Excited 2B at Penn for the annual Trademark & Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable, where I’m sharing new work w/ Barton Beebe & Stein on “Trademark Law’s Theory of the Image: A Computational & Empirical Analysis.” Thanks to @profrothman.bsky.social @rtushnet.bsky.social & Barton 4 organizing!
10.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time
Perhaps not surprising that 2 of these covers are at the center of well-known copyright infringement lawsuits www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
03.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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Professor Oren Bar-Gill rejoins the faculty at NYU Law this fall. Bar-Gill’s pioneering research explores how bounded rationality and cognitive biases shape contractual decision-making, particularly in consumer markets: ow.ly/jbcw50WXykF
16.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Need to Know
Christopher Morten ’15 acknowledges that becoming a law professor wasn’t his original ambition: he first planned to become a research scientist, investigating cures for cancer or infectious diseases—“...
@cmorten.bsky.social returns to NYU Law this fall. He brings with him the Science, Health, and Information Clinic, which provides legal services to researchers, patients, consumer groups, and others in the health and science space: ow.ly/gcj550X1EkL
24.09.2025 20:00 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 21360 | Ideas | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
Fantastic Willy Wonka gift for movie lovers
Was it even a question that I needed to buy this? I'm excited to build this for my office and have a working chocolate waterfall and mini Oompa-Loompas (and maybe write a 3rd piece of scholarship on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? 🤔First 2 pieces are linked below) www.lego.com/en-us/produc...
18.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Thank you for visiting and sharing your knowledge with our students!
16.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion to settle the copyright infringement lawsuit against it by authors, following Judge Alsup's fair use ruling this summer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...
05.09.2025 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!
"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"
5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU
Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!
Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!
19.08.2025 21:17 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Come to learn about how Amazon's business model has changed the operation of the U.S. trademark system, from nonsense marks to mustache tricks to trademark extortion and an increase in applications to register from small businesses. And see what this means for trademark law and policy writ large
31.08.2025 21:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chris Cotropia, @markpmckenna.bsky.social, @jnvictor.bsky.social, @rtushnet.bsky.social & @jeannefromer.bsky.social on "IP Rights as a Signal to Consumers" (a panel well represented on bluesky)
27.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Conspicuous Consumers: An Engelberg Center Symposium
Over exposed and under explored, consumers play critical roles across a range of legal doctrines. We're giving them their due.
Consumers are all over the law: consumer welfare in antitrust, consumer confusion in TM, consumer understanding of art in copyright. But what is The Consumer, really?
On 10/16 and 17, we're going to dig in.....
www.eventbrite.com/e/conspicuou...
27.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.
Interesting story in today's @nytimes.com on AI advertising avatars on TikTok, in which I discuss some legal and policy aspects
17.08.2025 19:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I'm excited that my next article, "The Administrative Law of McCarthyism," will be published in the Stanford Law Review. It explores how civil service law evolved in response to McCarthy era loyalty purges, and how courts drew on administrative law principles to fashion civil service protections.
11.08.2025 13:17 — 👍 281 🔁 91 💬 14 📌 6
I wonder what percentage of consumers make this distinction
12.08.2025 12:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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