Love is blue. Litigation is love. Litigation is war. Love is war. War is Blue.
Ron ColemanThe fallacy, of course, is not only in affirming the consequent plus no small amount of equivocation, but in the probable falsehood of the second link in the chain to…
Attorney fights right of publicity fight… and then some.
Overlawyered follows the continued adventures of media avenger attorney Jack Thompson who is acheiving cult-like notoriety among the very segments he seeks to protect: Jack Thompson, the Florida lawyer with…
Not quite dead
The Google / Kinderstart suit was dismissed, with leave given to amend, in August. What sounds like oral argument regarding the amended complaint is being reported by Reuters. It doesn’t…
Viral marketing and trademark control
Instapundit links to a case of viral marketing gone bad. Trademark owners must realize — or they will after this one plays out — that the trademark genie does not…
Stolen post.
Is Counterfeit Chic the best soft IP blog out there? It might be. Susan Scafidi blows me away, and this post — nicked per her instructions (we call that a…
Election Day Bloggers’ Legal Guide
Lauren Gelman sends along a link to the Election Day Bloggers’ Legal Guide.
Update on proposed New York anti-law-blog bill
Today’s New York Law Journal has an article on the proposed new regulations that would destroy the use of the Internet by lawyers, stating that most of the bar groups…
Unilateral copyright law
Eugene Volokh joins the pile–on regarding a website that claims to exempt its contents from the liberating effects of the fair use doctrine. The North Country Gazette, a publication whose…
China may roll back blog anonymity
I wrote a few weeks ago that perhaps the most compelling novelty of the power of the Internet is not the virtual absence of barriers to entry to the market…
Blawg Review is here!
Never mind where they said it would be. It’s here! It’s here! (And that’s why you can’t rely on Blogger.)
Bootlegs in the 21st century
Here a great post from aTypical Joe about how bootleg concert recordings — unauthorized, that is — have moved into the video realm via YouTube, and why performers can’t stand…
No, really do trust us. Eventually.
The Times, says Instapundit, admits maybe it shouldn’t have printed that story about the SWIFT financial tracking program after all. The one it divulged in July. So “professional journalism” means…
Keyword searching on the Jersey side, continued
Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog finds fault with a decision that came down today in the District of New Jersey concerning the use of trademarks (or “trademarks”) as…
Emerson InSinkErator trash compactors will mangle your hand if you stick it in one of them.
Originally posted 2006-10-19 13:44:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? The same thing will happen if you stick your hand into an Acme trash compactor.…