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Hannibal Travis

Florida International University College of Law

Professor of Law

11200 SW 8th St.

RDB Hall 1097

Miami, FL 33199

United States

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Opting Out of the Internet in the United States and the European Union: Copyright, Safe Harbors, and International Law

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 4, 2008, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-03
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 13 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 989 (14,993)
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YouTube, Dailymotion, Google Video, Google Book Search, Google Image Search, Google News, eBay, Amazon, Electronic Commerce, DMCA, Fair Use, Copyright, Berne, TRIPs, GATT, Freedom of Expression

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Google Book Search and Fair Use: Itunes for Authors, or Napster for Books?

University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 61, pp. 601-681, 2006
Posted: 28 Nov 2006
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 935 (18,137)
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Copyright, Fair, Sony, Arriba, Marketing, Search, Abridgement, Freedom, Speech, Google, Publishing, Book, Books, eBook, eBooks, Scan, Scanning, Antitrust, Digital, Peer, p2p, Napster, iTunes, MusicNet, Movielink, Amazon

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Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation

Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, Vol. 57, 2010, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 41-62
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2012
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 927 (19,319)

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Google, Copyright, Damages, Fair Use, Economics, Publishers, Book, Book Industry, Sales, Profits, Napster, Google Book Search Copyright Litigation, Google Book Search Class Action, Google Book Search Copyright Settlement

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Wi-Fi Everywhere: Universal Broadband Access as Antitrust and Telecommunications Policy

American University Law Review, Vol. 55, pp. 1697-1800, August 2006
Number of pages: 104 Posted: 22 May 2006
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 647 (32,722)
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Internet, Broadband, Wireless, Wifi, Wi-Fi, Antitrust, Telecommunications, Verizon, Trinko, Brand X, Missouri, Municipal, Carrier, Access, Facilities, Essential, Bell, Bellsouth, Atlantic, AT&T, DSL, cable

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Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda for Copyright Reform

Pepperdine Law Review, vol. 33, pp. 761-829
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 Dec 2005
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 644 (32,335)
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Copyright, First Amendment, Internet, cyberspace, digital, library, libraries, fair use, Grokster, Aimster, originality, registration, recordation, Google, Archive, Gutenberg, Congress, Supreme

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'Native Christians Massacred': The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians During World War I

Genocide Studies and Prevention, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 327, December 2006
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 08 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2012
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 611 (29,696)
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Genocide, Iraq, Turkey, Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Kurd, Kurdish, Iran, Persia, Religion, Torture, Asylum, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Nestorian, Syria, Syrian, Syriac, Armenia, Greece, Greek, international, reparations

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Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 35, p. 1519, 2007, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-09
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 565 (35,280)
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First Amendment, free, speech, blogs, ebooks, trademark, copyright, neutrality, broadband, fair, use, Lanham, Google, Microsoft, cybersquatting, fairness, dilution

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The Principles of the Law of Software Contracts: At Odds with Copyright, Consumers, and European Law?

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 84, 2010, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-01
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2012
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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Contracts, Licensing, Preemption, Copyright, Fair Use, Reverse Engineering, Software, Programs, Applications, Microsoft, Google, HTC, Motorola, Apple, Dell, HP, Compaq, Consumers, Arbitration, Distance Selling, Database Directive, Software Directive, Unfair Terms Directive, Europe, European

9.

Freedom or Theocracy? Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq

Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights, Vol. 3, No. 4, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Jul 2005
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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Human rights, human, rights, Afghanistan, Iraq, war, theocracy, Taliban, Saddam, Hussein, freedom, constitution, constitutions, constitutional, constitutionalism

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The Future According to Google: Technology Policy from the Standpoint of America's Fastest-Growing Technology Company

Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, 2009
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 444 (52,885)

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Google, YouTube, Internet, cyberspace, Trademark, freedom, First Amendment, advertising, eBay, Fair Use, Copyright, Freedom of Expression

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Genocide in Sudan: The Role of Oil Exploration and the Entitlement of the Victims to Reparations

Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2008, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-05
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 20 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2014
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 417 (55,084)

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Sudan, Darfur, Nuba, Dinka, Masalit, Fur, Zaghawa, genocide, Security Council, China National Petroleum Corp., Talisman Energy, Chevron, oil, International Court of Justice, Alien Tort Claims Act, Torture Victims Protection Act, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Tribunal

12.

Wargaming the 'Arab Spring': Predicting Likely Outcomes and Planning U.N. Responses

Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 45, 2012, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-07
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 19 May 2012 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2015
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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United Nations, International Criminal Court, crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, aggression, human rights, democracy, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, ICC, UN

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The Cultural and Intellectual Property Interests of the Indigenous Peoples of Turkey and Iraq

Texas Weleyan Law Review, Vol. 15, p. 601, 2009
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 09 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2010
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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Indigenous, cultural, intellectual, copyright, archaeology, religion, freedom, armed conflict, minorities, language, international law, human rights

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Pirates of the Information Infrastructure: Blackstonian Copyright and the First Amendment

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 777, 2000
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 15 Jul 2005
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 244 (104,100)
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Internet, copyright, first amendment, originalism, Blackstone, DMCA, UCITA, Grokster, Napster, Sony, Microsoft, Intel, Locke, Hobbes, Madison, Jefferson

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On the Original Understanding of the Crime of Genocide

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, Spring 2012, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1975137
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2014
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 243 (90,062)

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genocide, originalism, international law, travaux, definitionalism, Sudan, Darfur, Bosnia, Srebrenica, Rwanda, Cambodia, Kosovo, Armenia, Turkey, Cyprus, Biafra, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Japan, China, Taiwan, Tibet, Soviet Union, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Syria

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YouTube from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Tyrannize Locally, Censor Globally

Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-10
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2012
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 228 (102,831)

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YouTube, Google, censorship, Europe, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Honduras, Thailand, Turkey, filtering, proxies, refugees, DailyMotion

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The FCC's New Theory of the First Amendment

Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 51, p. 101, 2011, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1698091
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 26 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2014
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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FCC, BitTorrent, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Viacom, CBS, NBC, ABC, Disney, First Amendment, Constitution, free speech, free press, freedom, Media, Television, Internet, Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Telecommunications Law

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Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan

GENOCIDE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, IRAQ, AND SUDAN, Carolina Academic Press, 2010
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Apr 2011
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 197 (78,613)

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Genocide, Treaties, United Nations, Iraq, Sudan, Ottoman Empire, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Kurds, Turkey, Persecution, Extermination, World War I, Cold War, Reparations

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On the Existence of National Identity Before 'Imagined Communities': The Example of the Assyrians of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 18 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2011
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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Assyrians, Greeks, Persians, Sassanians, Kurds, Mandaeans, Yezidis, Herodotus, Strabo, Posidonius, Ptolemy, Ammianus, Lucian, Tatian, Cassius Dio

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The Battle for Mindshare: The Emerging Consensus that the First Amendment Protects Corporate Criticism and Parody on the Internet

Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2005
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 20 Apr 2007
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 176 (138,279)

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Internet, Trademark, Dilution, Cybersquatting, parody, cyberspace, anti-cybersquatting, confusion, tort, corporations, freedom, speech, freedom of speech, First, Amendment, First Amendment, politics, efficiency, economics, advertising

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Myths of the Internet as the Death of Old Media

43 American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, 2015
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2015
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 158 (119,824)

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Internet freedom, criminalization, copyright reform, Internet Policy Task Force, Department of Commerce, streaming, file-sharing, peer-to-peer technologies, YouTube, Megaupload, First Amendment, vagueness, overbreadth, Fifth Amendment, vague laws

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Postmodern Censorship of Pacifist Content on Television and the Internet

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2011, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1809103
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Apr 2011
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 115 (208,340)

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First Amendment, Censorship, Postmodernism, Pacifism, Freedom, Liberty, Television, Internet, News, Journalism, Web

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WIPO and the American Constitution: Thoughts on a New Treaty Relating to Actors and Musicians

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Vol. 16 (2014), Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-09
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2014
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Downloads 88 (145,885)

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World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, audiovisual, performances, treaty, WCT, WPPT, phonograms, fixation, unfixed, authorship, copyright, fair use, First Amendment, Due Process, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, eBay, Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo!, Flava, SOPA, moral rights

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After Regime Change: United States Law and Policy Regarding Iraqi Refugees, 2003-2008

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 55, p. 1007, 2008
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Apr 2011
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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Iraq, refugees, torture, persecution, extermination, genocide, sectarian violence, Baath, United Nations, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Yezidis, Mandaeans, Shabaks

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Reparations for Mass Atrocities as a Path to Peace: After Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Can Victims Seek Relief at the International Criminal Court?

Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, 2014
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 02 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2015
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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originalism, genocide, crimes against humanity, slavery, extermination, persecution, torture, deportation, war crimes, law of nations, international law, Alien Tort Statute, Judiciary Act (United States), Kiobel, Samantar, Alvarez-Machain, Altmann, Sarei, Unocal, In re September 11th Litigation

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Patent Alienability and Its Discontents

Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, Vol. 17, 2014, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-23
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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patents, patent reform, Innovation Act, NPEs, non-practicing entities, PTO, America Invents Act, AIA, economics of property rights, economics of licensing, economics of R&D, research and development

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The United Nations and Genocide Prevention: The Problem of Racial and Religious Bias

Genocide Studies International, 8(2) (2014), pp. 122-152
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 02 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2015
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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genocide, United Nations, Arab League, Sudan, Darfur, Turkey, Kurds, Iraq, Yezidis, Assyrians, South Sudan, Dinka, Nuba, Nuba-mountains, Uighurs

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Counter-IP Conspiracies: Patent Alienability and the Sherman Antitrust Act

University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 71, 2017, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 30 Aug 2017
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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Free Speech Institutions and Fair Use of Copyrighted Work: A New Agenda for Copyright Reform

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2016
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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K11, K21, K42, O33, O34, F02

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The Economics of Book Digitization and the Google Books Litigation

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
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copyright, fair use, digitization, publishing, books, novels, markets, potential market, infringement, file sharing, peer-to-peer, economics, sampling, databases