Jeanne Fromer

Interesting IPSC project by @sarimazzurco.bsky.social (forthcoming in Michigan Law Review) on the use of trademarks by unions, with a lovely shoutout to our shared home neighborhood of Flatbush

A sportswear brand vs. an Ivy League school: Columbia sues Columbia Columbia Sportswear says the university violated a contract between the two regarding the use of the name Columbia on shirts, sweatshirts and hats.

Columbia Sportswear v. Columbia University: without the underlying agreement here, Columbia University has a decent claim because it's so much older

Thanks to @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social @design-law.bsky.social and friends for organizing this IP Summer Camp event and for helpful and constructive feedback on my project with @cjsprigman.bsky.social on "An Integrative Theory of Design and Utility Patents"

Last fall, the editors of the Harvard Law Review invited me to write the Foreword for this year's Supreme Court issue.

My working draft is below, and comments are most welcome.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Copyright Law: Cases and Materials Authored by Profs. Jeanne C. Fromer and Christopher Jon Sprigman (both of NYU School of Law).

.@jeannefromer.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the release of Copyright Law: Cases and Materials v7.0, our freely-licensed copyright textbook, which has been adopted at over 100 schools (that we know of) so far. You can download it for free at www.copyrightbook.org. 1/

Two days left!

It's interesting how much work has been done on artificial intelligence than on artificial wisdom.

How Amazon is Changing the US Trademark System There’s a reason you see all those nearly identical listings with weird titles—and it’s swamping federal offices with trademark applications

In honor of Prime Day, I discuss with NYU News my forthcoming article with @markpmckenna.bsky.social on Amazon's quiet overhaul of the trademark system (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

This is called "going on holiday"

Enjoying ISHTIP’s 16th annual workshop in Madrid, this year on intellectual property and capitalism, where I’ll be talking about Vinicius Bogea Camara’s provocative paper on “Indiffernce and Saturarion: The Dilemma of Brands in Search or a Consumer.” Some highlights so far ishtip.org/wp-content/u...

Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

Are AI bots knocking cultural heritage offline? After talking to dozens of GLAM institutions over the past few months, the answer in our new GLAM-E Lab report seems to be “yes”
www.glamelab.org/products/are...

Unwarranted Warrants? An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review in Search and Seizure - Harvard Law Review Every year, police perform searches governed by the Fourth Amendment on hundreds of thousands of individuals and their property throughout the United States. Many of the academy’s most decorated schol...

This is a super-cool article looking at 33,000+ search warrant applications filed electronically in Utah to figure out how long it takes to review warrant applications, how often they are granted, and the like.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Always a treat to be at UPenn for the Copyright Scholarship Roundtable, where I'm commenting on a new paper on copyright disincentives in the music industry based on "Blurred Lines"-like litigation by Tom Haley www.law.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...

Excited to present my long-simmering work on an integrative theory of design and utility patents with @cjsprigman.bsky.social in this fantastic workshop series

Excited to be in Santiago at Universidad de Chile for the XXVIII Conferencia Anual de ALACDE on law and economics, where I am speaking about my empirical work on trademark law with Barton Beebe and Stein asociacionalacde.org/alacde-xxviii/

Nooks & Crannies Revisionist History · Episode

I'm featured in a new Revisionist History podcast episode on Nooks & Crannies (and protecting recipes via trade secret) open.spotify.com/episode/1o9T...

James v UMG - Salt N Pepa termination complaint

What a mighty good plan: Salt N Pepa are suing UMG over their sound recordings. Salt N Pepa served notices of termination under the Copyright Act. UMG claims the termination is invalid because, among other things, the recordings were works for hire.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

A bit more than a month to go until our meeting in Madrid: please do not forget to register for your in-person/online attendance on eventbrite (especially if you are the author or presenter)!

Justice David Souter Was the Antithesis of the Present His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint.

Beautiful, touching tribute to our boss, by Jeannie Suk Gersen

IP Hall of Fame inductees for 2025 revealed Rochelle Dreyfuss, Eeva Hakoranta, Barbara Ringer and Manny Schecter are the outstanding individuals selected for induction this year

Huge congratulations to 2025 IP Hall of Fame inductee (and Engelberg Center Co-Director) Rochelle Dreyfuss!

www.iam-media.com/article/ip-h...

David H. Souter, Republican Justice Who Allied With Court’s Liberal Wing, Dies at 85

I take issue with only one sentence in Linda Greenhouse's tribute to Justice Souter. She writes, "There are no immediate survivors." That is incorrect. There is a vast Souter family, including his devoted clerks. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

I'm thrilled that Sarah Seo is moving downtown to NYU @nyulaw.bsky.social! If you haven't read her first book ("Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom"), I highly recommend it www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

So excited that Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social is returning to NYU Law as a faculty member! It’s such a great feeling as Chris’s former professor. We are lucky to have him!

Well, that’s another type of designer (eye) bag 👁️ 👛 www.dior.com/en_us/beauty...

How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation The almighty algorithm is fueling conspiracy theories among young people and ruining their ability to tell fact from fiction on the internet.

Four paragraphs from the end, the author mentions that people tend to "become better at detecting falsities" as they enter adulthood. So...maybe this is just a story about that, and not anything specific to "Gen Z" or its media diet?

WIPIP trivia teammates @marklemley.bsky.social @markpmckenna.bsky.social @kristelia.bsky.social, haven’t we known this for a long time? 😉

20 years ago, the first videos uploaded to YouTube were short and sweet It’s been 20 years since “Me at the Zoo” was uploaded.

20 years ago, the first videos uploaded to YouTube were short and sweet

Q&A in which I discuss music copyright issues www.law.nyu.edu/news/ideas-m...

Duke Says ‘White Lotus’ Went ‘Too Far’ With School References In a show that features an array of disturbing story lines, the actions — and wardrobe — of a character have gone “too far” for the university.

I'm in today's NY Times discussing The White Lotus, Duke, and trademark law (Style Section again, paging @cjsprigman.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...

This started my morning off with a good laugh. Increasingly rare these days and I'm thankful for it.