ARTICLES
Branding for Fun and Profit
Make Your Mark With a Great Brand! (co-author)
Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before – Mash-up of Dr. Seuss and Star Trek is Not a Fair Use
Grease Is The Word And Vape Is The Parody In This Copyright Infringement Fair Use Case (RIP Olivia Newton-John)
Big Boys Don’t Cry: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Copyright Infringement Claim Against Jersey Boys
Lounging On The Shore: Flora-Bama Lounge Loses to MTV Floribama Shore in Trademark Infringement Appeal (submitted for publication)
U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Dirty Words Can Be Registered As Trademarks Under The First Amendment
Trump Trumped: Federal Court Finds Use Of Copyrighted Music In Campaign Video Is Not A Fair Use
Diamonds Are Not Forever – Tiffany Awarded $19 Million in Trademark Infringement Suit Against Costco
It’s Amazing! – Amazon Brand Registry Program Changes Enhance Online Sellers’ Protection Against Trademark Counterfeiters
Murals And Morals: Federal Court Awards Millions for Willful Destruction of Building Artwork
Artist Who Created Droopy Eyes Sues American Eagle for Copyright Infringement (co-author)
Federal Court Orders Miami Velvet Swingers Club To Pay Almost $900,000 For Unauthorized Use Of Models’ Photos
Trayvon Martin and the Right of Publicity in Florida
What You Need to Know About Trademark Law
What You Need to Know About Trademark Dilution
What You Need to Know About Copyright Law
Office Leasing Competitors Fight Trademark Lawsuit Over Use of the Brand HQ (co-author)
The Tide Rolls Out: Appeals Court Rules Against ‘Bama in Suit Against Painter of Famous Football Scenes
Seeing Red: Washington Redskins’ Trademark Registrations are Cancelled by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Coffee Dilution: Court Finds Grounds For Ruling On Starbucks’ Famous Trademark
It’s Not Just Victoria’s Secret Trademark Dilution
Trojans Overcome Gamecocks in Battle of the SC Logos
The Court’s Gone Wild! – Keeping Abreast Of Developments In Florida’s Publicity And Privacy Laws
Copyright Porno Predators Get Their Comeuppance in Court
Smut in Cyberspace
Fla “Apprentice” Trumps Domain Cybersquatter
Face-Off! Tattoo Artist Sues Studio For Copyright Infringement To Knock Out Boxer’s Tattoo In Movie
Florida Enacts New Trademark Law
Supreme Court Rules On Trademark Fair Use
State Right Of Publicity Not Preempted By Copyright Act
National Nine Nix Nifty Non-Napster Networks
Court Rules ESPN Didn’t Defame Evel Knievel
Seeing Red Native Americans 2, WA Redskins 1
Copyright Act Preempts Licensor’s State Law Claims
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Noncommercial Use of Trademark as Domain Name is Legal
Seeing Red – Native Americans Try to Cancel Redskins Trademark
Is it Now or Never? A Performer’s Right Of Publicity May Endure Although He Has Left The Stage Forever
Great Grokster! Nifty Non-Napster Networks Not Nixed
Thumbing Along the Information Highway
The Wind Done Gone – Copyright Fair Use
Happy Birthday Mickey! Copyright Term Extension Act_
Can You Be Master of Your Domain in a Web of Cybersquatters
Ninth Nixes Napster’s Nifty Network
Don’t Play With Barbie! (by Sharon Ellis)
Florida Bar Journal Articles:
Cyberlaw and Computer Technology: A Primer on the Law of Intellectual Property Protection
As Fair as They Wanna Be: The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Fair Use Parody Defense
Chips, Locks and Video Games – Courts Rule on the Scope of Protection in Computer Copyright Cases
Computer System Malfunction Remedies
Ownership of Computer Programs and Other Copyrighted Works
Computer Law – Technology Transfer and Licensing
Contracting for Computer Equipment, Software and Services
A Primer on the Law of Software Protection |