This short paper was prepared as a handout for a presentation given for the National Conference of Law Reviews, Baltimore, MD, March 22, 2001. It discusses copyright law from the perspective of law professors and other authors who plan to submit, or have submitted articles to law reviews, and...

In June of 2007, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled on a motion to dismiss various claims against the Youtube video-sharing service. The claimant was Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corp ("Universal"), a manufacturer of pipes and tubing products. Since...

In 1992, Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), a statute designed to prevent the further spread of state-sponsored sports-wagering. The statute’s language has the effect of granting a property right to sports leagues, implicating the Constitution’s...

This contains the basic rules of procedure in filing cases for violation of intellectual property rights. Jurisprudence on infringement of patents, trademarks/tradenames and copyrights are also discussed

Countries face a new threat that strikes at their ability to balance protection of intellectual property rights against other priorities, such as public health. They may have to pay substantial compensation to companies that dislike domestic intellectual property laws. This threat is much more...

In 2006 the Australian Government undertook extensive amendment of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Draft bills relating to technological protection measures and exceptions were released for public comment in September. Some of the provisions of those draft bills were amended on the basis of the...

This article examines the author's right of integrity of authorship contained in the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), which is the right of an author to object to a 'derogatory treatment' of his or her work. A treatment of a work is derogatory if it is 'prejudicial to the author's honour or...

As is typical of a Breyer opinion, Unicolors v. H&M—the only IP decision this Term—illuminates the distinction between mistakes of fact and of law and explains the reasoning by virtue of a brief hypothetical. Imagine someone (named John) who sees a flash of red in a tree and blurts out,...

This chapter explores IP protectability of what may be broadly termed “folk music,” though, that is a term fraught with ambiguity, from an intellectual property social justice (IP-SJ) framework. Our IP-SJ approach helps illuminate how IP law and administration affect opportunities for...