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Jacob E. Gersen and C. Scott Hemphill
The Coca-Cola bottle is celebrated today as a design classic and the paradigmatic illustration of protected trade dress. How the Coca-Cola Company achieved that exalted position, however, is poorly understood.
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Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.
In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now.
The US Supreme Court’s decision reining in the global reach of US trademark law left practitioners questioning brand owners’ ability to combat foreign parties indirectly selling knock-offs into the country.
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