Ooo, I don't think I've heard of this one before! Thank you for sharing.
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Rachael "Trademark Clippy" Dickson
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And for my favorite, I'm sharing an IP article I really grew to love way back in law school: Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song by Robert Brauneis, which traces the birthday song copyright (ruled invalid in 2016). scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publ... Thanks in advance for your reccs!
Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song"Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many - including Justice Breyer in his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft - have portrayed it as an unoriginal work tha...scholarship.law.gwu.eduAnd of course, in turn, I'll share my own choices: Alex Roberts' Trademark Failure to Function article is incredibly important and does a great job of explaining an area of trademark law that confuses even long time practitioners at times. @lexlanham.bsky.social ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.la...
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