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Transamerica v. Moniker Online: When domain registrars go bad

contributory infringement, citing the two-prong the control element pursuant to

Knock, knock!

Originally posted 2009-09-30 23:33:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMafia Wars.  (Or something Love Jozi didn’t merely create a diffusion line, which wouldn’t make much sense for just t-shirts anyway — they secretly created a counterfeit line.  Or so it seemed for a couple of years, until they finally revealed their marketing scheme to the press.  The [...]

Olympian irony

Originally posted 2007-12-03 14:23:31. Republished by Blog Post Promotersuddenly developed a taste for IP enforcement: Beijing is battling to stamp out illegal sales of 2008 Olympic merchandise on dozens of unauthorized Web sites seeking to cash in on the Chinese public’s Games fervor, local media reported on Monday. Authorities had investigated about 80 commercial and [...]

Don’t bother, they’re here

Originally posted 2009-06-19 08:07:21. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPresident Obama is suffering from the right-of-publicity blues again.  And now maybe we understand why he wants an intellectual property anti-counterfeiting lawyer on the Supreme Court — this could rise to the level of an international incident already, Jack! A blog called

Two Chinas policy

saying the least. In any case, you’d hardly expect these legislators to get too exercised about being “disrespected” that doesn’t even have legislators, and would, you’d think, have the lot of them shot if it weren’t so messy just right this now.  But you’d be wrong: In response, Shih said intellectual property rights (IPR) issues [...]

Man Bites Dog

Originally posted 2005-08-05 15:14:53. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe People’s Daily Online WE MUST ADHERE TO SOCIALISM AND PREVENT PEACEFUL EVOLUTION TOWARDS CAPITALISM.” Write me if you figure out exactly which way trademark infringement fits into that…

Ideological purity

Originally posted 2007-01-24 16:18:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter more here.

China fakes reform

Originally posted 2008-06-18 10:51:15. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOn the eve of the Beijing Olympics — which is nothing if not a branding, merchandising and licensing bonanza to which athletes are invited — a nervous Chinese government official writes in the Wall Street Journal that that the era of Chinese counterfeiting is about to end, [...]

Best of 2009: “Orange you glad you’re such mullahs?”

This was first posted on April 29, 2009: Pamela Chestek, a known insidious fruit-handler herself. Comments at the original post.

Blawg Review # 242

Welcome to Blawg Review.  Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point.  It has been that kind of year, it seems.  Nothing depressing about it, or it shouldn’t be.  That’s just life, and in particular that’s the way life feels at that dreary moment when you’re living it clustered around the [...]

More on international law and the Web

Originally posted 2005-09-07 12:31:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoteryahoo.com.cn) and the specific message containing information treated as a “state secret” to the IP address of his computer. More details from RSF here. Shi Tao was jailed because he e-mailed sensitive political information to be posted on dissident websites hosted outside China. His case is a [...]

China clamps down on the Net

Originally posted 2005-09-26 10:12:40. Republished by Blog Post Promoterwrites in the online Rocky Mountain News: After Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org)broke the story on Sept. 6, 2005, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang blandly replied that “To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law.” Indeed, Yahoo! is [...]