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Christopher J Buccafusco
Edward and Ellen Marie Schwarzman Professor of Law
School of Law
buccafusco@law.duke.edu
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Selected Publications
Competition and Congestion in Trademark Law
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Texas Law Review
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2024
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Antisocial Innovation
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Georgia Law Review
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2024
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How Copyright Is Killing Creativity — Except Taylor Swift’s
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The Hill
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2024
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Technologies of Violence: Law, Markets, and Innovation for Gun Safety
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Texas Law Review
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2024
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There's No Such Thing as Independent Creation, and It's a Good Thing, Too
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William & Mary Law Review
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2023
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The Price of Fairness
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Ohio State Law Journal
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2023
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How Ed Sheeran's Serenade May Have Swayed the Jury
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Law360
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2023
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Of Bass Notes and Base Rates: Avoiding Mistaken Inferences About Copying
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Houston Law Review
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2023
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Can Neuroscience Fix Trademark Surveys?
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JOTWELL
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2023
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Framing Vaccine Mandates: Messenger and Message Effects
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Journal of Law and the Biosciences
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2022
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Pay-to-Playlist: The Commerce of Music Streaming
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UC Irvine Law Review
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2022
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Screening Meaning
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2022
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Drugs, Patents, and Well-Being
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Washington University Law Review
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2021
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Viral Sea Shanties on TikTok Expose America’s Broken Copyright System
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Business Insider
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2021
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How Many Latours Is Too Many? Measuring Brand Name Congestion in Bordeaux Wine
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Journal of Wine Economics
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2021
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Disability and Design
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New York University Law Review
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2020
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How Conceptual Art Challenges Copyright's Notions of Authorial Control and Creativity
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Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
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2020
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The Trump Administration’s Social Security Rules Will Harm Innovation in the Assistive Technology Industry and People With Disabilities
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Cardozo Law Review De-Novo
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2020
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Cleveland Baseball Team, You’re Out of Excuses – Drop Offensive Team Name Now
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The Undefeated
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2020
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Sports Teams Were Silent on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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Indian Country Today
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2020
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Teams Must Do More Than Ban Native American Headdresses, Offensive Gestures
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The Undefeated
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2020
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The Design Patent Bar: An Occupational Licensing Failure
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Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
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2019
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Intellectual Property Law and the Promotion of Welfare
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2019
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Experiments in Intellectual Property
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2019
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Fixing the Design Patent Bar: New Opportunities for Federal Lawyers
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Federal Lawyer
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2019
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Foreword
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2019
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Intelligent Design
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Duke Law Journal
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2018
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Analyzing the Law’s Effects on Human Well-Being: A Comparative Perspective
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Journal of Comparative Law
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2018
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Preserving Film Preservation From the Right of Publicity
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Cardozo Law Review De-Novo
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2018
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USPTO Should Fix Costly and Biased Design Patent Bar Rules
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Law360
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2018
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The Blurred Lines of Copyright Law Are Limiting Musical Creativity
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The Recorder
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2018
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When Social Norms for Innovation Don’t Maximize Social Welfare
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JOTWELL
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2018
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Functionality Screens
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Virginia Law Review
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2017
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The Nature of Sequential Innovation
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William & Mary Law Review
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2017
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Fashion's Function in Intellectual Property Law
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Notre Dame Law Review
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2017
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Forgetting Functionality
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University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online
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2017
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Well-Being and Public Policy
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2017
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Testing Tarnishment in Trademark and Copyright Law: The Effect of Pornographic Versions of Protected Marks and Works
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Washington University Law Review
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2016
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A Theory of Copyright Authorship
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Virginia Law Review
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2016
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Authorship and the Boundaries of Copyright: Ideas, Expressions, and Functions in Yoga, Choreography, and Other Works
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Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
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2016
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The Moral Psychology of Copyright Infringement
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Minnesota Law Review
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2016
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Innovation Heuristics: Experiments on Sequential Creativity in Intellectual Property
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Indiana Law Journal
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2016
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Copyright in the Kitchen: Exploring Protection for Recipes and Dishes
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Landslide
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2016
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Happiness and the Law
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2015
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Intellectual Property Law and Recipes
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2015
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Experimental Tests of Intellectual Property Laws' Creativity Thresholds
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Texas Law Review
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2014
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Innovation and Incarceration: An Economic Analysis of Criminal Intellectual Property Law
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Southern California Law Review
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2014
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Who Deserves Those 4 Inches of Airplane Seat Space? An Investigation Into the Economics of Reclining
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Slate
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2014
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What's a Name Worth?: Experimental Tests of the Value of Attribution in Intellectual Property
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Boston University Law Review
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2013
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Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain?: Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension
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Berkeley Technology Law Journal
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2013
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Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Duke Law Journal
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2013
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Making Sense of Intellectual Property Law
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Cornell Law Review
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2012
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The Creativity Effect
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University of Chicago Law Review
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2011
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Book Reviews
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Law and History Review
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2011
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Retribution and the Experience of Punishment
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California Law Review
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2010
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Valuing Intellectual Property: An Experiment
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Cornell Law Review
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2010
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Welfare as Happiness
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Georgetown Law Journal
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2010
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Happiness and Punishment
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University of Chicago Law Review
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2009
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Describing the Effect of Adaptation on Settlement
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Columbia Law Review Sidebar
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2009
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Hedonic Adaptation and the Settlement of Civil Lawsuits
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Columbia Law Review
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2008
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Spiritualism and Will(s) in the Age of Contract
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2008
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On the Legal Consequences of Sauces: Should Thomas Keller’s Recipes Be Per Se Copyrightable?
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Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
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2007
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Gaining/Losing Perspective on the Law, or Keeping Digital Evidence in Perspective
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University of Miami Law Review
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2004
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