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Pleasure to introduce three of americas leading trademark scholars, joining us today to understand the arguments you have just heard. Rebecca is the stanchion professor of the First Harvard Amendment Law school, file filing the brief of trademark scholars in the booking. Com case. Margaret duncan filed a brief in the in support of the respondents in booking. Com and she is the adjunct professor out of the Chicago School of law and she filed a brief on behalf of the intellectual Property Law Association of chicago, where she is vice chair of the amicus committee. Karin is the legal director of the Electronic Frontier foundation, filing a brief in support of the petitioner in booking. Com. Corinne,margaret, thank you to all of you for joining. Thank you. Wonderful. Lets begin with you. Congratulations, your brief was. Ited several times before delving into the but dots in the brief, tell us what this case was about. What were the main legal arguments on both sides . What are the stakes i
The constitution did not go beyond. So about these suits, generally, just broadly, and then were going to look at one in particular here. It is important to recognize everything was on the line here. Black plaintiffs directed these suits, okay . They planned these suits. William h. Williams was one of the most notorious slave owners. He owned the yellow house. It was sometimes called a slave pen. We looked at one case, the film we checked out the other day, and that one was similar in that george Millers Tavern was a slave. He is by the 17 and the single largest slaved jail on the city of washington and its called the yellow house. And james ash was taken there and held there and well see why in just a second in 1839. A few months later a man named solomon northrup was taken to the yellow house. He was the star of 12 years a slave. And solomon who was kidnapped and taken to be sold to louisiana and to the southeast, can he was taken to the yellow house after he was kidnapped, and he wr