John Tehranian

Publications

• Controlling the Narrative: Copyright’s Derivative Rights Doctrine & Semiotic Disobedience in the Age of AI
  28 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 501 (2026) · Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law · 2026
• The Subject Strikes Back: Intellectual Property Law, Visual Pleasure, and Resistance in the Arts
  71 AM. U. L. REV. (2022) · American University Law Review · 2022
• Paternalism, Tolerance, and Acceptance: Modeling the Evolution of Equal Protection in the Constitutional Canon
  62 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1615 (2021) · William & Mary Law Review · 2021

• It'll Break Your Heart Every Time: Race, Romanticism and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Litigating Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
  46 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2018) · Hofstra Law Review · 2018
• Sex, Drones & Videotape: Rethinking Copyright’s Authorship-Fixation Conflation in the Age of Performance
  68 UC L.J. 1319 (2017) · UC Law Journal · 2017
• Playing Cowboys and Iranians: Selective Colorblindness and the Legal Construction of White Geographies
  86 U. COLO. L. REV. (2015) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2015
• Derivative Works 2.0: Reconsidering Transformative Use in the Age of Crowdsourced Creation
  109 NW. U. L. REV. 383 (2015) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2015
• Panel II: Critical Legal Activism and Netroots Movements
  31 CARDOZO ARTS & ENT. L.J. 624 (2013) · Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal · 2013
• Guantanamo's Greatest Hits: The Semiotics of Sound and the Protection of Performer Rights under the Lanham Act
  16 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 11 (2013) · Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law · 2013
• Towards a Critical IP Theory: Copyright, Consecration, and Control
  2012 BYU L. REV. 1233 (2012) · BYU Law Review · 2012
• Curbing Copyblight
  14 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 993 (2012) · Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law · 2012
• Parchment, Pixels, & Personhood: User Rights and the IP (Identity Politics) of IP (Intellectual Property)
  82 U. COLO. L. REV. 1 (2011) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2011

• The Last Minstrel Show - Racial Profiling, the War on Terrorism and the Mass Media
  Connecticut Law Review · 2009
• The Emperor Has No Copyright: Registration, Cultural Hierarchy, and the Myth of American Copyright Militancy
  24 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1399 (2009) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2009
• Introduction: Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap
  2007 UTAH L. REV. (2007) · Utah Law Review · 2007
• Compulsory Whiteness: Towards a Middle Eastern Legal Scholarship
  82 IND. L.J. (2007) · Indiana Law Journal · 2007
• The Secret Life of Legal Doctrine: The Divergent Evolution of Secondary Liability in Trademark and Copyright Law
  21 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1363 (2006) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2006
• Whither Copyright? Transformative Use, Free Speech, and an Intermediate Liability Proposal
  2005 BYU L. REV. 1201 (2005) · BYU Law Review · 2005
• Sanitizing Cyberspace: Obscenity, Miller,and the Future of Public Discourse on the Intemet
  11 J. INTELL. PROP. L. 1 (2003) · Journal of Intellectual Property Law · 2003
• Performing Whiteness: Naturalization Litigation and the Construction of Racial Identity in America
  109 YALE L.J. 817 (2000) · Yale Law Journal · 2000