- Unintended Consequences: State Merger Statutes and Nonassignable Licenses
By: Joshua G. Graubart
The confused state of most state corporate merger statutes allows many intellectual property licenses to find their way into unintended hands by way of corporate merger, in spite of non-assignment ...
- Online Defamation: Bringing the Communications Decency Act of 1996 in Line With Sound Public Policy
By: Ryan W. King
According to the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a provider of an interactive computer service cannot be held liable for publishing a defamatory statement made by another party. In addition, ...
- Strengthening the Distinction Between Copyright and Trademark: The Supreme Court Takes a Stand
By: Jessica Bohrer
Until recently, the question of whether §43 of the Lanham Act prevented the unaccredited copying of an un-copyrighted work was an open one. However, in Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox, the ...
- Are We Legislating Away Our Scientific Future? The Database Debate
By: Dov Greenbaum
The ambiguity of the present copyright laws governing the protection of databases creates a situation where database owners, unsure of how IP laws safeguard their information, overprotect their data with oppressive ...
- Students, Music and the Net: A Comment on Peer-To-Peer File Sharing
By: David L. Lange
As most of the public now know, the recording industry has lately filed civil suits alleging copyright infringement against hundreds of individual defendants across the country, many (I think most) ...
