001) (html).

Note, Rules of Engagement, 107 YALE L.J. 2583 (1998) (PDF). Winner of the 1997-98 Israel H. Peres Prize for best student Note in the Yale Law Journal.

Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law, 17 LOY. L.A. ENT. L.J. 651 (1997) (PDF). Winner of the 1997 Nathan Burkan Prize for best paper in the field of copyright.

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