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PropertyProf Blog
Varadarajan on Improvement Doctrines
By propertyprof
Deepa Varadarajan (St. John's) has posted Improvement Doctrines (George Mason) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:When one party makes significant but unauthorized improvements to another's land, chattels or informational assets, should the "improving"…
PropertyProf Blog
Mossoff on Copyright and Scholarly Publishing
By propertyprof
Adam Mossoff (George Mason) has posted How Copyright Drives Innovation in Scholarly Publishing on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Today, copyright policy is framed solely in terms of a trade off between…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Royalties During Bankruptcy
By Bryan Fears
Revenue generated by property is part of your bankruptcy estate. This includes any earnings produced by contracts that were in effect when you filed for bankruptcy. For instance, if you…
PropertyProf Blog
Is Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain?
By propertyprof
Alex Heimbach investigates the issues:The copyright to works published before 1923 have expired in the U.S. [...] Sherlock Holmes story elements—including Holmes’ deductive skills, his friendship with Watson, and his…
PropertyProf Blog
Who Owns Your Phone?
By propertyprof
Wired's Kyle Wiens argues that copyright is ruining our ability to really own physical things:Who owns our stuff? The answer used to be obvious. Now, with electronics integrated into just…
PropertyProf Blog
Balganesh on Gandhi and Copyright Pragmatism
By propertyprof
Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Penn) has posted Gandhi and Copyright Pragmatism on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Mahatma Gandhi is revered the world over for his views on freedom and non-violence, ideas that he…
PropertyProf Blog
Carrier on Limiting Copyright Through Property
By propertyprof
Michael Carrier (Rutgers - Camden) has posted Limiting Copyright Through Property (book chapter) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:In recent years, copyright has become more like property. Copyright has expanded to…
Legal Skills Prof Blog
Can You Copyright the Batmobile?
For all the intellectual property folks: Mark Towle, a California custom car designer has made replicas of the Batmobile. Warner Brothers was not happy. At issue is whether a car…
PropertyProf Blog
To What Extent Do You Teach IP?
By propertyprof
Choosing whether to include any IP in a first-year Property course is an annual dilemma for me. I suspect that for many of us Property profs, IP topics are outside…
PropertyProf Blog
Buffy v. Edward Remix Reveals Copyright Issues on YouTube
By propertyprof
If you've never seen the brilliant remix of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Twilight, which recasts the brooding romantic vampire Edward as a creepy stalker, and provides some pretty on-point…