Trademark Law and the Prickly Ambivalence of Post-Parodies
| dc.contributor.author | Colman, Charles | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-28T02:16:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-28T02:16:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This Essay examines what I call 'post-parodies" in apparel. This emerging genre of do-it-yourself fashion is characterized by the appropriation and modification of third-party trademarks-notf or the sake of dismissively mocking or zealously glorifying luxury fashion, but rather to engage in more complex forms of expression. I examine the cultural circumstances and psychological factors giving rise to post-parodic fashion, and conclude that the sensibility causing its proliferation is grounded in ambivalence. Unfortunately, current doctrine governing trademark "parodies" cannot begin to make sense of post-parodic goods; among other shortcomings, that doctrine suffers from crude analytical tools and a cramped view of "worthy" expression. I argue that trademark law-at least, if it hopes to determine post-parodies' lawfulness in a meaningful way-is asking the wrong questions, and that existing 'parody" doctrine should be supplanted by a more thoughtful and nuanced framework. | |
| dc.format.extent | 50 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Charles E. Colman, Trademark Law and the Prickly Ambivalence of Post-Parodies, 163 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 11, 60 (2014-2015) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/48564 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | |
| dc.publisher | U. Pa. L. Rev. | |
| dc.title | Trademark Law and the Prickly Ambivalence of Post-Parodies | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |