ABSTRACT

In exchange for granting inventors a limited monopoly, the patent laws require inventors to “enable” the public to make and use their invention. In Liebel-Flarsheim Co. v. Medrad, Inc., Automotive Technologies International, Inc. v. BMW of North America, Inc., and Sitrick v. Dreamwor...   MORE>>

This commentary originally appeared as part of the inaugural Virtual Workshop sponsored by the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond School of Law. The workshop featured a paper entitled Hoisting Originality by Professor Joseph Miller, along with two commentaries on the paper...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

In United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York considered whether the use of copyrighted musical works as previews for ringtones and ringback tones was a public performance of the mu...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

Museums serve as the curators of the public trust. Historically, the federal government has supported this role through tax incentives for charitable donations to tax-exempt entities. Generally, the tax code fosters a symbiotic relationship between private taxpayer donors and muse...   MORE>>

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”—John Steinbeck

I. INTRODUCTION

As you walk through Grant Park on your way to downtown Chicago, you enjoy the ordered, natural...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

“Stop trying to treat music like it’s a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can’t be cheap either.”

Various types of disputes ...   MORE>>

“A reporter is no better than his source of information. If he can be summoned to testify in secret before a grand jury, his sources will dry up and the attempted exposure, the effort to enlighten the public, will be ended . . .[and] the reporter’s main function . . .will be to pass on to the pu...   MORE>>

“He found beyond him not God, who is the prohibition of crime, but a being who doesn’t know prohibition. Beyond what I am, I meet a being who makes me laugh because he is headless, who fills me with anguish because he is made of innocence and crime. He holds a weapon of steel in his left hand, f...   MORE>>

“When it comes to justice, the best thing to do is to tell a story about a man or a woman who effects justice, or who suffers for it, or who presumes to run roughshod over it, and to let it go at that.”[1]

JUSTICE, LEGAL OUTSIDERS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY

The concept of justice is a dominant the...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

When we think of “outsiders” in the context of law, those who often come to mind are members of disenfranchised minorities, such as the mentally challenged. But in many of Hollywood’s lawyer films, the paradigmatic and perhaps most interesting outsider is the lawyer himself....   MORE>>