Pixelization

Intellectual property and entertainment law.

Author: Eric E. Johnson is law professor at the University of North Dakota. He also authors The Backbencher.

Blawg Related Categories: Entertainment & Sports Law • Intellectual Property Law • University of North Dakota • Law Professor

Recent Posts from Pixelization

Public Domain Source of the Month: The Library of Congress, American Memory
The Library of Congress's American Memory project began as a pilot program in 1990 endeavoring to digitize and make accessible some of its massive holdings. Originally, the program centered around making materials available on CD-ROM.…
Konomarking Flickr Photos
I’ve “konomarked” 146 photos on my Flickr photostream. See it here. By konomarking them, I’m inviting you and anyone else who wants to use them for free to e-mail me to ask permission. You can…
Public Domain Source of the Month: USDA
There's something culturally essential about farm imagery. Identifying farm animals is one of the first things a baby learns - even though, in the suburbs and cities, most children will rarely encounter them. Why don't…
Museum of IP: Festo
Amending patent claims creates a presumption against the inventor under the doctrine of equivalents Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd. in the Supreme Court of the United States 535 U.S. 722 (2002)…
Museum of IP: Recording Industry Associaton of America v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.
The record industry fails to stop the MP3 player Recording Industry Associaton of America v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir.…
The Museum of Intellectual Property
Perhaps more than any other field of law, intellectual property calls for illustration. That is because the history and, ultimately, the very meaning of IP law itself, is bound up with the inventions, artistic works,…
Did Hershey's Just Abandon its Trademark?
Here is something I picked up at the local Target store. It's a Hershey's-brand three-compartment silicone muffin pan. When you bake muffins in this pan, they come out - adorably, of course - in the…
Public Domain Source of the Month: Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at Johns Hopkins University
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music of the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University contains over 29,000 pieces of sheet music, predominantly popular American music from the 1800s and early 1900s. It is…
Meet the Merchandising Deal
So much of trademark use in merchandising depends on a legal fiction that is quite absurd. That is, that the licensed names and images serve a trademark source-identifying function, rather than merely being decoration. For…
Copysquare - A Sharing License Designed for Nano Media
Creativity has always been widespread. But the means of turning mere talent and spark into actual movies, television shows, radio programs, recorded music, and other fully produced media has long been concentrated in Hollywood and…