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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/book_sections Part of the Intellectual Property Law Commons, and the Public Relations and Advertising Commons Recommended Citation John Tehranian & Mark Bartholomew, The Changing Landscape of Trademark Law in Tinseltown: From Debbie Does Dallas to The Hangover in Hollywood and the Law (Paul McDonald, Eric Hoyt & Emily Carman, eds., British Film Institute/Palgrave 2015) Mark Bartholomew & John Tehranian, Hollywood and the Law, 2015, BFI Publishing, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/Hollywood-and-the- Law/?K=9781844574773. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Contributions to Books by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Changing Landscape of Trademark Law in Tinseltown: From Debbie Does Dallas to The Hangover Mark Bartholomew and John Tehranian Hollywood both creates and borrows. This duality simultaneously implicates intellectual property law and the First Amendment. While movies, television shows, sound recordings, and video games constitute valuable pieces of intellectual property in and of themselves, they frequently make use of the intellectual property of others, often without authorization or payment.