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The Pleasure Principal from Penny Lane on Vimeo.

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Nellie Bly Makes the News ***excerpt*** from Penny Lane on Vimeo.

NELLIE BLY MAKES THE NEWS (2018, 24mins, 4K video) is an animated documentary about Nellie Bly, a muckracking investigative journalist who changed the game for women in reporting before women even had the right to vote. Drawing from extensive primary sources including Bly’s own writing, and presenting both real-world interviewees and reenactments in several styles of animation and illustration, this short film investigates the porous line between reporting facts and telling stories, while creating a dynamic portrait of a woman who refused to accept the status quo.

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Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust, 755 F. 3d 87 (2d Cir. 2014)

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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc., 749 F. 2d 154 (3d Cir. 1984)

Maxwell's Video Showcase, Ltd., operated two stores in Erie, Pennsylvania. Among other things, Maxwell's sold and rented prerecorded videotapes, and rented small rooms in which up to four customers at a time could watch videos. The VCRs were operated by Maxwell’s employees from a central location. A group of movie studios sued Maxwell’s for infringing the performance right in their audiovisual works, and the 3rd Circuit found for the plaintiffs.

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Kitsch is a beautiful lie (2004) from Penny Lane on Vimeo.

The only protest I ever went to was a "march for women's lives" (abortion rights) in 2004 and this is the video I made about it. I don't really understand the video.

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The Silent Majority from Penny Lane on Vimeo.

A New York Times Op-Doc. Co-directed with Brian L. Frye. 2011.

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Gracen v. Bradford Exchange, 698 F. 2d 300 (7th Cir. 1983)

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Patent Attorney promotional brass letter openers.

“Briefly: First step in patent matter - send me sketch or model and $15 to cover search and report on patentability. First step in trade mark matter - send me a sample or sketch of mark and $15 for search and report on registrability. My booklet on patent and trade mark procedure sent free on request.”

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Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)

In Feist v. Rural, the Supreme Court held that “originality” is a constitutional requirement for copyright protection of an element of a work of authorship, and that “originality” requires both “independent creation” by the author of the work, and some degree of “creativity.” The Supreme Court held that copyright could not protect Rural’s white pages telephone directory, because the individual listings were “facts” that Rural “copied from the world” rather than “creating,” and because the “selection, ordering, and arrangement” of the listings in the directory lacked any “creativity” whatsoever.

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Stereograph Card, 3088: New Wing, Patent Office, Washington, D.C., USA (c. 1860)

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Stereograph Card: B.W. Kilburn, 6558: New Wing, Patent Office, Washington, D.C., USA (1861)

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Patent Office of the United States, Bicentennial Token (1991)

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Victor J. Evans & Co., “Certificate of Patentability” (c. 1900)

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Haelan Laboratories v. Topps Chewing Gum, 202 F. 2d 866 (2d Cir. 1953) In 1947, the Bowman Gum Company began selling baseball cards packaged with gum. Between 1948 and 1951, Bowman obtained exclusive contracts to use the name and likeness of most major league players on baseball cards. In 1951, Topps Chewing Gum began including baseball cards packaged with caramel candy. Topps obtained releases to use the name and likeness of most major league players on baseball cards. Many players under exclusive contract with Bowman also provided releases to Topps. In 1952, Haelan Laboratories purchased Bowman, and filed a tortious interference with contractual relations action against Topps. The district court dismissed the action, holding that the right of privacy was not alienable. The Second Circuit reversed, creating an alienable “right of publicity.”

Bowman Gum Co., Jerry Coleman, Baseball Picture Card no. 49 (1951) Topps Chewing Gum, Gerry Coleman, [Red Back] No. 18 of 52 (1951)

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U.S. Patent Office, Washington, D.C. (c. 1906)

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U.S. Patent Office, Washington, D.C.