Christopher Sprigman
Colleges / Universities: New York University
Copyright and Trademarks
Description: Copyrights and trademark are both types of intellectual property (IP). Copyright is a legal term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. A trademark provides protection to the owner of the mark by ensuring the exclusive right to use it to identify goods or services, or to authorize another to use it in return for payment.
Copyright and Trademarks Scholars
David Teece
Colleges / Universities: University of California, Berkeley
Eric Goldman
Colleges / Universities: Santa Clara University
Gideon Parchomovsky
Colleges / Universities: University of Pennsylvania
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Quotes in the News
Grimmelmann, J. (2022, July 16). NPR.“We ended up with this system because in the 1990s, when the contours of the internet and copyright are still coming into view, this is the compromise that representatives of the copyright industries and the internet industries worked out.”
James Grimmelmann
TAP Scholar
Professor of Law
Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School
Cornell University
Grimmelmann, J. (2020, October 8). Ars Technica.“There's a real chance the Supreme Court could focus on this issue [the copyright status of APIs] in its decision—perhaps sending the case back down to the lower courts for even more litigation.”
James Grimmelmann
TAP Scholar
Professor of Law
Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School
Cornell University
Grimmelmann, J. (2020, June 1). Ars Technica.“It seems like the publishers have a pretty strong case. I think there are arguments for fair use, but they're not terribly strong arguments.”
James Grimmelmann
TAP Scholar
Professor of Law
Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School
Cornell University
Fromer, J. (2019, May 9). The New York Times.“It’s overreaching in terms of copyright law. The law grants certain rights, but it withholds certain others.”
Jeanne Fromer
TAP Scholar
Professor
School of Law
New York University
Janis, M. (2016, November 1). National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition”.“But there's at least a question, as far as I can tell, as to whether a road sign of this type would be deemed an official insignia of a state. I think that might be a little bit hard for the state to prove here.”
Mark Janis
TAP Scholar
Director, Center for Intellectual Property Research
Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law
Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law
Maurer School of Law
Indiana University, Bloomington
