Prof @pennlaw @annenbergpenn • IP & free speech, TM, (c), publicity • Author of The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (@Harvard_Press).
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10 Mar 2022
My new @HarvLRev article is out today! In it I consider how overlapping rights in a person's identity have created an "identity thicket." The best way out is to reclaim trademark law's longstanding respect for autonomy & dignity and to employ preemption.
harvardlawreview.org/2022/03…
Trademark and unfair competition laws & state right of publicity laws are working at odds with one another. How to navigate? CTIC Prof. Jennifer Rothman’s just-published @HarvLRev article addresses the “identity thicket.” @profrothman rebrand.ly/86c1qwx
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20 May 2025
The deadline is approaching to submit your paper for the Fourth Annual Trademark and Unfair Competition Roundtable. To submit a draft paper, please fill out this form: cvent.me/RXxbZ0 & upload an anonymized version. We look forward to reading your submissions.
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Jennifer Rothman retweeted
15 Nov 2024
FanDuel, MLBPA settle player likenesses lawsuit
ICYMI @lexlanham @profrothman @devlinhartline espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/4240…
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12 Nov 2024
Next week, Jennifer Rothman will discuss the convergence of copyright and right of publicity law, and whether copyright is the appropriate framework to address the rising challenges posed by deepfakes, digital replicas and voice clones.
Join Us! copyrightsociety.org/event/2…
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29 Oct 2024
Thank you to Margo Bagley for this generous and thoughtful Jotwell review of my forthcoming article with @markpmckenna on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System." Article appearing soon in the @CalifLRev ip.jotwell.com/fraud-delays-…
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7 Oct 2024
New from @profrothman: Postmortem Publicity Rights at the Property-Personality Divide. I've already recommended it to my students. It's forthcoming in Private Law Theory & Intellectual Property, Cambridge Univ. Press 2025, eds. Balganesh et al. / papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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4 Oct 2024
Fascinating: NYT's lawyers will soon be able to review OpenAI's training data "in a secure room on a secure laptop" as part of its copyright lawsuit. Both sides have just hammered out the terms of the training data inspection:
documentcloud.org/documents/…
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4 Oct 2024
In case anyone had not realized how nutty things are getting in college sports and with NIL for student athletes—worth a read nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/co…
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13 Sep 2024
Hot of the presses, the House introduces its companion NO FAKES Act: rightofpublicityroadmap.com/…
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13 Sep 2024
Also....I meant "off" the presses, but sadly x/twitter still doesn't have the edit function.
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13 Sep 2024
I also mention in this post that another bill is likely to be introduced soon in the House (PADRA) which takes a Lanham Act-based approach
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12 Sep 2024
Don't wait – check your state's voter registration deadline today and make sure you're registered and ready to vote. And then share this with your friends and family so everyone's ready to vote early or by Election Day. VoteSaveAmerica.com/Obama
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12 Sep 2024
Finally had a chance to write-up my thoughts about the Copyright Office Report calling for Congressional Action on Digital Replicas - go.shr.lc/3ZoftPD
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12 Sep 2024
One key thing to understand about the Report is that it understandably brings to bear a copyright frame. Yet, "we need to think about [IP] rights in people differently than we think about [IP] in expressive works." I explain this more detail at: rightofpublicityroadmap.com/…
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10 Sep 2024
Finally wrote up thoughts on the NO FAKES Act, introduced right before Congress's August recess. This digital replica bill improves upon earlier version but still risks control over our own voices and likenesses and public deception. For details see rightofpublicityroadmap.com/…
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12 Sep 2024
For some thoughts on how it matches and differs from the Copyright Office approach check out my recent post on the Copyright Office's Report: rightofpublicityroadmap.com/…
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12 Sep 2024
Copyright Office suggests that a federal law should be adopted. The specifics largely track NO FAKES Act circulated the same day though parts ways in some instances. E.g., Office does not think postmortem rights necessary & recommends a fair use approach rather than exemptions
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12 Sep 2024
For more on areas of agreement and disagreement see my analysis at rightofpublicityroadmap.com/…
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12 Sep 2024
@edleeprof also has a useful comparison of the Copyright Office's recommendations versus the provisions of the Senate's proposed NO FAKES Act: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/…
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