Andrew Ventimiglia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1696181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Ventimiglia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ventimiglia |
| SIGNATURE | VENTIMIGLIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6244-4684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cross and CrownTM
Can religious organizations use American trademark law to assert control over the name of a religion? Further, what is the relationship between a religious organization as guarantor of fundamental spiritual truths and the signs by which it is known? To answer these questions, this article traces the history and role of trademarks in American religion with a focus on Christian Science's faith-branding strategy. This narrative explores the religiou…
Open Source Religion
From Father Roberto Busa’s innovative use of computing in the humanities to the Reverend John Ellison’s creation of the first electronic Bible concordance, religion and religious texts played a formative role in the development of data analytics. Yet the subsequent development of spiritual software and the management of religious data have been underexplored. The production, collection, and ownership of religious data—whether Bible translation, s…
VidAngel
This article traces a cultural history of the visual media filtering industry in the United States—from VHS tapes to internet filters to digital streaming platforms. Through an analysis of the company VidAngel, a video filtering start-up, and its recent copyright lawsuit brought by a group of major Hollywood film studios, we highlight the influential role that religion and copyright law, as interanimating forces, have played in the development of…
Deceptions Have Been Practiced”
This article explores early twentieth-century debates about wine regulation in order to understand how emerging food standards could be mobilized in order to produce and protect value around particular geographical locales. Ohio and Missouri winemakers sought to protect their practices of “amelioration,” or the addition of sugar and water to acidic or foxy wines, by establishing the regulatory designation of “Ohio and Missouri Wine” as separate f…
Demanding the Angels' Share
A Market in Prophecy
This article examines Worldwide Church of God v. Philadelphia Church of God, an influential case in which the plaintiff church sued a splinter sect for the unauthorized publication of one of its founder's prophetic works. In this case, both groups turned to legal rationales, either the maximalist claims of intellectual property rights or the protections afforded by fair use exemptions, to defend their religious actions. In doing so, I argue that …
Deceptions Have Been Practiced”
This article explores early twentieth-century debates about wine regulation in order to understand how emerging food standards could be mobilized in order to produce and protect value around particular geographical locales. Ohio and Missouri winemakers sought to protect their practices of “amelioration,” or the addition of sugar and water to acidic or foxy wines, by establishing the regulatory designation of “Ohio and Missouri Wine” as separate f…
VidAngel
This article traces a cultural history of the visual media filtering industry in the United States—from VHS tapes to internet filters to digital streaming platforms. Through an analysis of the company VidAngel, a video filtering start-up, and its recent copyright lawsuit brought by a group of major Hollywood film studios, we highlight the influential role that religion and copyright law, as interanimating forces, have played in the development of…
A Market in Prophecy
This article examines Worldwide Church of God v. Philadelphia Church of God, an influential case in which the plaintiff church sued a splinter sect for the unauthorized publication of one of its founder's prophetic works. In this case, both groups turned to legal rationales, either the maximalist claims of intellectual property rights or the protections afforded by fair use exemptions, to defend their religious actions. In doing so, I argue that …
Demanding the Angels' Share
VidAngel
This article traces a cultural history of the visual media filtering industry in the United States—from VHS tapes to internet filters to digital streaming platforms. Through an analysis of the company VidAngel, a video filtering start-up, and its recent copyright lawsuit brought by a group of major Hollywood film studios, we highlight the influential role that religion and copyright law, as interanimating forces, have played in the development of…
Deceptions Have Been Practiced”
This article explores early twentieth-century debates about wine regulation in order to understand how emerging food standards could be mobilized in order to produce and protect value around particular geographical locales. Ohio and Missouri winemakers sought to protect their practices of “amelioration,” or the addition of sugar and water to acidic or foxy wines, by establishing the regulatory designation of “Ohio and Missouri Wine” as separate f…
Open Source Religion
From Father Roberto Busa’s innovative use of computing in the humanities to the Reverend John Ellison’s creation of the first electronic Bible concordance, religion and religious texts played a formative role in the development of data analytics. Yet the subsequent development of spiritual software and the management of religious data have been underexplored. The production, collection, and ownership of religious data—whether Bible translation, s…
Cross and CrownTM
Can religious organizations use American trademark law to assert control over the name of a religion? Further, what is the relationship between a religious organization as guarantor of fundamental spiritual truths and the signs by which it is known? To answer these questions, this article traces the history and role of trademarks in American religion with a focus on Christian Science's faith-branding strategy. This narrative explores the religiou…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Intellectual property (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (2 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (2 works)