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Courses, Fall 2008

Each syllabus is in Microsoft Word.
Lanham Act Seminar
Trademark and Unfair Competition

Courses, Spring 2008

Each syllabus is in Microsoft Word.
Copyright Law
Trademark and Unfair Competition

Courses, Spring 2007

Each syllabus is in Microsoft Word.
Copyright Law
Trademark and Unfair Competition

Courses, Spring 2006

Trademark and Unfair Competition
Advertising Law
Advertising Law, with all the sources listed (the short version above just says "materials for week X" when referring to the materials available as a Word document in Courseware, and is probably easier to deal with if you're taking the course, but if you aren't and want to know what cases and articles I use, the long version is for you)

Old Exams

The older these are, the poorer a guide they'll be to current practices.
 
Copyright Spring 2008 exam
Copyright Spring 2008 feedback memo
Trademark Spring 2008 exam
Copyright Spring 2007 exam
Copyright Spring 2007 feedback memo
Trademark Spring 2007 exam
Trademark Spring 2006 exam
Trademark Spring 2005 exam
Copyright Fall 2003
Copyright Spring 2003
Trademark Spring 2003
 

Writings

Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the F nmirst 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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The Georgetown IP Teaching Resources Database

The Georgetown IP Teaching Resources Database contains images, sound clips, video clips, and related material for use in teaching copyright, trademark, right of publicity, and other IP courses. Contents include works that were subjects of litigation, such as clips from the songs involved in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, as well as materials that provide useful hypotheticals for class discussion. If you teach an IP class and want access to the database, please contact me.

Copyright, Trademark & Internet

The Information Society Project at Yale
Coalition for Networked Information collection of Information Policies
Jack Balkin
James Boyle
Julie Cohen
Mark Lemley
Copyright Office FAQ
Trademarks at the PTO
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society

General Legal Resources

The Supreme Court's Official Website
Supreme Court opinions
The Constitution of the United States of America

 

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