David Roy Ellis
3233 East Bay Drive, Largo, Florida 33771
Telephone: 727-531-1111 Fax: 727-531-5088
Legal Links
Below are links to information about me and recently published articles.
 
http://www.lawyers.com/davidrellis/publications.jsp - A Primer on the Law of Intellectual Property - The Florida Bar Journal
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=27 - What You Need to Know About Copyright Law
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=28 - What You Need to Know About Trademark Law
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=29 - What You Need to Know About Trademark Dilution
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=25&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Florida "Apprentice"
Trumps Internet Cybersquatter In Domain Name Dispute
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=24&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 - What?s In A Name?  Florida Enacts A Trademark Act For The 21st Century
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=17 - The File-Sharing Wars: National Nine Nix Nifty
Non-Napster Networks
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18 - Seeing Red: Native Americans Win An Appeal In Ongoing Effort To Cancel Washington Redskins Trademark Registrations
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15 - A Model Opinion - Federal Appeals Court Rules That State Right of Publicity Is Not Preempted by Federal Copyright Law
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=16 - Court Rules That Copyright Act Preempts Software Licensor's Conversion and Unjust Enrichment Claims under State Law
 
http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14 - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Noncommercial Use of a Trademark as a Domain Name Is Not Infringement under the U.S. Trademark (Lanham) Act
 
http://easl.info/print.php?sid=6 -  Ninth News: Nifty Non-Napster Networks Not Nixed - Music File Sharing Case
 
Speak No Evel:  Federal Appeals Court Rules That ESPN Did Not Defame Evel Knievel
 
A Case of Lasting Impression:  Supreme Court Rules on Trademark Fair Use
 
http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20040501%20EASL%20Newsletter.pdf - Four articles on intellectual property in the Florida Bar EASL Newsletter, May 2004 on Elvis, Napster, Dwight Eisenhower, and the Washington Redskins.
 
It?s Not Just Victoria?s Secret:  In a Case of Comparative Negligees the Supreme Court Clarifies Trademark Dilution Law
 
http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20020228+David+Ellis+Information+Highway+Article.htm - Thumbing along the Information Highway: Federal Appeals Court Rules Online Thumbnail Photos Are Fair Use but Not Full-sized Images
 
http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20020419%20David%20Ellis%20Smut%20in%20Cyberspace%20Article%20.pdf -  Smut in Cyberspace - The US Supreme Court Strikes Down Virtual Child Pornography Statute
 
http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20030701%20EASL%20Newsletter.pdf- Two articles from the Florida Bar EASL Newsletter, July 2003 - "It?s Not Just Victoria?s Secret: in a Case of Comparative Negligees the Supreme Court Clarifies Trademark Dilution Law, " pp. 10-11, and "The Court?s Gone Wild! - Keeping Abreast of Developments in Florida?s Publicity and Privacy Laws," pp. 12-13.
 
Seeing Red:  Native Americans Try - But Fail - To Cancel The Washington Redskins' Trademark Registrations
 
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cyjk6xn6.wlzlnrn6.67we5xn6.z5z7irn6.174&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stpetebar.com%2Fpdfs%2FParaclete_12-2003.pdf - Is it Now or Never? A Performer?s Right of Publicity May Endure Although He Has Left the Stage Forever - Article on page 8 of the Paraclete, St. Petersburg Bar Assn. Newsletter, December 2003.
 
The Injunction Done Gone: Federal Appeals Court Upholds "Gone with the Wind" Parody Fair Use Copyright Defense
 
http://www.stpetebar.com/pdfs/Paraclete_10-2003.pdf - Great Grokster! Nifty Non-Napster Networks Not Nixed - Article on page 13 of the Paraclete, St. Petersburg Bar Assn. Newsletter, October 2003.
 
Ninth Nixes Napster's Nifty Network

http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20010212+David+Ellis+Reverse+Domain+Hijackers+Article.htm  - Can You Be Master of Your Domain in a Web of Cybersquatters and Reverse Domain Hijackers?

http://www.computer.flabar.org/cybersquatting.html - New Anticybersquatting Law Can Make You Master of Your Domain

http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20010418+David+Ellis+Copyright+Term+Extension+Article.htm - Happy Birthday, Mickey! Federal Appeals Court Upholds the Constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act

http://www.clwbar.org/resipsa/jan99/copyright.html - Congress Enacts a Mickey Mouse Law and Legislation for the New Millennium

http://www.flabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/JNJournal01.nsf/76d28aa8f2ee03e185256aa9005d8d9a/aa6428166634d0eb85256adb005d6191?OpenDocument -  Cyberlaw and Computer Technology: A Primer on the Law of Intellectual Property Protection

http://www.computer.flabar.org/recent.html - Florida Enacts New Non-Compete Law

http://www.lawyers.com/davidrellis - David R. Ellis Web Page

http://www.acm.org/top/people/ellis.html - ACM Lectureship Biography

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=9 - Don't Play With Barbie, by Sharon Ellis, J.D.

 

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