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Intellectual Property, Fall 2012

MEDIA
Konomark
interview by Katie Fletcher,
Studio One at UND
March 1, 2012
The Battle Over “The Fighting Sioux”: An IP Perspective
interview by Steve Silver
Legal Blitz
February 18, 2012
The 5th Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100
by Molly McDonough, Sarah Randag, & Lee Rawles
ABA Journal
December 2011
Of Loopholes and Black Holes
by Juan Pedraza
UND Discovery Magazine
Autumn 2011
Legal Blogging, Ethics and First Amendment Rights
hosted by Bob Ambrogi
Lawyer2Lawyer Podcast on the Legal Talk Network
October 27, 2011
Law Reviews and ‘Cite Pimping’
by Christopher Shea
Wall Street Journal Ideas Market
July 18, 2011
Roundup: Righthaven faces PR problem in suit against N.C. man
by Steve Green
Las Vegas Sun
February 28, 2011
this WEEK in LAW Episode 96: Come Together Y'all
with Denise Howell
The TWiT Netcast Network
January 28, 2011
Blogger Sued By Copyright Troll Argues He Had 'Implied License'
by Wendy Davis
MediaPost News, Online Media Daily
August 18, 2010
Mr. Know-It-All: Sharing YouTube Revenue
by Brendan I. Koerner
Wired magazine, p. 36
August 2010
The Swamp and the Swamp Creature: Is the Law Too Complex? 
by Ashby Jones
Wall Street Journal Law Blog
July 29, 2010
CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down? 
by Eric E. Johnson
New Scientist
February 17, 2010
Law and the end of the world 
by Edwin Cartlidge
Physics World
February 2, 2010
Atom Smasher Exposes Hole in Earth’s Defenses
by Kevin Hassett
Bloomberg.com
January 11, 2010
The Case of the Collider and the Great Black Hole
physics arXiv blog
MIT Technology Review
January 5, 2010

FEATURED CONTENT
Konomark
A new way to be friendly with your intellectual property.
Willing to share it? Konomark it! The konomark is a symbol that invites people to ask to use your copyrighted work for free.
Museum of Intellectual Property
The tangible history of intangible property.
The MOIP's mission is to collect and display physical artifacts from the cases that define the law of copyright, patent, trademark, and other fields.
Torts Compendium
A free, downloadable casebook for torts.
Volume One and Volume Two can be downloaded from from SSRN.
Exam Archive
Exam booklets from past courses.
Nuclear disaster threatens a posh ski resort, imagined aliens cause a mishap at a secret lunar base, a 1975 Ford Pinto takes to the skies, and much, much more.
RECENT ARTICLES
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Negligence's X Factor
2012 Cardozo Law Review de novo 318 (2012)
What happens when you turn the Hand Formula into an equation?
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Intellectual Property and the Incentive Fallacy
39 Florida State University Law Review 623 (2012)
The foundational premise of intellectual property – that art and technology needs external rewards – is wrong.
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The NFL, Intellectual Property, and the Conquest of Sports Media
86 North Dakota Law Review 759 (2010)
Sports Law Symposium
The NFL's assertion of IP entitlements poses a threat to the freedom of the press to report about sports.
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Trade Secret Subject Matter
33 Hamline Law Review 545 (2010)
Symposium: The Evolution of Trade Secret Law: 30 Years of the UTSA
What makes a trade secret different from other kinds of business secrets?
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A Populist Manifesto for Learning the Law
60 Journal of Legal Education 41 (2010)
Learning law the hard way is not better, it is just harder.

WYPADKIS
Torts Wypadki
A wiki-powered collaborative class outline covering negligence, strict liability, intentional torts, economic torts, and more
ABC Wypadki
A wiki-powered collaborative class outline covering antitrust, bankruptcy, and consumer law
Intellectual Property Wypadki
A wiki-powered collaborative class outline covering copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, and more
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