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@NYULaw.bsky.social Vice Dean & Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Co-Director, @NYUEngelberg.org Center on Innovation Law & Policy

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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
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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.

29.09.2025 13:19 — 👍 3427    🔁 1215    💬 86    📌 72
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Tron: Ares Has Arrived in Paris - Go Fug Yourself Jodie Turner-Smith's dress is SO COOL.

Obsessed with Jodie Turner-Smith's Schiaparelli technology dress www.gofugyourself.com/tron-ares-ha...

25.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Future of Notice and Takedown? - Intellectual Property Michael Goodyear, Common Law Notice-and-Takedown, __ NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (April 25, 2025).Graeme DinwoodieAs Michael Goodyear notes in Common Law Notice-...

Great Jotwell post by @graemedinwoodie.bsky.social on Michael Goodyear's article "Common-Law Notice and Takedown" ip.jotwell.com/the-future-o...

25.09.2025 14:28 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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
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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
Machines as the New Oompa-Loompas: Trade Secrecy, the Cloud, Machine Learning, and Automation In previous work, I wrote about how trade secrecy drives the plot of Roald Dahl’s novel <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>, explaining how the Oompa-Loomp

"Machines as the New Oompa-Loompas: Trade Secrecy, the Cloud, Machine Learning, and Automation" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

18.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl’s "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is well-known as a dark fantasy in which five children win a visit to a whimsical candy company. Les

"Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

18.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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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
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NERDS sues DWEEBS for trademark & trade dress infringement, dilution, & false advertising

ferrara, maker of nerds, owns registrations for not only the nerds word marks, logos, & packaging trade dress but also the "pebble design" of the candy itself

pdfserver.amlaw.com/legalradar/p...

17.09.2025 18:17 — 👍 8    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1

Thank you for visiting and sharing your knowledge with our students!

16.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited to be at @umichlaw.bsky.social to present new work on “Trade Secret Societies” 🤐 Ⓜ️

15.09.2025 19:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System — California Law Review Amazon’s dominance as a platform is widely documented. But one aspect of that dominance has not received sufficient attention—the Amazon Brand Registry’s sweeping influence on firm behavior, particula...

Thrilled that my article with @markpmckenna.bsky.social on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System" is now out in the California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social

31.08.2025 21:49 — 👍 30    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
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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
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Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters Hollywood’s battle with AI is heating up.

Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

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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
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Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System — California Law Review Amazon’s dominance as a platform is widely documented. But one aspect of that dominance has not received sufficient attention—the Amazon Brand Registry’s sweeping influence on firm behavior, particula...

Thrilled that my article with @markpmckenna.bsky.social on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System" is now out in the California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social

31.08.2025 21:49 — 👍 30    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
Memes on Memes and the New Creativity Memes are the paradigm of a new, flourishing creativity. Not only are these captioned images one of the most pervasive and important forms of online creativity,

And see background work on memes, copyright, and the new creativity (with Amy Adler) at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

28.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Taking Intellectual Property into Their Own Hands When we think about people seeking relief for infringement of their intellectual property rights pursuant to copyright and trademark laws, we typically assume t

See background work on IP, shaming, and self-help (with Amy Adler) at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

28.08.2025 19:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Politicians keep using songs on social media. What if an artist doesn't like it? Having a song go viral is usually good news for an artist. But as politicians become more social media savvy and jump in on viral trends, how can musicians respond if they don't like the way a party o...

In which I talk with NPR (as does Jennifer Jenkins) both about shaming for intellectual property uses and about how memes turn copyright law on its head www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

28.08.2025 19:57 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Taking Intellectual Property into Their Own Hands When we think about people seeking relief for infringement of their intellectual property rights pursuant to copyright and trademark laws, we typically assume t

See background work on IP, shaming, and self-help (with Amy Adler at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)

28.08.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 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...

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Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology

arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06950

18.08.2025 01:52 — 👍 185    🔁 69    💬 9    📌 4
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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
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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
History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique <p><span>There are indications that the "history and tradition" approach the Supreme Court applied to gun rights and abortion restrictions may be comi

New draft from me: how the Court has (mis)handled history and tradition in First Amendment IP cases

11.08.2025 23:33 — 👍 49    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1

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