Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum, Volume 4, Issue 2, Spring 2014
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Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum, Volume 4, Issue 2,
Spring 2014
Abstract
This issue of Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum includes articles on the
modern legal issues & developments affecting fashion, the Internet, music, film, international sports,
constitutional law & the lives of celebrities.
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MODERN LEGAL ISSUES & DEVELOPMENTS AFFECTING
FASHION, THE INTERNET, MUSIC, FILM, INTERNATIONAL SPORTS,
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & THE LIVES OF CELEBRITIES
ARTICLES
Cleaning Out the Closet: A Proposal to Eliminate the Aesthetic Functionality
Doctrine in the Fashion Industry
Jessie A. Maihos
The Patent Reform Debate: Has Patent Overprotection Resulted in
Not-So-Smartphones?
Ryan A. Kraski
Pinning Your Way to Copyright Infringement: The Legal Implications
Pinterest Could Face
Brittany Fink
Banksy Got Back? Problems With Chains of Unauthorized Derivative Works and
Arrangements in Cover Songs Under a Compulsory License
Matthew A. Eller
Cash From Chaos: Sound Recording Authorship, Section 203 Recapture Rights and a
New Wave of Termination
Hector Martinez
CASE NOTES
Let’s Talk About Sex: How Societal Value Evolution Has Redefined Obscenity
Kamilah Mitchell
The Copyright Infringement Test: A New Approach to Literary
Misappropriation in Film
Rikki Bahar
Protecting a Celebrity’s Child From Harassment: Is California’s Amendment to
Penal Code § 11414 Too Vague to Be Constitutional?
Michelle N. Robinson
ESSAY
Is Cricket Taxing? The Taxation of Cricket Players in India
Rishi Shroff
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Articles Editors
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Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Cleaning Out the Closet: A Proposal to Eliminate the Aesthetic
Functionality Doctrine in the Fashion Industry...................................... 299
Jessie A. Maihos
The Patent Reform Debate: Has Patent Overprotection Resulted in NotSo-Smartphones?....................................................................................... 327
Ryan A. Kraski
Pinning Your Way to Copyright Infringement: The Legal Implications
Pinterest Could Face ................................................................................. 363
Brittany Fink
Banksy Got Back? Problems With Chains of Unauthorized Derivative Works
and Arrangements in Cover Songs Under a Compulsory License .......... 403
Matthew A. Eller
Cash From Chaos: Sound Recording Authorship, Section 203 Recapture
Rights and a New Wave of Termination .................................................. 445
Hector Martinez
CASE NOTES
Let’s Talk About Sex: How Societal Value Evolution Has Redefined
Obscenity ................................................................................................... 493
Kamilah Mitchell
The Copyright Infringement Test: A New Approach to Literary
Misappropriation in Film.......................................................................... 529
Rikki Bahar
Protecting a Celebrity’s Child From Harassment: Is California’s
Amendment to Penal Code § 11414 Too Vague to Be Constitutional? ... 559
Michelle N. Robinson
ESSAY
Is Cricket Taxing? The Taxation of Cricket Players in India ................ 599
Rishi Shroff
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Article
Cleaning Out The Closet: A
Proposal to Eliminate the Aesthetic
Functionality Doctrine in the
Fashion Industry
Jessie A. Maihos*
* Jessie A. Maihos is currently working as an Intellectual
Property Attorney at IBM. She received her Intellectual
Property LL.M. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in
2014 where she was selected as an Intellectual Property &
Information Law Colloquium Fellow. She received her J.D. a (...truncated)