Public Law and Legal Theory Abusive Trademark Litigation and the Shrinking Doctrine of Consumer Confusion: Rethinking Trademark Paradigms in the Context of Entertainment Media and Cyberspace By: Kevin J. Greene Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 27 (forthcoming) This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at:
During the twentieth century, virtually all western democracies saw growing media concentration as a threat to freedom of the press and to democracy. Most adopted laws to support press diversity, whether through competition (antitrust and media specific) laws or subsidy arrangements, often subsidies targeted specifically to support weaker competing
The central premise of this issue of the WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW is that popular media1 can influence behavior in ways that implicate the segments of the legal system that impose liability on those who cause harm to others.2 This Article considers another type of influence that can be traced to popular
Recent mergers and academic commentary have placed renewed focus on what has long been one of the central issues in media policy: whether media conglomerates can use vertical integration to harm
Statistical and Economic Approaches to Legal History (Forthcoming in UNIV. OF ILL. L. REV. (2002)) Daniel Klerman USC Law and Economics & Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 02-6 LAW AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH PAPER SERIES